Oh I see, that’s right! It’s not something we selfhosters usually admit when comparing costs I’d say :-)

CDs take quite some space once you have more than like 50. Selling them after ripping in large quantities is a lot of work. I wouldn’t buy CDs unless I’m really into the physical medium (nothing wrong with that - sadly, most downloads lack high res artworks, booklets etc).

I just set up Navidrome in my lunch break and am looking into exactly this. I hadn’t downloaded/organized my last Bandcamp purchases and now I have 32 zip files on my laptop and am wondering how to get them properly tagged and sorted in the existing library.

I’m rereading this article by @[email protected] and it seems like beets could be an answer, but I don’t fully understand what exactly it does yet.

I guess that’s where the ListenBrainz/Last.fm part comes in (which is mentioned in the article).

I still get music recommendations via friends, concert/festival lineups and online forums, but that’s just for my “main” genres. For other stuff, Spotify is quasi the only solution for me as well.

I mean there’s a whole block on this:

Lidarr is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused. Yes, people could point it at less-than-legal sources. No, I’m not telling you to do that. If you want to support artists, buy their work. If you don’t, don’t pretend Spotify streams are “support.”

Important Note: Always ensure you’re obtaining music through legal channels such as:

• Digital purchases (Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, etc.)
• Ripping CDs you’ve purchased
• Free legal downloads offered by artists
• Music available under Creative Commons licenses

And yes, I’ll use this with my existing, mostly legally obtained, music collection. I don’t mind the pirate stack though, it’s far easier to just download the album than ripping your vinyl and tapes.

Are we looking at the same table? It says it’s about cost in the left column. Or am I misunderstanding your post?

That quote relates to financial expenses compared to monthly Spotify subscription, not time and effort.

There has been another post on Lemmy on replacing Spotify with a selfhosted stack. I already have an extensive music library, mostly ripped CDs and bandcamp purchases, but have been procrastinating a selfhosted setup for a while but I’ll at least set up Navidrome and explore the options with listenbrainz etc.

The update was also posted in the original thread

KOReader on my old Tolino with Android.

It’s not beautiful but full of features and you can configure everything. I can directly download the books from my Calibre Web Automated container via opds.

I don’t donate crypto but I know Lemmy accepts some currencies.

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Yeah I think I’ve seen some recent commits on his GitHub profile as well. He seems to be “back”, just not on kbin.

I hosted my own kbin instance for a while as it seemed interesting, but admittedly I never really got into it. Still a cool approach, just not for me.

I have VPSes at Hetzner for Mastodon and Bookwyrm. I’m also using Hetzner nameservers with pseudo DynDNS.

Mail is managed by 1blu with my domain.

Everything else is at home. I would move at least bookwyrm into my home server, but there’s another admin involved and I’d need to give them limited access to the VM and Proxmox (backup/snapshots/rebuild when doing maintenance).

True, but I’m not sure I’d put up awx nowadays. At work we migrated from Tower/AWX to Ansible in Gitlab pipelines because of constant problems and I’m thinking about doing a similar thing in my Forgejo. I’m not much of a fan if running Ansible via CLI except for development purposes. Too much trouble with variables

Ansible doesn’t need an agent besides python and can take care of most kinds of updates. You have to run/schedule it regularly though. It’s pretty good for updating multiple hosts at once (assuming they mostly have the same OSes).

For uptime, CPU etc you mostly need agents but Proxmox also shows some of these in the UI.

Same. I’m glad I don’t have to think about databases usually.

Just wanted to let you know that I set it up i a free minute and both the website and the app look pretty great on first glance. Didn’t explore much yet and don’t have that much time for podcast listening right now, but I’ll keep and see. :)

One thing regarding this docker-compose example: I put the credentials in an .env file so I can check my composefile in git, and to not have the Postgres stuff twice. Would that make sense to have it in the docs as well or do you prefer to have a single file there?

I guess it should work, but your internet connection becomes the bottleneck. Make sure you have enough bandwidth, outbound as well, to have several people watching the same time