In this post a week and a half ago I conjectured that the bottleneck of my music streaming service on my Android app was the NAS, but after finally digging through the logs, I discovered this wee bit:
2020-04-04 14:09:56 [admin] (play/index) -> Playing file (/media/music/Faith No More/Sol Invictus/08 Motherfucker.m4a}...
2020-04-04 14:09:56 [admin] (play/index) -> Media type {m4a}
2020-04-04 14:09:56 [admin] (play/index) -> Transcoding is not enabled for this media type. Valid types: {["native"]}
Turns out the problem was the transcoding of m4a files. All I had to do was add this line to the config:
transcode_m4a = required
And voila—no more hiccups. Like scratching a months-old itch at last.
As you can see above, I tried roasting my own coffee beans for the first time. I bought that Air Crazy popcorn popper years ago based on some things I read on the interwebs about being an adequate device for the purpose, but then I discovered that the only real way to get green beans at the time was to by in enormous bulk quantities or sign up for some inscrutable membership club and follow all kinds of arcane rules so I just gave up.
Meanwhile, the box traveled from apartment to apartment unopened. While checking in on a friend, I was made aware of this site that sells small quantities of the unroasted stuff. Amazeballs! The coffee world had transformed before my very eyes. Anyway, the first roast wasn’t so bad (though I’m probably not getting the best of it with my French Press, which is why I’ve ordered some new brewing supplies—more on that in a later post). Not having done sufficient research I learned that you should have a proper cooling system for the beans so for the next batch I’ve hacked together something (more on that in a later post as well).
The coffee, incidentally, is from my late abuelita-in-law’s home region. I haven’t had a chance to visit that area, but I was lucky enough to have met her and had the chance to make tamales under her guidance. I’ll have to post a drawing I made of her one of these days.