I've wanted to have local image and video hosting for a long time, this came at the right time. I saw the video on my YouTube front-page yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. Absolutely amazing project, my hat's off to the creator
Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
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Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#112The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resume…
It's very impressive, particularly if you remember waking up to a failed download from the night before over dial-up.
I remember redownloading Liero over and over again and failing. And then cherishing it once getting a successful download. It would barely fail to fit into a floppy.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#113The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resume…
It would be even more impressive if he rebooted the server in the meantime.
NNCP supports that.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's very impressive, particularly if you remember waking up to a failed download from the night before over dial-up.
I remember redownloading Liero over and over again and failing. And then cherishing it once getting a successful download. It would barely fail to fit into a floppy.
Amateur. Use Flashget or Netants which download the file in 8 simultaneous chunks. I used to cheer the threads on last legs of a whopping 5m download. I hated servers which dont allow resume or even report file size.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#115As someone who has tried and failed to upload 2gb files on mobile data, only for the upload to fail at the last minute, this genuinely makes me want to play with it. There aren’t a lot of good drop-in solutions like this.
FTP/SFTP support resuming file uploads
'rsync' used via a terminal emulator like Termux or Android's own Linux VM is also good for resuming partial file transfers.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't this work great (albeit huge overkill) for the extremely common problem of trying to get files from one device to another (especially when one of those devices is a phone)? I see tools that are supposed to do that posted to HN all the time, with the comments usually pointing out one or another problem with any given utility. This seems like it would be pretty great s…
I have been having a lot of luck with Blip[0] recently regarding phone laptop file transfer. My biggest issue so far is that it does support iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows ... but not Linux. [0] https://blip.net/
Try https://payload.app/
Resumable, can queue, send directories, drag & drop, LAN (without account) & WAN (hybrid p2p), all transfers + metadata are e2ee. Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android.
Disclaimer: I’m the creator
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#117I use this as a music player for my ancient ipad in my kitchen. It’s ugly but nothing else worked; the dev even changed it a bit to help me out
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#118I use this as a music player for my ancient ipad in my kitchen. It’s ugly but nothing else worked; the dev even changed it a bit to help me out
I remember the horror I had to go through to upload my ripped dvds to iPad for kids to watch. We had to setup an http server for the vlc to download the files to its data storage
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recall we had special apps to queue and schedule our downloads, and resume them where servers supported it. They were a dream compared to the boredom of staring at progress bars.
Anyone remember DAP, Download Accelerator Plus? The colorful bars were nice. A part of my childhood, downloading shareware Windows games through dial-up.
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#120This is awesome. The readme is fun as heck and I just want to use the software based on that. I see nothing but complaints about nextcloud and others on r/selfhosted. I can't wait to try this out.
Thanks for the tip, I really did enjoy my scroll of the readme. This bit here really tickled me and set expectations so well: > inverse linux philosophy -- do all the things, and do an okay job
It even plays freaking chiptunes lol
Seriously considering replacing my navidrome/subsonic service and try my music library trough this. I used to play music straight from the directory tree a long time ago anyway, this might feel right at home.