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WGA Lays Out Costs Per Studio of Their $343 Million Increase to Contract (16 May 2023)
In a new chart, which can be viewed below, the WGA estimated how that $343 million breaks down on a studio-by-studio basis. It estimates that the proposed contract would cost Disney an additional $75 million, or less than 0.1% of its $82 billion annual revenue. It also estimates that Netflix would pay up an additional $68 million, or 0.2% of its $31.6 billion annual revenue.
I was curious about this too since I don't use large playlists, so I added all 3800 songs in my library to a playlist to see how Jellyfin handles that. Regarding the desktop apps, you can definitely feel the UI get sluggish. Playback seems fine though.
Jellyfin Media Player struggles to handle that many items on one page at a time and playlists don't support pagination, so opening this playlist takes five or so seconds (sometimes more). When adding a song to queue from a playlist, it queues the whole playlist and moves you to the song in the queue you wanted to play. If you shuffle, the song you pick will be the first in queue as expected. While the UI feels less responsive at first, jumping around the queue or song feels normal. Playback feels responsive to me. I did have trouble shuffling the playlist from the playlist tile without opening the playlist's page first. Not sure what that was about.
Feishin is similar in loading times, but the UI is more responsive with large lists. When jumping around a playlist, clicking another song in the queue still loads immediately, but clicking another song from the playlist page seems to create a new queue (even when not shuffling) and takes several seconds to load. I didn't think to test this on Jellyfin Media Player before I deleted the playlist, so this might be the case there too. This extra loading time when changing songs from the playlist's page is inconsistent though and seems to work as expected if you're jumping around a lot (might be a caching thing?).
Basically it takes a few seconds to load the playlist's page and another several seconds to load the initial queue, but otherwise playback seems to work well for me. Again, this is with 3800 songs; your mileage may vary, etc.
Regarding mobile: Symfonium does not (as far as I can tell) automatically pick up Jellyfin's playlists, so I have to manually import them from the app. This is just a click or two and you can import all your playlists at once. If you want to listen to music on both desktop and your phone and you make changes to the playlist, you'll have to push Symfonium's local version of the playlist to Jellyfin or replace Symfonium's local version with the remote version from Jellyfin. They don't automatically update between each other. Changes to the playlist cover do not seem to sync with those changes, so you'll have to click an extra couple buttons to update that too.
Symfonium's UI is the most responsive and loading the initial queue is immediate, but you still have to load the media from Jellyfin so it doesn't play instantly. If you have the music cached locally through Symfonium, it probably loads quicker.
Overall, you'll feel when a playlist has 3800 songs in it if you use the web player or Feishin, but Symfonium plays things handily. Syncing playlists is a little more involved with Symfonium, but overall it seems that (very) large playlists are usable with Jellyfin even if they make the UI sluggish at times and take a few seconds to queue up. Hope this helps!
+1 for Symfonium (I use Jellyfin as my backend instead of Navidrome). It's really customizable, actively developed, and well worth the few bucks that it costs.
I don't think this lends enough credit to how centralized the music industry is and the role that plays. If you want the world's music catalogue, you need contracts with like three companies. That level of centralization makes it straightforward to get a music catalogue going with basically everything someone might want to listen to, but it also severely hampers your ability to do anything those three companies don't want. If anyone's wondering why Spotify is pushing podcasts so hard, it's because that's the only way for them to get out from under the thumb of the few music megacorps that they have to license from to stay relevant. Spotify needs a revenue stream less dependent on the big three and it sees podcasts as its way out.
I'm sure music files being smaller and easier to pirate helped light a fire under the ass of the music industry to modernize, but that isn't the only factor at play here and I don't even think it's one of the main ones. If I recall correctly, Spotify is the company who went to the music labels asking for a contract. In order to show that the tech works, they had to pirate the initial catalogue until they had deals with music labels to license the music. Spotify brought their streaming vision to the music industry, not the other way around.
I believe Netflix had a good catalogue at first because every other company was sleeping on the streaming boom that Netflix was ahead of the curve on. Netflix could get good streaming license deals because nobody really cared about this little company they'd never heard of. As soon as everyone realized what was up, they scrambled to copy Netflix and pulled their libraries to fracture the streaming space.
From the start, the music industry knew what Spotify was and could be and knew how to use their leverage to keep themselves on top (Spotify isn't functionally allowed to be their own license for music creators, for example). I don't think the movie streaming space realized what Netflix was until it blew up.
I don't think the problem is that movie/tv hasn't "figured it out." The music space would be just as fractured if it wasn't as centrally organized. I think the problem is that the industries are just structured really differently, so they played out really differently.
To be clear, I'm not defending the music or movie/tv industry. I just think the situations are more nuanced than "music freaked out and got their shit together and movie/tv hasn't yet."
Few reasons. First, the United States is huge. Texas alone is twice the size of Germany. Second, the U.S. has three main power grids. The left half, the right half, and Texas. It's a little more complex than that, but the important part is that Texas is on its own. Third, Texas hates people. They let companies deregulate to hell and back, even at the expense of its residents.
The combination of being on its own power grid, deregulating that power grid and the companies that maintain it, and not taking proper precautions to protect its residents all leads to a less-than-reliable power grid when it gets hit with any non-standard weather. Texas especially needs to prepare for climate change, but things could definitely be going better…
Kopia actually has a GUI option too! I use it all the time! I pair it with a docker webdav server running on my server pc across the room.
I agree. Right now, websites maintain tracking infrastructure to build a profile of individual people as they move across the web. All of that comes down to one thing: targeted advertising. If companies had some way to know what types of ads to show users without tracking them, it would be way easier and cheaper. It would also be better for users since they wouldn't be invasively tracked all over the web. Privacy Sandbox seems to meet those goals. It does all the tracking locally and sends the end result (advertising topics of interest for this user) so the website knows what kinds of ads to show you without actually doing the tracking. This is a more privacy-focused way of doing targeted advertising for both websites and users. From what I can tell, it's a win-win. Most of the people I see complaining seem to hate it just because it's an advertising feature implemented by Google, but to me it seems unambiguously better than the current standard.
My go-to terminal text editor is micro. It's intuitive, has sensible controls (looking at you, ESC :qa!), and supports plugins for expanding functionality. It's the only terminal text editor I've used that does what I expect and I regularly use it instead of vscode. Nano is my backup and Vim is my enemy.
It's reductive, but still close enough if you don't know/interact with nonbinary or two-spirit people on a regular basis. At least to the extent of my understanding.
Most places in the world recognize two genders and their respective social roles: men and women. Some places recognize a third gender and its respective social and/or ceremonial role. This is the case for (some) North American Indigenous people, and two-spirit is a catch-all term to refer to a third gender role that they recognize.
It's hard to map onto the more standard two gender system that most of us are familiar with. When you think of men as the breadwinners and women as the child bearers, some cultures think of an additional distinct third gender with a designated social/ceremonial role.
But as you might have thought while reading that, men being the breadwinners and women being the child bearers is already a fairly outdated view of gender and social roles. Turns out social constructs are messier than they seem when you start to really analyze them and attempt to strictly define them.
TLDR: two-spirit is a catch-all term for a type of queer identity recognized by some North American Indigenous cultures.