What app/program do you wish existed and what does it do that you've not found elsewhere?
I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.
I really want an all-in-one android app that just let me connect 2 portable ssds (via a usb hub) and then make a list of hashes for the folder structure and file names along with the hashes, all on a single sor of "index" file and I can run a "verify" function like every so often (like maybe once a week?) to check if there are any decay, also copy everything to the 2nd drive, and then run the verify to check if its done correctly, and correct any file corruptions.
Like its a very ghetto way to doing a NAS on a budget, but its just a $50 spare android phone connected to a usb hub with the power connected, and a bunch of drives attached.
I can run hash checks manually with some F-Droid apps, and keep the hashes on a file, but there us no way to automate this.
An app that can fix audio in movies to make dialog easier to hear and understand.
It's called subtitles 😅
A program that allows me to search through a large drive and see if there are any duplicates of congruent files on them, even if those files have different names but are otherwise identical, i.e. copies elsewhere on the drive.
If you search for "find duplicate files
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" there seem to be some options...An app for Android (Google TV) that lets you change the volume on a per-application basis. Like a mixer. I want to be able to set Disney+ to 200%, Netflix to 130% and Youtube to 80%.
If you're using Samsung, check out Soundassistant from Goodlock.
No Samsung. I want this for my Google Streamer.
I really want an app that locally indexes my locally stored photos and lets me search them locally, based on places, things or people seen in the photo.
Digikam
No search by "thing" without manually tagging though
Immich lets you do this
https://immich.app/docs/features/searching/
For example here's me searching for "forest". But it also supports looking for people (even multiple people in the same image), places, dates, or combinations of all of them. It'll also look for text in images. The link has more examples
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
That exists. Weather on the way.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-on-the-way/id1471394318
Media server software that lets me program my own television station.
5:00 PM - Play the next file from folder X.
6:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Y.
7:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Z.
8:00 PM - Play random movie.
Have you tried ErsatzTV? It's selfhostable, pretty extensible, can be integrated into on-demand solutions like Jellyfin...
Ersatz is this brilliant self hosted IPTV server that can do this. Any client (even a browser or your smart tv) can run it. Setting up the channels are a bit clunky but it’s well documented
https://ersatztv.org/ Your Personal IPTV Server | ErsatzTV
VLC (Video LAN Client) probably has a plugin for this. It was designed to stream video across networks.
That is like a 10 line bash script? Well maybe a little more but not much. Start here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/at
Setting up something like a cron job is trivial, getting it to stream files from a particular folder, on a channel I can access on demand, is the trick.
Ideally I want to be able to change the input on my television, any time I want, to my personal streaming channel which is constantly running the schedule I've defined.
I once thought it would be cool to have a program you could feed a photo of an evil boss's or slimy politician's face, from which it would then create a little cartoon character. That you could subject to various simulated tortures. Throw knives at it, lower it into boiling oil, draw and quarter, etc. Would probably be a hit in some offices.
There's been a lot that I've been looking for but I've never been able to find. Here are the one's that I can remember off the top of my head.
The first, which doesn't need to be an app/program, is something that would allow me to get more use out of Flathub. I've been wanting to get more use out of Flathub but the biggest problem I have with Flathub, is that there is no reliable way to discover new apps. The reason for this is because of how the website sorts its apps. They seem to be sorted either randomly or by popularity, as the order changes occasionally, and it mixes new apps in with the old apps. What I've been doing is using a chart to keep track of what apps I've seen but I have no idea of how reliable this actually is.
The second, I've mentioned before on another post, is a companion app for GameFAQs that's similar to Anime Plus. If you're not familiar with Anime Plus, it's a website that works as companion app for MyAnimeList. It looks at your MAL profile and generates a temporary profile that offers a few useful features like a list of anime/manga that you've missed and recommendations for other anime/manga.
The last one that I can remember, is a reliable gamepad mapper app for android devices that doesn't require root. I've tried multiple gamepad mapper apps but none of them worked properly and I'm pretty sure that some of them contained malware, especially given the fact that they've been removed from the Google Play Store.
A service or a website to find other websites. Search engine nowadays uses sentences, but why can't we use tags and filters?
Google and duckduckgo may give 4 HUGE websites, but nothing more than that. Why can't I just see all the unique different services all listed up?
An app that exports all the events (title, date, time, url link) from my newsletter email inbox. Bonus points for same but for Instagram. I vibe coded something but gave up... For now.
Just use rss
Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.
Winamp used to do this.
WACUP should too then:
Modern winamp fork of sorts.
Quodlibet has a Random Album Playback plugin
Digimon.
I have to carry my phone with me everywhere I go, I want a little guy that is personal and unique to me, it gets points for stuff I do, and them I can battle with other people who have their own little guys.
Pokémon go doesn't cut it for me, the battle isn't Pokemon. The games are great but it's me playing the guy not me being the guy.
I have the whole thing on paper but learning the programming to make it is discouraging and I'm already in college and writing full time
So, kinda like Pou, but with PvP?
Yeah. I even wanted to include an account based scanner for loot. You'd be able to scan barcodes and qr to get loot, battles, and stuff, but after the first scan it would remember and lock that reward so you could reclaim it daily.
I imagined players keeping little collections of barcodes so you could easily reclaim useful loot and when players meet in the wild they could scan up each others collections to get codes they may hot have found in the wild.
Sort of reminds me of Habbie
Yeah, but with a unique leveling system and PvP.
I would be ecstatic if someone ported AutoHotkey to Linux. AutoKey doesn't come close to cutting it for me.
Check out pyautogui, it's probably what you're looking for. You can manipulate the mouse and keyboard and even look for images contained on the screen.
Interesting. I use Autokey daily. By the minute even. I'll have to research what I'm missing.
The only thing I've ever really wanted that didn't used to exist was an app that could identify things visually. So you find a bug or a bird or an object and snap a photo, and it tells you what it is instead of having to ask real people.
This is now possible and is getting better all the time. But I still haven't seen an all invlusive app for everything? Like there's one specifically for bugs. Another specifically for birds. Saw one that specifically was for identifying your dog's breed. Haven't seen one that is universal and can identify everything in an image at once.
Ideally, this would just be a feature of things like Google Lens. Like I could just open the camera, set it to ID mode, and just point it at the thing I am looking at and have it tell me what it is and not just find images similar to it.
Obsidentify is that thing for nature related searches.
i've seen commercials of Gemini doing this. not sure how accurate it is realistically...
Gemini itself sucks for pretty much everything. The non-AI assistant that preceeded it did a much better job, IMO. Though, it didn't have item recognition capabilities at all out side of music. It feels like it's just a language bot being forced to do things it wasn't designed for, so you ask it what a thing is and it just spits out text that seems normal but is also completely wrong.
The general "thing" recognition is better on my Quest 3's room scanning function. But it's not meant for telling you what things are, just for making furniture in real space appear in virtual space too 🤷♂️
Seek and iNaturalist is for all animals and plants. They use your photos to track data about the species you take pictures of, mostly just where you found them. It also keeps track of all of the species you've found and gives you challenges to find certain species depending on where you are in the world. If the AI fails to identify something, your photo can be peer reviewed by other users.
Drop-in cloud/API replacement for YouTube front-ends. It would keep track of watch history and return recommended videos from an algorithm that's user configurable
LDAP? It what AD is based on, at least originally. I haven't looked at either in 10+ years.
- Something to use in place of Microsoft Active Directory, but FOSS
We're using samba pretty well. I'm hoping it'll stay awesome.
Might exist, or maybe there's some API that I can utilize in which case I could script it. I've done a very cursory search but nothing stood out.
I would love something that would grab x most popular songs from an artist/genre/year range that I have in my music library and create a playlist file. For if I'm just feeling like some "greatest hits" style music. And I don't want an LLM involved.
This software probably already exits but I have been trying to make 3D panoramas. My current workflow is to take the 3D left-right images and separate them into left images and right images using a bash script. Then use Hugin to make two panoramas and combine them with gimp. It's kind of a pain. It would be nice hugin cloud just the 3D images and do it all for me.
Kind of reminds me of Goblin Valley. I don't think it is. Too green and rocks are the wrong color. But first thing that came to mind.
GPS app that gave more control over routing. You can use waypoints, but the ETA is based on the waypoint instead of destination, and you have to manually continue navigation once you reach the waypoint.
Have you tried Magic Earth, i seem to remember it being quite robus for that but ymmv
I have not. May need to take a look.
There's The Eternal Jukebox which does pretty much exactly what you're looking for, unfortunately it doesn't seem to be well-maintained and doesn't work so well any more.
Very cool altho I want an app that i can have and also that can export the loop so i can use it wherever
It does seem to work in Firefox on my phone if that helps at all.
Recommendation algorithm/engine for self hosted media server. If someone knows where I can get a large amount of watch data for a large amount of people I could write such a thing.
I have 2 years tautulli logs for a plex server of 10 users. Only has 3-4 users regularly watch stuff and 90% is my kids watching that same thing over and over, hahhaha. Maybe one day I’ll find good use of the data.
I would probably try implement Netflix's algorithm which is essentially finding what u haven't seen that has been seen by people who watch things similar to what u watch. Essentially just heigh dimensional embedding and some clustering. So u would want at least 1000 (absolute bare minimum) users.
Data is only really usefull in the context of all other users. So 3-4 users of data on their own don't really give any useful insights.
Anyone suggest a decent FOSS CAD program good for designing 3d prints? IDK if there is one.
The only 2 I know are FreeCAD and OpenCAD, neither quite "good", just passable, I guess
I want a something like a custom radio station that combines my music playlists and podcasts with local and world news, maybe have it read news using some nice ai voice if it has to be trendy
I'm willing to pay for this to help local news businesses stay afloat
I'm looking for an app (on Android) that not only keeps track of birthdays, but also lets you add an extra date if that person has passed away. So it will display someone's age correctly instead of just counting on. And give reminders of both their birth- and their dying day. If it exists, please let me know...