was going through some old pictures and decided I'd post a retro setup. pretty sure I took this picture with my android g1....so 2008ish?

here is a pic of one of my first selfhost setups. I began selfhosting for music and have never stopped. this iteration was stuffed behind a bar that was built in to the basement at my old house

the old fashioned was custom built and was running some flavor of windows server. the one on the floor was the first Linux server I had run to do something useful...torrents and subsonic IIRC. I pieced that server together with random parts, mostly donated from old family PCs. two UPS units were on the bottom rack of that metro shelf to battery back the servers and the tomato router out of frame.

it's closed source, but Roon is pretty darn good. Slick UI, tagging, artist/album information, local/remote playback, speaker streaming. I have it pointed to an NFS share on my file server. It handles large (250k+ songs) libraries reasonably well. They integrate directly with a couple services, though I've never used them.

the selling point for me, over other music servers(I've tried almost every one mentioned in this thread), was that it was a much better ux than any other offering. for the most part it has held up or exceeded recent comparisons.

disclaimers: it is not free. some might say expensive.

as seems the norm these days, the forums have some admin moderation problems.

they've not historically listened to user feedback seriously, though that has changed drastically over the past year.

they just got acquired by HK... which could really go either way long-term.

NGL, it took many years for it to mature to this point and it continues to be bumpy; though nothing worse than open software I've used and it is nothing if not reliable.

nevermind standard felonies. if it were almost any other federal position with access to classified material he'd never get a clearance, along with many other politicians; strictly based on business deals with foreign powers, debt and erratic behavior. why these people don't have to go through the same minimum, non-political checks for access as other federal workers is beyond me.... at the very least, he just doesn't meet the minimum qualifications for access to material needed to perform his job.