docker-handbrake VS Navidrome Music Server

Handbrake (https://github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake) - Similar to QT bittorrent, nice to have a spot where I can dump my video files and it has tools to monitor new files dropped in and custom formats.

I would highly suggest that you use https://github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake/blob/master/README.md

Do you use docker? You could use the ripper container and use handbrake container. You’d set the output directory of ripper to be the handbrake input directory. Just put the disk in the drive you have setup and ripper will do it’s thing. After it’s done handbrake will detect a movie and encode it using your settings.

Very new to docker - although quite techy. I am guessing I missed permissions or something somewhere. I have set up Handbrake https://github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake within Docker following this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6HgHsxdWIo I can access it via port5800, however when I go to add a file/folder the pop up goes to "storage" if I go to "Other Locations" I can see the folder I specified during set up, but then I get "Cannot Read contents of GoProToSort" "Error opening directory. Permission Denied"

But when jlesage/handbrake launches, even if you manually specify uid:gid 1000:1000, there are permission errors:

It sounds like you missed the x11vnc part of this. You connect into the container using vnc, not x11. If you want to see a working example of a gui app running successfully in docker, check out https://github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake

There isn't a magic setting or anything, and honestly, I don't recommend tdarr, mostly because you can do all the same stuff it does with a bash script and jlesage's handbrake container (or just handbrake outright).

My NAS/home server is a NON-COREBOOT HPE-Proliant-Gen10 microserver I have some details here. 24G ECC, 24TB RAIDZ-2. I am running docker containers for Makemkv, Handbrake, Filebot, Jellyfin, Gitea, TinyTinyRSS, Bitwarden, Samba (readonly for Kodi running on an Nvidia Sheild TV), Restic backup, Nextcloud, PFELK (router stats) and a weather forecast app I run on an old Nook in a picture frame. It isn't fast but it doesn't need to be for my needs.

My primary way to play music is from my self-hosted navidrome[1] server with my collection of albums I've mostly purchased from bandcamp. I can stream it to many different devices at home or on the go.

But sitting next to my bed is a Walkman (actually a $10 Jensen version) with a few of my favorite cassettes in the nightstand drawer. Granted, I listen to raw black metal, so the format fits the music well, but I really enjoy just popping in a cassette and hitting play. When I "metaltate", I listen to full albums and do not want to ever be interrupted or have skipping audio due to bluetooth or anything else. It is a really simple and great experience.

Would I ever take my walkman with me or want to carry around a bunch of tapes on a trip? Of course not! But it does have a time and place that is valuable.

When friends come over, we use either vinyl or my custom built RFID cards. There is more of a ceremony to digging through a physical stack of albums and being forced to listen to the album front to back.

[1] https://www.navidrome.org/

Basically, you run a server on your Mac that scans your music collection and "broadcasts" it to the network (LAN or WAN) via either the venerable UPnP/DLNA[1] family of technologies or the newish Subsonic API[2]. Of course, there are others, like DAAP or AURA, etc..

From there, you need to point a compatible player to said server to play your music on any supported device.

If you want to listen to your music on the go, pairing a Subsonic-compatible server on your Mac and a Subsonic-compatible app on your iPhone is probably the way to go. On the server side, I have only used the original Subsonic[3], which was good, but Navidrome[4] seems to be OK. But be aware that the whole "scene" is super messy and fragmented, with the usual abandoned forks of open source alternatives of everything.

Note that this means opening your local network, which comes with its own complexity.

This r/selfhosted thread[5] should give you an idea.

My use case is slightly different. I only care about streaming to my Denon CEOL mini system, which only supports UPnP/DLNA, so my current setup is:

- All my music is stored on a 2011 Mac Mini,

- I use Kazoo Server[6] (not perfect but reliable) to stream it to my audio system,

- which I control via the HEOS app provided by Denon.

Whatever stack you choose, make sure your files are tagged correctly and consistently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA

[2] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp

[3] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

[4] https://www.navidrome.org/

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/pz9dpb/lets_mak...

[6] https://docs.linn.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Kazoo_Server_setup_Ma...

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EDIT: This version has a bug when running on Windows that breaks your database! I deleted the Windows binary from the download page and will publish a fix very soon. For details see: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/issues/2630

Jellyfin is great for movies & shows. As an anecdote, it's not so good for music if you're a collector. I personally use Navidrome for that[0].

Anyway, Sonarr[1] makes use of .NET, too. Very reliable software, in my experience.

[0]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

I am running ND via the docker container (deluan/navidrome:latest which is 0.49.3 (8b93962f) at the time of this writing) and interact with ND using the web interface.