The Lounge
Navidrome Music Server
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The Lounge
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Simplicity of IRC
IRC as a protocol is indeed incredibly simple and easy to get started with. Years ago did discover this when I was able to make [this atrocity](https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd) bridging IRC and discord where for IRC I effectively did a simple server implementation.
There is a caveat, though. Like many older protocols (ftp) there is a lot that was not initially written down or left up to clients and server implementations. This, does lead to a lot of edge cases you need to be aware of once you want to actually support a wider user group.
Also, as this is apparently is still a discussion. IRC is not simple from a modern user UX perception. Registration can be complex and confusing, though hidden a bit through clients. Managing channels with various flags is a whole other thing. Then there is also the fact that these days people are no longer used to the fact that they can't see messages from periods where they were not connected. Of course, the latter can be easily handled by a BNC or fancy clients like https://thelounge.chat . But, that is only easy for technically inclined folks.
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Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
> It’s 2024, people aren’t going to go out of their way to setup “bouncers” to keep up with conversation that happens when they’re not online or leave their computer running 24/7.
You can just set up something like The Lounge [0].
[0] https://thelounge.chat/
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Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine
Excellent idea! You'll have a mature, open standard protocol under the hood, with no vendor lock-in, excellent extensibility, and great modern frontends like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) to choose from (and you can choose).
- IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol
- Show HN: Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC
- New thelounge Theme: iAnon
- The Lounge 4.4.0 released - the self-hosted web IRC client
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Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine.
Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on ones home router. I use it on Alpine Linux, works great. It's not a shiny and attention grabbing as Discord but probably fine for everyone else. For people to create their own voice channels would require the full-blown Murmur server.
[1] - https://github.com/thelounge
[2] - https://thelounge.chat/
[3] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/
[4] - https://convos.chat/
[5] - https://www.mumble.info/
[6] - https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration
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I'm trying to set up a client device that will remain connected to a server that I can remotely log into
As another self-hosted solution, I quite like TheLounge (https://thelounge.chat)
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Most used selfhosted services in 2022?
TheLounge (https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge) - web IRC client that I set to listen on my vpn/mesh. Works great on desktop and mobile, and supports push notifications.
Navidrome Music Server
- How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017)
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When you use a Walkman the memories come back: the people in love with old tech
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/
- Navidrome: Self-Hostable Music Server
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Ask HN: Managing MP3s on Mac/iOS Without Streaming Services
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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Navidrome 0.50.1 Bug Fix Release
[Scanner] Fix Windows scanner (#2633). Thanks @caiocotts
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Navidrome 0.50.0 just released!
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
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.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux
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
- Navidrome: Open-Source Software to enjoy your music collection from anywhere
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How to fix ND playlist after changing folder structure?
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.
- Building a digital music collection in 2023
What are some alternatives?
ZNC - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer
Airsonic - :satellite: :cloud: :notes:Airsonic, a Free and Open Source community driven media server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic)
Kiwi IRC - 🥝 Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
Convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]
airsonic-advanced
Quassel IRC - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.
Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.
Weechat - The extensible chat client.
koel - 🐦 A personal music streaming server that works.
InspIRCd - A modular C++ IRC server (ircd).
gonic - music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation