This is the kind of quirky, distinctly human non-slop that I can't help but appreciate. Nice work, you lovely person you.
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Woah, soulseek
I haven't used soulseek in literally 20 years... Is it still a relevant place to get music?
Its quite good for music still, and slskd was developed to integrate soulseek with other programs in your *arr stack.
That being said, I just end up using it standalone and just open Picard whenever I remember I have music to sort.
Yeah of course, nicotine+ is a good client. The webapp I see most people use is slskd but there are others too. Where do you get your music from? Surely you don't pay evil companies for it and not support the artist directly when you can?
I just got back on it recently and the answer is a big yes. When I can't find stuff elsewhere I can find it there.
Yep
I use Soulseek to the exclusion of any other music acquisition services. Between it and Lidarr my Navidrome server is GLORIOUS these days.
I'm very new to self hosting, would you wanna tell me about some of the things you have going? I only really recognize the arr suite, spotify, and jellyfin here.
Stirlingpdf to edit pdf. Snap otter to edit images. Openwebui+ollama for local AI, lube logger for car maintenance. Mealie for kitchen recipes. Endurain to sinch Garmin data. Romm for console games. Home assistant. Jellyfin. Navidrome for music. AudioMuseAI for local AI analysis of my music, audiobook shelf for podcasts and audiobooks, searxng for web searches. Olist for WebDAV and web file access, paperlessngx for storing documents. Matrix web client elements, seerr to search movies and stuff recommendations. ExcaliDash to manage drawing and such....
Enough?
How's navidrome? We're currently using jellyfin and finamp to stream our music and it's not really meeting the needs of the house.
Navidrome Is good. I also have jellyfin but preferred a dedicated tool for music. I use Symfonium (paid android app) on mobile and navidrome web GUI from PC.
Paired with AudioMuseAI and Spotizerr it's pretty great.
Do you need a premium account for spotizerr? I've been looking for a good way to expand my music but all my old avenues are lack luster in the new digital age.
I have a premium account, but It should work also with a free account. The difference is in audio quality.
Awesome man. KISS is pretty much the way to go.
Kiss, but host 30+ self hosted services lol
KISS doesn't necessarily mean minimalist, but rather simple and purposeful.
It's a crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy dashboard.
Good band, I just couldn't stand Gene's arrogance.
Oh aye, he's a monumental prick.
I kissed her as well last night. /s
In the words of a Blues/R&B musician by the name of Swamp Dogg, if I ever kiss it, he can kiss it goodbye.
You're the coolest! AND you used Ai as a quick lightweight researcher, which is what it should be used for. You're fucking AWESOME! so thanks for your contributions!!
What are you using for Heating? Is it house heating or physical warm up?
It's my house heating. Basically it's a home made app on a orangepi that controls three dry relays and a few sensors feedbacks (stove on, stove warm, gas burner on, etc).
Everything is wrapped up by home assistant automations via MQTT and ZigBee thermo valves and thermometers in each room
The link on the dashboard points to the web GUI to check and control heating bypassing home assistant automations.
My setup it's better described here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=homeautomation%3Aheating
Nice
Do you have several environments for the same system? How does it look like on your dashboard?
What do you mean?
For example:
- App 1: prod
- App 1: test
- App 1: dev
You can make different groups or even different dashboards entirely