Last week I managed to set up Navidrome and audiobookshelf on my Raspberry Pi (My first Raspberry Pi). At the moment I don’t have a SSD like I would’ve wanted, but a USB flash drive did just fine.
I used Docker for both of them, and set up the directory paths to match the mounted flash drive. It’s convenient to use rsync for files transfer, and that’s about it.
Regarding the music, I have some CDs which I ripped, and used MusicBrainz Picard for appropriate tagging. Other than that, cough cough, there is SoulSeek and nicotine+ as its client. I’d love to use Bandcamp and support artists by buying their digital releases too.
I love it. On desktop, my main client is SubTUI and the official Navidrome one. On iOS Amperfy works great. audiobookshelf provides a client interface too, and AudioBooth is damn good on iOS. Another feature I’m font of is the last.fm integration. This is fantastic as I struggled with that on iOS and used Cider on my mac which has it included.
By creating this friction in the music curation process, I get to be more intentional about what truly matters to me. I love albums deep-dives, and to immerse myself in the world created by the music artist. I believe that music is there to be treated as an work of art, and not something you consume with no meaning. At least this is my opinion on which I want to base my engagement with music on.
I’m also on RateYourMusic now to and explore music overall. I can’t say I was using the recommendation algorithms on Spotify and Apple Music. I prefer to look out for it myself or from other people, but I might try the Sonemic recommendations on there. What I piqued my interest was the Sonemic challenge: music which is highly rated but in styles/genres outside those that you have rated, to help you expand your music taste and step out of your comfort zone.
About the audiobooks, I don’t think it’s worth mentioning how shitty Audible is (: