Homelab

(part 1 here) Now that we have a way to get our music and our player(s) picked out, let’s come up with an easy to use workflow and an organisatonial structure that works for us. It’s going to be a lengthy one, so let’s just get started. Here’s the gist of the workflow: flowchart TD cd((CDs)) cd-- dBPoweramp CD Ripper -->flac bandcamp@{ shape: cloud } bandcamp-->flac subgraph TrueNas direction TD flac@{ shape: documents, label: "/flac_music" } opus@{ shape: documents, label: "/opus_music" } mp3@{ shape: documents, label: "/mp3_music" } plex@{ shape: "lin-rect", label: "PLEX server" } flac-. lossifier-opus .->opus flac-. lossifier-mp3 .->mp3 flac===plex end rb@{ shape: card, label: "rockbox DAP"} android@{ shape: card, label: "Android DAP"} snow@{ shape: card, label: "snowsky DAP"} laptop@{ shape: card, label: "laptop"} opus-- rclone -->rb mp3-- rclone -->snow opus-. autosync .->android plex-->laptop plex-->android flowchart TD subgraph legend [Legend] direction TD style legend fill:none smb@{ shape: documents, label: "SMB share" } docker@{ shape: "lin-rect", label: "docker service" } dap@{ shape: card, label: "player hardware"} Com@{ shape: braces, label: "dotted arrows run\n on a schedule" } end As you can see the centerpiece of the system is a TrueNas NAS.

For some context: Recently I’ve been sharpening my Kubernetes skills by setting up a small 6 node k3s cluster at home. The place I currently live doesn’t have a public IP address, so I chose to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel to expose services to the internet. I chose to have the cloudflared daemon running on the host machines and the overall setup quick and pain-free. The whole thing seemed to work well, but I noticed that over time (within hours) the tunneled services would start responding more slowly and eventually Cloudflare would display 523 errors.

Recently, after learning how bad spotify is for its artists I made a deliberate effort to move my family to Tidal - 8/10 decision, would recommend. But to take step further I decided to slowly move towards “owning my music” - maintaining my own digital collection of music and making sure I have a convenient way of listening to it. There were a number of reasons for it