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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Volumio
    Will run on a dedicated raspberry pi and x86.
    (dedicated means, the computer will only do this, nothing else)
    Connect the sound out of the device to the amp and it will provide a web interface to directly control playback.
    Music is not streamed, it can play files from a local disk, or from a network mount.
    The free tier is 99% of what someone needs.

    Moodeaudio
    Same as above without fees, though explicitly only for raspberrypi and a limited number of SBC’s

    A key fundamental for any music is the metadata tagging and Musicbrains Picard is the best way to do this
    Picard can automatically find the proper metadata for almost everything, and, can “scan” ripped from cd tracks and automate the naming and folder structure that a music library should be in.

    And as others have said, rip to flac








  • Syncthing can realtime monitor a folder that just has the keepass file and automatically update to any other syncthing enabled devices in near realtime.

    Additionally it can be set to keep versions of the file so you can have copies of older versions to hand whenever things go wrong.

    The only real catch is to not have the keepass db open on 2 devices at the same time as any changes made in one may be overwritten by the other as file locking isn’t a thing in this method.

    I’ve used Syncthing and keepass in this way for many many years