I agree with everyone saying you can run what you want on most any hardware. Only thing I’ll throw in is that with older/more used parts, you’re at a slightly higher risk of hardware failure, so if you wanna store data on there that you really don’t wanna lose, consider looking into online backup storage services. I’m not sure of their international availability but some good ones:

• borgbase
• backblaze

if it’s not a lot of files that you actually want backed up you might be able to get away with free/cheap tiers of google drive/one drive using rclone

Good luck!

I mean, that helps justify buying the game again. Fresh performances, possibly with tweaks or new content.

I’ll spin it around: why would you buy the game a second time if it just used all the same files?

Yes! This is the developer of gonic, if anyone didn’t know, which is a delightfully simple, fast, and stable opensubconic compatible music server. Been using it for years, I recommend. I’m very excited for wrtag to grow, as I really want something simpler and more automated than picard and beets

I use picard, which works great, but is by no means automatic. Keep an eye on https://github.com/sentriz/wrtag, I think it’ll be really clean and highly functional in the near future.

It’s still worth using, IMO. They present themselves as very privacy respecting and technologically savvy. I can say after years of using it, it feels that way. They never get in my way and consistently release quality, stable updates.

I didn’t think I’d get as much of a kick out of knowing that my random shuffle is truly random, but I do.

Self hosting music that I purchased is a really liberating feeling

95% of my homelab lives on a single server, and everything I do is within containers. So, my documentation is just keeping all my compose files in a git repo and writing in comments when necessary. It’s fairly self-documenting, and I haven’t found the need to break out of just using containers for everything, besides a couple things like setting up mergerfs or cockpit, but that’s all plug and play nowadays with stuff like https://projectucore.io/

Of course, I don’t have any other things set up in my physical layout or network stack… but all that stuff would probably just go into an entry in my notes (obsidian/wiki.vim).