Man, little me living in a house where most music was The Beatles, Bob Marley, Carole King, and James Taylor thought this was the scariest, rockingest shit ever.

That’s not a terrible idea. I do the same with Christmas music and have been considering a separate library for live stuff as well.

I understand recommendations, but I don’t want anything just auto inserting music into my library. I curate my library. I want to intentionally add to it. Half the joy in finding new artists is whatever led you to that moment.

This might just be an old man talking though.

Yeah. The list should be in the site config. Go ahead and include those as defaults to block, but allow sites to override that.

OP, are you saying that the federation is blocked on the OUTGOING side? Because then that just seems bass ackwards.

Oh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.

Maybe it’s partly regional, but growing up it was always “nitch”. Like “Tom has really found his (nitch).” It only seems to have been making the transition to “neesh” in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.

With a hard K?

Thank you for memeing with the proper pronunciation of “niche”.

So do you have just a bunch of random boolean tags? The Genre tag can hold multiple values, so you could have “Classical;Relaxing;String Quartet;Suites” if you wanted and each is identified separately.

Thanks! Definitely going to spend some time with the media managers this weekend. Replacing 4 separate-but-connected-or-related apps into one would be amazing.

IDK. I was just admitting we are a nation of idiots.

My wife is a pretty even keeled person. Tenet made her visibly angry and to this day, I have to consider her current mood before I mention it.

We also don’t math too gooder.

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It’s fine. The White House says:

Federal hiring, promotions, and performance reviews will reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work

So there’s no way he could be unqualified.

100%. Jellyfin is okay maybe for a small library or a starting point, but Navidrome with Symfonium (on Android) is just a wonderful experience.

The year was 2002 and I was working in the music section of a Borders. Older guy comes in asking for an album by a new young singer, he didn’t know her name but “she could be a model”. I don’t recall how, but somehow, we made it to this album and that was what he was looking for.

As a 20 something, it wasn’t my cup of tea and given the Borders crowd’s obsession with it, I was mostly unwilling to be bothered with it. Fast forward 20+ years and I’ve developed a real love of Jones and this album in particular.

I guess my point is listen to the old people even if they don’t know what they’re talking about.

I’ve just finished ripping about 1300 CDs. I used Jellyfin for a bit since I already had it set up for my video library, but I wasn’t happy with the Android options and it was pretty basic.

Navidrome is a fucking TREAT. Paired with Symfonium, I’m finally enjoying my personal music collection regularly again.

As for tagging, OP, while I get why people like Picard, it doesn’t always work with how I like to do things. I put everything into a music folder on my desktop, use Mp3Tag to retrieve metadata, edit what I need, and make sure the artwork is decent and sized where I want it. Then I use the tag > filename to organize and move them to my NAS.

I think it’s about driving away financial sponsors, not volunteer developers. So the last sentence is “That’s going to drive away people who want to give you money and make OUR product worse and our lives harder.”

Since we are all people of taste, I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the inspiration for Albuquerque, but it had been a while since I heard it. Listened earlier this week and was shocked at how directly it referenced the original.

https://youtu.be/GN-THKvimi0