From the 80s to now has been a wild ride for music fans. I never gave up my CD collection, but the last 15 years haven't seen a lot of additions. Streaming just made it so easy. Then during COVID, I went hard on vinyl and did that for a few years. Then last year, I decided to start bringing my media back in-house. I spent weeks ripping CDs. I spun up a Navidrome server. I found Symfonium. I started buying CDs again.
Symfonium has a "Track Mix" feature, so I get in the car, hit that, and it just plays random shit. My collection is currently at about 25,000 songs and I have no idea what might come next. It's great. There are some things I've probably only listened to once before, 20 years ago or something.
Then at home, I hit the Random Albums tab in Navidrome while I'm working and just choose something from there to listen to.
It has helped make my listening more meaningful again and brought me back to my love of physical media.
I still have YT Music and I use it to listen to new releases each week or for the odd song I think of that isn't in my collection (yet).
Google tells me "The term Levantine generally refers to Europeans (often British, French, or Italian) who settled in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Ottoman period, forming a distinct, cosmopolitan community.
In the context of the Levant, the Barry family refers to a prominent British merchant family that was part of the Levantine community in the Ottoman Empire, particularly in Izmir (Smyrna) and Istanbul (Constantinople). "
Oh, and the photo is the Barry's. So now I understand the pieces, but I don't really get it.
Maybe you've already looked into this, but my concern with your plan is the idea of packing up and moving to a new site and platform. What happens to existing users and post history? Building a community only to tell them they need to start all over could be detrimental.
My project for the week is getting Matrix and Continuwuity set up. Half-hearted initial attempts have been unsuccessful with the Continuwuity container just in constant restarts.
For basically as long as they've been around, I've mostly dismissed the Murphys as "too Boston" (which, in this sense, means dickish Boston Irish). But these last few years have really shown me I was just an idiot and they are exactly the kind of Boston Irish I want around.
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.
I've been using Tusky for the last couple of years, but decided to give OpenVibe another go to keep Mastodon and Bluesky in one place.
OpenVibe is alright. Next to no customization, a little slow to load when first opening, and the scrolling animation is...I'm not even sure how to describe it. Artificial? It almost looks laggy even though it's responsive.
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.
From the 80s to now has been a wild ride for music fans. I never gave up my CD collection, but the last 15 years haven't seen a lot of additions. Streaming just made it so easy. Then during COVID, I went hard on vinyl and did that for a few years. Then last year, I decided to start bringing my media back in-house. I spent weeks ripping CDs. I spun up a Navidrome server. I found Symfonium. I started buying CDs again.
Symfonium has a "Track Mix" feature, so I get in the car, hit that, and it just plays random shit. My collection is currently at about 25,000 songs and I have no idea what might come next. It's great. There are some things I've probably only listened to once before, 20 years ago or something.
Then at home, I hit the Random Albums tab in Navidrome while I'm working and just choose something from there to listen to.
It has helped make my listening more meaningful again and brought me back to my love of physical media.
I still have YT Music and I use it to listen to new releases each week or for the odd song I think of that isn't in my collection (yet).