I do believe I tried that but I’ll try again, thanks.

The only thing that sucks about it is some sites just flat out don’t work well. For example, in Librewolf I cannot login to my banks website. The site loads, but the login just hangs. Firefox it works immediately.

I think its possible to do, I just gave up too soon. To get approval from my wife it has to be better than Spotify, and even if I got it to work, it just won’t ever be better so I gave up for now.

Pretty much the only way I’ll be able to replace it is if it enshittifies a lot more. Like certain record labels dropping out or something along those lines. She wants to use 1 single app for all her music and podcasts and at the moment, that can’t be done well. Spotify has to do something dumb to Nerf its value proposition.

I’ve wanted to replace Spotify for years but have never been able to do it. Everyone here will suggest you just use Jellyfin, but that doesnt solve the discovery problem. My idea was basically using spot-dl to download playlist and add them to my music library. But it would always break after a few days and the metadata was always all messed up.

You actually want a cloudfare tunnel if youre going to do that. It protects your real IP. Hosting a fediverse instance will draw attention to your real IP eventually otherwise.

Does anyone have any recommendations for migrating their Plex library over to Jellyfin? One day I fully expect to migrate over but when I do i want my full watch/listen history to come with me.

What’s your hardware for your HTPC? Does hardware decoding work in Plex HTPC flatpak for you?

I don’t believe those tools download directly from Spotify. They use the Spotify api to gather the metadata then they download the files off YouTube.

As I’ve seen others say, probably what you want to do is download them off Tidal or Quboz. Those YouTube rips suck.

I use a Beelink with an N100. Runs PopOs. I use Plex HTPC on it. Hardware decoding isnt working at the moment but it plays everything fine except HDR content so I’m avoiding that at the moment. Pass through audio work perfectly. I also stream sports on it, play mini games and roms with my kids using Lutris, and Moonlight for the more demanding games.

I used to use Kodi/LibreElec on it but that was such a miserable experience. Constant crashing and (3 or 4 times per day) inconsistent glitchy audio passthrough. The plex integration does mostly work but would also occasionally crash resulting in my stuff not syncing back to the server for days. Playback worked perfectly though.

Is that working better now? Every time I’ve turned it on in the past, half my devices lose connection.

I think thats the case for most of us. But for some like myself, it does mean I have to do the monitoring myself now. I can’t complain it was a free service. But it did warn me about a renewal problem before the cert expired, so it was a useful service for me.

Do you have any more information on the waydroid android tv build? Very interested in that.

Probably just data hoarding downloading tons of content that will never get watched.

I mean, this place is filled with a bunch of missionaries asking if yove heard the good word of Linux on every Microsoft Windows post lol

It makes SSL certs insanely easy. $1 a year is worth it to me to not have to deal with self signed certs.

Buy an xyz domain for like $1. If you choose a domain that just 9 random numbers its super cheap.

So something like 123456789.xyz

Then setup a SWAG container with DNS challenge. Join vaultwarden into the same docker network as SWAG, then add an entry to your router to point to vaultwarden using a subdomain.

Smart playlists is why I haven’t moved to Jellyfin yet so I’ll give this a look.

It was a total game changer for me at least. Gone are the days of me spending an entire weekend day upgrading applications and eventually being scared to patch services. I also try things out I wouldn’t have. I can have thee service up in a few minutes

Speaking of wireguard, can anyone recommend a wireguard GUI client for desktop? I’m on PopOS and using the command line at the moment and the network manager doesnt allow adding wireguard.

Vikunja is great and I use it but I really wish that the search also searched the contents of a to do. I put massive amounts of notes on my todos.