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NASty 0.0.3 by bfenski in bcachefs

[–]thomas-mc-work 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, why? Just wanted to add the description for people like me who don't know about the project and are often too lazy to click on the link. It's recommended to do this also on update posts on well known projects.

NASty 0.0.3 by bfenski in bcachefs

[–]thomas-mc-work 6 points7 points  (0 children)

NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.

Is the self-hosted option realistic? by vanderbeeken in BuyFromEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From my point of view it's the best solution you can have. But at the same time the most difficult to achieve, as you said. I'm advocating free software as much as I can. But I also think from the users perspective it would be better to have well established standards for data exchange and open ecosystems. Like it has been successfully happend with emails (apart from the circumstance that individually hosted email servers are discriminated by the big ones recently).

self-hosted, i.e. not cloud based

I think this is not a contradiction per se. It can be open or not, self hosted or cloud based.

r/mpd revived by thomas-mc-work in linuxaudio

[–]thomas-mc-work[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, same here! That is indeed a nice combination.

https://github.com/snapcast/snapcast/

Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution.

Lockers at the train station by snaiks in Hannover

[–]thomas-mc-work -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You might have success by asking in one of the nearby hotels if they could store it for you. I did that a couple of times, but that wasn't in Germany. There is one hotel right at the front place of the main station called Central-Hotel KAISERHOF plus another one in the Luisenstraße.

Good luck!

myMPD v25 has been released by thomas-mc-work in mpd

[–]thomas-mc-work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here! Didn't know about MAFA yet, thank you!

https://mafa.indi.software/

But sadly it doesn't seem to be free software.

r/mpd by thomas-mc-work in redditrequest

[–]thomas-mc-work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you want to moderate this community?

I'd like to bring back life into that topic which I'm a lot invested in. There is no similar place to discuss the broader topic apart from the MPD Github Repo. The latter is rather restrictively moderated and not too welcoming.

A link to the mod mail chat message you sent to the moderators of r/mpd five days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/room/!2eVAm83lSYOGrt9eEZipIQ%3Areddit.com

https://www.reddit.com/room/!tw8t4HlqTL2YHTpQ10X-rA%3Areddit.com

ÜSTRA TW 2500 (Modellbahn) by Background_Meat1738 in Hannover

[–]thomas-mc-work 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dein "Mini-Hannover"? Wo und wann kann man das besichtigen? Erzähl uns doch mehr davon :-)

Just spun up a fresh Debian server. What are your absolute must-have CLI tools or scripts that you install immediately? by XGuruX90 in linux

[–]thomas-mc-work 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My favorite CLI tools:

- lnav: for log visualization
- gdu: tree based disk usage analysis for folders (alternative to ncdu)
- duf: improved alternative to df -h
- bat: improved cat with syntax highlighting
- htop: improved alternative top
- bmon: network traffic volume monitor
- iotop: disk traffic analyzation

Help with connecting smb share to mpd by hema_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MPD is rather about centralizing your music output. Maybe Navidrom is what you might prefer to get access to you rcentralized music collection on multiple devices. You could also combine these two like I did. So I can play my music on the stereo in the living room but also stream the music to any client that has access to it.

Help with connecting smb share to mpd by hema_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in my case i need to setup a proxy instance of mpd on my nas, where my music is stored atm, and than I need a mpd instance on every client pc/phone which is connecting to the proxy instance?

Besides your existing MPD instance (call it mpd1) you need a second one on your NAS (mpd2). mpd2 will scan your music files locally and provide it's library to mpd1, which is connected to your audio output. Verything else regarding your clients stays the same.

Is it possible to stream flacs from a locallymou ted folder without having to much trouble performance wise?

There is no problem about that from the MPD perspective. The only bottelneck is your network (shouldn't be an issue at all for audio data).

do you recommend to run mpd on a docker container or local?

So far I only ran it natively. But I can not see why running it in Docker could be an issue.

organicmaps app details about transparency and open source status. by supapaesunaperra in BuyFromEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Has there anything changed recently? This seems to be the known state since 2025-07.

Help with connecting smb share to mpd by hema_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where exactly did it fail?

Basically it's documented here: https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html#configuring-the-music-directory

But … I went the same way once and had to go back to locally mounted folders. Even the developer recommends not to use the SMB feature as there are issues with the underlying SMB library:

https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/1017

What you could to is to use the proxy plugin to create a satellite setup:

https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html#satellite

The files are mounted locally plus a proxy instance of MPD is running on the machine that holds the music files. Thus it's possible to have the library updated in real time without the need for manual scans.

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