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Cake day: January 27th, 2022

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  • You want beets to organize your music https://beets.io/

    You want to use the musicbrainz database

    And you want to scrobble your plays to listenbrainz.

    You will serve your music however you want. Navidrome is one of the best, you can’t go wrong.

    Navidrome does not take car eof tagging. You have to make sure your music is tagged properly. You can also use other software for it that uses beets under the hood. Someone shall chime in and suggest the best app for that as beets isn’t end user friendly.






  • Storage is cheap. You suggest combining the images and storing the difference.

    You can’t separate the images anymore. You have to store them in a container such that you have one common base image. You can then later on decide which image to look at.

    You could also take a short video and only display one image.

    Avif uses a video compression algorithm, meaning it’s basically one frame of a video.

    Btw, I wouldn’t care about your problem. Storage is cheap. Try saving 10 4k videos and you’ll laugh about your image library





  • I would’ve wished

    • don’t rush things into production.
    • dont offer a service to a friend without really knowing and having the experience to keep it up when needed.
    • dont make it your life. The services are there to help you, not to be your life.
    • use docker. Podman is not yet ready for mainstream, in my experience. When the services move to podman officially it’s time to move. Just because jellyfin offers official documentation for it, doesn’t mean it’ll work with podman (my experience)
    • just test all services with the base docker install. If something isn’t working, there may be a bug or two. Report if it is a bug. Hunt a bug down if you can. maybe it’s just something that isn’t documented (well enough) for a beginner.
    • start on your own machine before getting a server. A pi is enough for lightweight stuff but probably not for a fast and smooth experience with e.g. nextcloud.
    • backup.
    • search for help. If not available in a forum. ask for help. Dont waste many many hours if something isnt working. But research it first and read the documentation.










  • I had a horrible experience with nextcloud on a pi. I have a great experience on a good server. It stores files. It does that very well for me. Clients work reliable.

    Nextcloud apps are sometines good and sometimes not. It can do everything. One should let navidrome serve music and not nextcloud. Mealie is for recipes. Jellyfin for videos and immich for images. Paperless for documents.

    Nextcloud is file storage, backup, syncing and maybe collab. That’s what I expect and that’s what I get.