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(1) Some audio is public domain / available using Internet Archive (example: Earl Nightingale's Strangest Secret)

(2) Some audio / music is copyrighted, so we may not be able to distribute it directly.

(3) The voice audio / affirmations are generated using text-to-speech - so the end-user would have their own customized voice audio files, which are specific to them.

Project #Affirmator

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Jonathan / JRO Mar 9

@bubacarrsowe Re: Users / #Cron - A challenge i'm having is that I am playing audio with mpv using cron. This requires the sound system (#PipeWire) be available. Somehow, I've got to figure out how to automatically login a user (I have the #Affirmator box set to restart every day), run mpv on a cron, and have access to the sound system.

Linux sound system has been kicking my ass :) So the only way I've got it working is by running it as root.

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Bubacarr Sowe Mar 9

@jrovu just being curious, what’s the #Affirmator project?

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Bubacarr Sowe Mar 9

@jrovu same here, I keep dodging systemd not because of all the drama about it 🤨, just has not taken the time to look into it. I guess you should be able to do it with cron. For the #Affirmator project, can each user not have their own cron setup if you don’t want to use root?

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Jonathan / JRO Mar 9

@bubacarrsowe Being honest, I have been avoiding digging into #Systemd - but I get the feeling that it's worth having fluency in.

On my #Affirmator project, I'm using `cron` (on root! dat's nasty!) to play audio files. But I'm thinking Systemd is on the horizon for that project... I wish there were a GUI editor for that...

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