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Cake day: August 21st, 2025

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  • Finally managed to have a go at a new collection, and think I ended up with a setup that isn’t all that bad 😊

    • Lidarr (Plugin Edition).
    • Tubifarry plugin (so much better than my last attempt, which was with Soularr).
    • Tubifarry uses SLSKD as indexer and client.
    • Set up an extra metadata profile in Lidarr with most release formats added, for those rare occasions where I need to find something obscure for a specific artist.
    • When needed, I manually tag and import files. I haven’t had good experiences with Beets or Picard (neither desktop nor Docker version), so for re-tagging I just use Kid3 on my Mac, accessing the music files in situ on the server. Most things go pretty smoothly, though, and I just use Lidarr for renaming files (and moving, if necessary).
    • I’ve made sure that Lidarr has access to a Bin folder, though, for those occasional times when it decides to just randomly delete something 🙄
    • For Navidrome, I’ve figured out that the best way to fix missing album art is to just add it directly to the music files through Kid3.
    • For persistent missing files in Navidrome, I’ve realised there’s a ‘Missing files’ function when you click the profile icon (top right), and this solves a lot of the gripes I had with Navi previously.
    • For playback, mainly on Android, I’m using Symphonium, which seems happy as long as Navi’s happy.

    All in all, I think I’ve got everything a bit under control this time around 😊

    Now I just need to remember to get the backup situation under control … 🫣

    Again, thanks for your help! ❤️


  • Thank you for the suggestions! I’ll give it another go, see if I can make it work 👍

    I was using Symfonium as my client on Android, maybe that was part of the problem.

    I used Beets for processing/tagging, which was also troublesome; never could get it to do anything on its own, had to manually initiate every session, and lots of stuff needed handholding to get tagged correctly. Never could get Picard to work at all, neither in Docker nor on my desktop.


  • I managed to get a pretty decent collection going, accessed through Navidrome and have to admit I wasn’t a fan. Artwork missing, multiple profiles for the same artists, the inability to remove albums that were no longer on the server. The whole thing just felt like a struggle.

    Then the disk my collection was on kicked the bucket, and hadn’t gotten around to setting up backup, so I’m starting over from scratch 😅

    Bit miffed Navi is still what people are recommending 😔






  • Hot take — har vi, som nation, overhovedet fortjent en nationalfisk?

    Det virker ekstremt hyklerisk at skulle samles om en fisk som vi er glade for, stolte af, når vi — i det store hele — ikke kan værne om vores åer, søer, og have. Vores landbrug udleder enorme mængder kvælstof i vores vandløb, som til sidst ender i havet (og jeg har næsten ikke overskud til at nævne det faktum at vi sprøjter (fucking) PFAS direkte på vores afgrøder, som højst sandsynligt ender i vores drikkevand før eller siden, og giver en skøn udsigt til en eksplosion af cancer i befolkningen …).

    Havbunden er mange steder gold og øde. Alger blomstrer, og kvæler alt. Ålegræsset, grundstenen i en af vores vigtigste biotoper for fisk og andre dyr, er døende, og i visse områder helt væk.

    Hvor ækelt er det ikke at skulle fejre en specifik fisk, imens vi så godt som skider dem alle sammen direkte i gællerne samtidig? Det er lidt som da vi i 2014 blev “enige” om at stegt flæsk med persillesovs skulle være vores Nationalret™, imens vi i 2025 stadig i stor stil producerer svinekød under fuldstændig umenneskelige (u_væsen_lige?) levevilkår for grisene.

    Jeg har ikke været inde og stemme på en fisk endnu, men håber inderligt at der er et felt til “Andet: tast dit forslag”, så jeg kan bruge muligheden til lidt protest i stedet. Hold my beer.