I went away for a few hours, wow, all the replies! Thanks all!
I ended up going with a refurbished T480s. Wanted something I could upgrade memory/storage on. The form factor and the metal case also sounded appealing. Should have it in a week.
I'm using Reolink E1 Zoom cameras. My router's firewall keeps them offline, and I manage everything through HomeAssistant. Very happy with my experience on a budget
Omg, it's Limewire, I can't believe it! I used you when I was a kid! Can I have your autograph!?
Logitech media server, every day of the week. Despite its name, it is open source and in the hands of the community. Then, with cdrummond's Material Skin and LMS Android Wrapper, it's next level good. I can't ever imagine going back
Edit: if hosting the server on a RPI, check out piCorePlayer. It can host your server and also serve as a player simultaneously
"You know what they should copy? They should copy how to get good games"
-Chad Warden
Garage Time type car
Oh boy, I sure hope Kid Rock can refrain from singing about underage girls on this song
This goes hard.
I'm a huge fan of LMS (Lyrion Music Server, formerly Logitech Media Server, formerly Slimserver, formerly...)
Fantastic piece of software. The server can run on a first gen Raspberry Pi and handle 100k+ tracks like it's nobody's business
I recognize that art style. Is this from a Chick tract?
36 TB usable space on my NAS... Music doesn't even make a dent
I'm replacing a dead Latitude currently, it was a fun ride, but I'd like to replace it with something else
I'm an old man. "Back in my day", we heard by word of mouth, the radio, browsing at music shops, etc.
We can still do that in the digital age. When someone posts a random song, anywhere, check it out. Try checking out internet radio of genres you like (I'm finding a lot of Classical this way currently). Check out Bandcamp and IRL music store every once in a while just see what calls to you. Sometimes, let the cool album art guide you ;)
? I've got IPTV working fine on Libreelec (Linux) on 20.3
We don't do that here
Found one refurbished on eBay. I'll report when I get it as to the quality
Yup! Been using a 1TB iPod for almost a year, and I've never looked back
You pretty much calculated spot on! ;)
Damn, this goes hard
Depends. I tend to listen to whole albums, so I let LMS give me a random album if I wanna hear something new. If I'm in the mood for whatever, I do random mixes in LMS. LMS also has a music similarity feature (with plugins) that will play related songs after an album, too, so that also helps me find new stuff that sounds like stuff I already like
PiCorePlayer and LMS are the way.
I'm using a Raspberry pi, my desktop computer, my phone, some Logitech Squeezebox devices, and Google Home Minis all through my house
Just keep em away from Frank
For my pi, PC, and phone, I use Squeezelite. For the pi specifically, piCorePlayer is the OS that I use to run Squeezelite
For the pi, and DAC will do. I personally use a Hifiberry DAC which connects via the GPIO, but any USB DAC will do the job
TELL YOUR WIFE I'M COMING BY-----
This feels oddly threatening
I'm using them inside. I record to microsd on each camera, and use homeassistant to view them. I'm eventually going to build a NVR for them
If I wanna listen to something and I don't know what, I just let LMS give me a random album and see what I get!
Storage is cheap, and music (even in FLAC format) is small. You can fit tens of thousands of songs into a terabyte.
I download anything and everything. An artist I enjoy? Entire discography. I've only heard one song? Entire discography--there may be more I might enjoy! An artist in a genre I like but I've never heard? Entire discography.
I'm at over 125k songs, and I still feel like my collection is a sliver. I eventually want to reach 1m songs and truly become my own Spotify. Finding songs I've never heard before and that I end up loving in my own collection is a joy I can't describe.