Dayum! Nothing bends weak knees like a bag of cash.

Edit: Thanks for the link!

I have a NAS for storage. The pi sips power, doesn’t make any sound, and runs what I need.

Can someone remind the Latino that he’s a means to an end and not really in the club?

You you could do most of that with a raspberry pi5, 8GB. With a whole kit, you can get it for under $250. I’m running 3 at my place: 1 for media (servarr stack, JF, Navidrome, Invidious), 1 for the Fediverse (Mastodon, Piefed, Peertube, WordPress), and 1 for anything else.

Edit: I also missed the part about truenas, but you can still run containers on any other OS just fine.

Fuck. Those. Tools. I wonder how much AIPAC money went their way.

Out of those two, I would go with Navidrome. Jellyfin is more monolithic of an app, and navidrome (more specifically, subsonic clients) is more Unix-like (or modular). You can’t edit the tags as easily as with Jellyfin, but beets works really well for tagging and embedding everything from album art to synced lyrics. Beets has great plugins to do all this, including a web app plugin and an auto update plugin.

Edit: I forgot to mention all the frontend choices. Many frontends work for both apps, but I believe subsonic clients have more options.

I’ve used Funkwhale, and I really enjoy it for what it can offer (multiple radios, playlists, and libraries for different types of users) but if you’re not really willing to share your music in the Fediverse, I’d go with JF or Navidrome.

If you don’t really care about an all-in-one media player with a GUI, you could serve your music on gonic and then pick the frontend of your choice. It handles podcast subs, online radio, scrobbling, etc. it also plays well with subsonic clients and beets plugins.

I hope Miami Cubans are paying attention.

This is perfect, thanks for sharing.

Thank you! It so happens that one of my first clients runs a farm, but just my size. I’ve already shared some solutions with the owner, but as free advice to gauge interest.

Great idea. I’d like to have remote services available, but I imagine the hardware expenses and overhead would be more expensive. Once I have some clients, I’d like to invest in a good rack.

“Dude, buddy, homie!”

Thanks for the explanation and the sobering advice. I don’t plan on going big, but it’s good to know what I’m going into.

I appreciate that explanation. I imagined there had to be a name for this type of business.

Since it’s mostly older folks here, I’ll have to think about what that could mean for them. Privacy, peace of mind, ownership, security?

Thank you for your feedback and advice. I’ll certainly take it cautiously.

The location is certainly a consideration. Median age is 65. Semi-rural. I think it would take a lot of patience and in-person planning.

Lots to think about!

Thanks for the advice! I’ll certainly make backups a priority.

Great to know, thanks for sharing! I’m going to start very slowly with people I know, lol.

The Grim Reaper has terrible aim.

It’s got that Chris Hansen lean…

Shit, why didn’t anyone else think of that? It’s so simple!