I use FinAmp client with Jellyfin for music.

I agree the Jellyfin interface is not well optimized for music, but FinAmp negates most of that and my phone is how I mostly listen to music anyway.

I like Navidrone, but it’s a duplicate service that doesn’t really have a big value add over Jellyfin beyond the ability to share tracks with friends. A major feature upgrade, but not something I use terribly often.

And iOS app as well, though, it is in test flight

Off the top of my head:

• Paperless ( Digital filing cabinet, tagging is local LLM backed
• Immich (Google Photos replacement)
• Nextcloud (Replaces the rest of Google Cloud functionality)
• LubeLogger (Vehicle maintenance logger)
• Home Assistant (Home and other things automation)
• Jellyfin (Primary media server)
• Hoarder (Online bookmarking, tagging and summarizing service, Local LLM backed. I think this project has changed names)
• Audiobookshelf ( Does what it says on the tin. Audiobook server, kinda like audible but I can actually find the books I already own. )
• Navidrome (Not sure if I’m keeping this one. Like the features but it largely duplicates the music side of Jellyfin)
• Minecraft Server (Again, does what it says on the tin)

There are other services I run but those are the ones I use most often and can rattle off when I’m as tired as I am right now.

Might want to take another look at Jellyfin. My experience has been that as long as the video file s are at least somewhat reasonably named and organized, Jellyfin has no problems identifying a file and looking up its metadata.

Matrix would probably be one of the better options, but xmpp is a pretty good choice as well.

If I had to guess, never having used it myself, is that it has a decent UI that simplifies sometimes complicated operations and it has been around seemingly forever.

Text editors are a really personal choice and there are a million different ones. I use either Kate or Micro. Both are great for my use.

Depends on the application. My NAS is bare metal. That box does exactly one thing and one thing only, and it’s something that is trivial to setup and maintain.

Nextcloud is running in docker (AIO image) on bare metal (Proxmox OS) to balance performance with ease of maintenance. Backups go to the NAS.

Everything else is running on in a VM which makes backups and restores simpler for me.

Outside of the music industry, there really isn’t any monitzation path outside the mainstream paths. You might buy DVDs of anything you’re interested in, but other than that…. I don’t know of any legitimate DRM-free sources.

As for South Park in particular, my understanding is that they have been trying to cancel themselves for some time and failing. I think they’re probably good regardless.

I use Forgejo for my private git repos but in all honesty, it’s massive overkill for my needs.

From personal experience, depending on how old they are, use them as coasters.

With very few exceptions, consumer grade optical media is really only good for sharing files.

Back in the 2000’s I had been using them to store backups of files. Found out the hard way that that was not a suitable use for them when I had a hard drive fail. Disk rot is a bitch if you’re not expecting it.

That said, if you and your family still have CD players, you might think about making them mix CDs. It’s also possible to burn your archived movies or tv shows onto them in DVD or Video-CD formats. I expect most DVD players can still read the Video CD format.

TIL

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255103107?sortBy=rank

Amazon is easier to get the music from as long as you don’t have a subscription to their streaming service. Apple has a lot of hoops you need to jump through. See my comment in the root thread.

You’ll need a Windows or Mac computer with the iTunes software (NOT WEB), a CD burner and at least one blank CD. You also can’t have an Apple streaming subscription.

Once you’ve met the prerequisites, buy the album, download it to your computer using the iTunes software and burn it to a CD using the iTunes software. From there, rip the newly minted CD to whatever format you fancy.

That’s been the work flow since the beginning of iTunes and should still work. Admittedly, I haven’t tested it in more than 10 years.

As far as I know there isn’t a bypass available. Haven’t checked in a while though.

You may be able to simulate burning to a CD and burn to .iso instead, but I haven’t done that since Windows XP, so you’re on your own there.

Edit: forgot to add that you have to use the iTunes software to burn the CD.

I have 6 domain renewal notices sitting in my Spam folder now.

Another recent one has been notices supposedly from my email provider saying it’s time to renew. That one almost got me.

I really wish GPG signing of emails had actually taken off. Would have solved this type of problem completely.

Nowadays, Apple is only really big for digital music if you are (or were) already really deep in their ecosystem. Not sure I’ve heard of any devices that play nice with their DRM in a while and last I had looked (admittedly many years ago) they did not have a compatible app for Android.

Apple music was bigger back 15 or 20 years ago for digital downloads due in large part to the iPod, though I occasionally hear of some odd band or another that only releases their stuff on iTunes.

And since this is a linux community, as a heads up, iTunes is only marginally functional, last I heard, in linux. Apparently it can’t detect connected devices. You’ll probably need a Windows or Mac system to run iTunes if you want to go that route.

For CDs, Amazon, ebay, or discogs. Digital music I usually get from the artist’s webstore if possible, otherwise I’ll buy it from Amazon or BandCamp.

One heads up, Buying and downloading digital music from Amazon is a pain in the butt if you have an Amazon Music subscription. Easy and straightforward though without.

Apple music is also possible but you have to burn the tracks to CD using itunes to move it out of Apple’s ecosystem.

I also hear good things about Tidal but I’ve never used them.

Isn’t that basically SyncThing? I thought it was BitTorrent under the hood.

I tend to change volumes to bind mounts. Makes it easier to backup or move the service.

Might want to avoid using relative paths with bind mounts and declare the full path. It has caused me headaches before.

Thank you for your contributions!