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Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

70 points · 109 comments · beardyw

  1. pkthunder · · focus · HN ↗
    I’ve been going through my own personal revival of physical media - mostly audio. I don’t miss streaming at all.

    Every CD I buy gets ripped to a NAS that hosts the music behind Navidrone where I can stream to my vehicle using Play:Sub (thanks to Tailscale for enabling all of this to work for me!).

    I am just so enamored with being able to get the best of both worlds - my own music, anywhere.

    I do wish I could figure out some sort of recommendation system to find new magic, though. Obviously not to steam new/unowned songs, just to point me in a direction next time I go to the store.

    1. Dreami · · focus · HN ↗
      I have a huge collection (100-200) of CDs from a relative that I would like to store the same way. Can you explain your setup?
      1. pkthunder · · focus · HN ↗
        I’d love to. I’m working off memory right now, but it’s nothing fancy.

        I’ve got abcde[0] set up to handle the digitizing, navidrome[1] is set up to serve the content from a home lab server/NAS over Subsonic[2].

        Play:Sub[3] is an iOS application that works with Subsonic. Just an audio receiver at this point, the app lets me “just play something” which is quite nice. Can “play a random album” for example.

        Tailscale just enables this off-LAN.

        Happy to give more info if you need!

        [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linux.die.net&#x2F;man&#x2F;1&#x2F;abcde" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linux.die.net&#x2F;man&#x2F;1&#x2F;abcde

        [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.navidrome.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.navidrome.org&#x2F;

        [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.subsonic.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.subsonic.org&#x2F;

        [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michaelsapps.dk&#x2F;playsubapp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michaelsapps.dk&#x2F;playsubapp&#x2F;

        1. Dreami · · focus · HN ↗
          Thanks a lot! Did you do this sequentially with each CD, or did you have any concurrency with multiple drives?
          1. pkthunder · · focus · HN ↗
            Definitely did it sequentially with a single CD drive. I&#x27;m sitting on maybe 100 albums, max. It takes ~15min per album to process, which pulls in song metadata, lyrics (synced, if possible), album art, etc.
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