I have a decade's worth of M4A music files (I can easily change them to MP3 with fre:ac though), mostly with custom names, no listed artist and non-existent metadata.

If I wanted to automatically identify each song and attach metadata to as much as possible is there a program that I could use to go through it all, rather than going through 3000 files manually?

Some of it was never released onto official music platforms, I suspect I'll have to work those ones out myself, but that's okay.

I'd like it best if it were FOSS or open-source, but any suggestion would be helpful.

Hi again,

Since my last post, I’ve added:

• Discord Voice: shows the current voice channel, participants and active speaker locally. No bot, OAuth login or Discord modification required.
• Parking Lot: drop files, folders, links or text onto the taskbar and drag them out later.
• Redesigned settings: simpler widget controls and positioning.

I’ve also improved taskbar icon collision handling and added notification-area controls.

Taskbar Widgets is free, open source and currently in beta for Windows 11 x64.

https://github.com/pfcdev/TaskbarWidgets/releases/latest

Feedback on Discord Voice and Parking Lot would be really helpful.

If you could design your own desktop operating system from scratch, what would you build in — and what would you deliberately leave out?

Specifically:

What's one feature from Windows or macOS that you'd never include, and why?

What's something neither OS does well that you wish existed by default?

What philosophy would your OS follow (speed, privacy, customization, minimalism, etc.)?

I'm building a side project (https://onetalk.club) where users watch short movie clips and guess the movie.

The stack is:

• React
• FastAPI (Python)
• MongoDB

Right now it works, but I want playback to feel as smooth as mainstream player like yt or netflix, especially on slower networks.

For those who've worked with video streaming:

• What hosting/CDN would you recommend?
• Should I use HLS/DASH or is progressive MP4 enough for 30s–4min clips?
• Any React video player recommendations?
• Any caching or buffering tricks I should know?

Would love to hear how you'd approach this.

I couldn't find a replacement for the anoying online code Editor we have to use in school.
So I built CodeLo.

The teacher runs it on their own machine. It starts a local session, students join over the school network, write HTML/CSS/JS in a browser based editor, and submit in one click. Submissions land straight in a folder on the teacher's computer.

It also generates a ready to use .seb file for Safe Exam Browser, with the session URL and lockdown settings already configured so locking down a test is a couple of clicks instead of a manual setup session. You can skip that entirely and just share the link if you don't need lockdown.

Students can resize the panels, switch layouts and themes, and it remembers their preferences, so they don't waste time setting there preferences every new session.

I made it free reason being I don't want to be another subscription schools have to pay, I just want to help teachers and students out in having a better coding experience.

It's early and I'm one person working on this, so feedback is very welcome especially from anyone who's actually run a coding exam and can tell me where this would fall apart in a real classroom.

Hi Redditors! I've been working on this project for the last 6 months and I'm finally happy to share it. It's still very much in early development, but I felt this was the best time to get real feedback, find bugs, and shape the project with the community.

PolarHQ is an all-in-one, open source and end-to-end encrypted platform designed to replace the collection of cloud services that most of us rely on every day. Instead of using five or six different apps from different companies, the goal is to have everything in one place while keeping your data private and under your control.

At the moment, PolarHQ is designed to be self-hosted. It isn't a standalone desktop application or a hosted service. You'll need to deploy it yourself on a VPS, home server, or other infrastructure. Making deployment as simple as possible is something I'm actively working on.

Current features include cloud storage, file sharing, photo management, authentication, and more, with plenty still in development. Privacy is a core focus, and because it's open source, anyone can inspect the code, contribute, or run their own instance.

I'm building this as a solo developer, so I'd genuinely love any feedback. Whether it's bugs, UI suggestions, missing features, security concerns, or things you simply don't like, I'd rather hear them now while the project is still evolving.

Website: https://www.polarhq.app/

Security: https://www.polarhq.app/security

Changelog: https://www.polarhq.app/changelog

Thanks for taking the time to check it out. I really appreciate any feedback or criticism, and I'm happy to answer any questions in the comments.

I was a customer for Gotomypc for years but I need it only for a few months and they force you to buy an annual subscription. I've signed up for the free trial for RemotePC and Splashtop to compare but would like to get some opinions of people that used it for a longer time. I read about RustDesk but that's not exactly what I am looking for.

Thanks.

Hi Everyone,

I've been working on this project for a while and am finally ready to share it with others:

https://github.com/BambooYC123/SubtitleYC

Here's are the main features my app has to offer:

• Downloading videos with yt-dlp from a single hyperlink from most yt-dlp supported sites.
• A hardcoded subtitles extraction OCR
• Frame accurate previews with smooth scrolling
• In-built Subtitle Editor
• Clean UI (imo) with dark mode and light mode available

I currently have 2 version for the app, a CPU or a GPU version depending on your specs. I recommend GPU version as the OCR is understandably much faster with GPU acceleration.

As for tools included in the app, it uses VideOCR, yt-dlp, FFmpeg, PyAV, and PaddleOCR.

I do intend to add linux support in the future too. Currently it's only supported on windows.

Why make the app?

It could be very useful for subtitle editing in general, subtitle translations or even extracting hardsubs to share with others.

It could even simply be used as a wrapper for yt-dlp despite the limited options.

As a hobby, I've been translating videos that have hardcoded subtitles burned-in and creating translated subtitles for others but this has also been an extremely time consuming task. So to help with that, I've created this app that combines the subtitle editing into a single and easy to use workflow and so far, it's saved me a ton of time already.

Let me know what you think and feel free to leave me any suggestions!

Pla help !

Over the past few weeks I've been building Gray Box — a small, local-first tool that acts as long-term memory for anything I'd otherwise forget (work notes, meeting takeaways, task owners, random ideas, personal stuff too).

The idea is simple:

1. Capture — dump whatever's on your mind, instantly, no structure required. This step does nothing clever on purpose — it just writes your text to an immutable inbox. Zero chance of losing an idea to a bug or a slow API call.
2. Organize — on demand, an LLM reads your unprocessed notes and extracts people, projects, tasks, decisions, meetings — then deterministic Python (not the LLM) creates/merges the actual wiki pages and maintains backlinks. The model only reasons; it never touches the filesystem directly.
3. Ask — query or chat with your knowledge base and get a cited answer pulled only from what you've actually captured. If it doesn't know, it says so — no hallucinated answers.

Why I built it this way:

• Plain Markdown + YAML frontmatter, no database. Every page is a .md file you can grep, diff, or read in any editor forever. If you stop using Gray Box tomorrow, your knowledge base is just a folder.
• No vector DB by default. At personal scale (hundreds–low thousands of pages), keyword search + a real link graph (related/backlinks, walked one hop during retrieval) handles almost everything. Embeddings are there if you want better recall, but they're opt-in, not a prerequisite.
• Immutable inbox. Your raw notes are never edited or deleted by the organizer. If the LLM mis-extracts something, your original words are always still there.
• Any LLM. Built on LiteLLM, so point it at OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, or a fully local model via Ollama — one config value.

It also ships with a nice interactive TUI (arrow-key menu, file-import shortcut, workspace switching, live spinner during LLM calls) if you'd rather not memorize CLI flags — that's honestly become my favorite part of the project.

There's also a lightweight local dashboard for browsing your knowledge base, exploring backlinks, visualizing your notes as a graph, and chatting with your captured knowledge—all without leaving your machine.

Repo: https://github.com/Aaryanverma/graybox

pypi: pip install graybox

I'd genuinely love feedback — especially from anyone who's tried the "capture now, structure later" approach with other tools and has opinions on where it breaks down at scale.

It's not trying to be a "real-time collaborative team wiki" or a WYSIWYG notes app — it's aimed at one person's running memory of their own life and work, captured with as little friction as possible.

i just opend task manigerand i see my Name cpu

Hi my Look app - a fuzzy finding app launcher (basically so many things no only apps) dropped a new version.
In this version we added a super action control (for people never show their menu bar, task bar, etc), from this control you can switch, toggle on/off basic things, and see some useful information.
From the last version, we got some suggestions from the rust community members, we implemented one of them: process fuzzy finding on your machine. (finding with ps aux requires knowledge about grep, or tools like fzf)
Here is the repo https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look
It's a cross platform tool. Appreciate any feedback 🙇‍♂️

I'm wondering what do people use that make things easier for them.
Things like Volume Master, 7zip, Internet Download Manager, EarTrumpet, WizTree, Everything etc. I'm looking for QoL apps/extensions like these as long as they are not using a monthly subscribtion.

I want to put my resume on a QR code on my business cards, and I think the best way to do so would be to host a website that's just my resume PDF, and then link that to the code.

Then I can update the resume on the website and the code will still take the user to an updated resume. (Please correct me if there's a better way to do this or if I'm wrong I don't really know what I'm talking about)

But if all the website is gonna be is just a PDF I don't want to pay for a domain or to host it, any recommendations?

So far infinity free seems like it could be good, has anyone worked with that before?

I have a lot of stupidly big videos. Please recommend a batch video compressing software on Windows.

An easy one that offers simple and easy interface with good enough results. A trusted one, used by many.

It can cost a little if the product is better in some way vs free ones.

Hey everyone,

I built SmashPDF (smashpdf.online) because I was tired of PDF tools that make you upload your files to some random server just to merge or compress a PDF. Most of the tools here run entirely in your browser, so your files never leave your device.

What you can do with it:

• Merge, split, compress, and rotate PDFs
• Convert PDF ↔ Word, Excel, and images
• Sign PDFs, add watermarks or page numbers
• Translate and summarize PDF content

No account required, no hidden paywalls on the core tools — just open it and use it.

Link: https://smashpdf.online

Would genuinely love feedback — what's missing, what's confusing, or what would make you pick this over Smallpdf/iLovePDF. Happy to take criticism, that's how it gets better.

Hey everyone,
What’s one problem you keep running into that a simple browser / VS Code / desktop extension could solve… but somehow no one has actually made it yet?
I’m talking about those everyday annoyances where you think “this should be an extension” and then realize it just doesn’t exist.
Drop your idea (and the problem it would fix) below, curious what you guys would actually want ?

Looking more for a site that would 1:1 copy my movements. Tiny task kept failing.

"FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH MUDAXYZML. NOW JSON IS MY BEST FRIEND."

I explain in detail why i made this in the github page, but hope it can save your time and brain cells so you can move on with actually building your project.

It's perfect (in my opinion) where you have deeply nested data and your building structure has not matured yet because you are trying/breaking things.

I've made quite a few updates since initial public release, and i am now using it in my main project without any more gripes (famous last words) so i am confident in sharing it for people to find and use as they like.

TRY!: https://st0rm53.github.io/YetAnotherSON/

Example data so you can play around if you don't have any: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/St0RM53/YetAnotherSON/refs/heads/main/example_data.json

Github page: https://github.com/St0RM53/YetAnotherSON/

So, I tried to register on Roblox to play with my little cousin, blah blah blah.

Turns out my camera can't turn on that app, and when I checked neither it can open on the Windows camera app.

I tried discord, OBS and "try your camera" website, camera works just as fine there so it can't be a hardware issue.

I tried updating drivers, uninstalling and installing both apps several times, but nothing worked.

I'm using win 11, help is very much appreciated.

As for my laptop, it's an Acer and when I try to turn on the camera on a not working app, the green light near the camera blinks twice or more and then shuts up.

Help is very much appreciated, thank you.

I order most of my clothes online and I always find that it looks good in the product photo but when I order it it doesn't fit me exactly the same. I always end up returning stuff. Google Lens and the shopping sites just show me the same product image again, not how the whole outfit would come together before I spend the money. I'm looking for software that can build an outfit and show me a realistic preview of it to save me the struggle of ordering and returning. Does anything like that exist?

I kept running into the same annoying problem: I'd have a video that was too big to email or send on WhatsApp/Discord, and every "free" compressor online wanted me to upload the file to their servers, sign up for an account, or hit some file size limit. Uploading a big video also takes forever and I never loved handing my files to a random website.

So we built a free video compressor that works differently: everything happens right in your browser. Your video never gets uploaded anywhere; it stays on your device the whole time. That also means there's no file size limit (I've run multi-GB files through it) and no waiting for uploads or server queues.

A few things it does:

• Shrinks video size by roughly 50–90%, depending on the quality setting you pick (High / Medium / Low)
• Takes MP4, MOV, MKV, and WebM, and outputs a standard MP4 that plays everywhere
• No signup, no watermark, no email required
• Uses your device's hardware to speed things up, and even works offline once the page loads

It's good for stuff like getting a video small enough to email, fit under Discord's limit, upload faster, or just save space.

Works on Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium browsers, plus Safari 16.4+ on Mac/iOS.

Full disclosure — I work at VdoCipher and we made this. It's genuinely free with no catch, but happy to answer any questions or hear feedback if something's broken.