Ok, so you know that I am using Android, and that I am not too happy with the situation. Ultimately Android is a JAVA-based operating system for phones, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that trying to replace a FreeBSD (or proper GNU/Linux) laptop with it, will cause some grief. But, than Android does have some cool things (which I might elaborate on in another post), and the availibility just forces us as political Free Software users to take the OS seriously and care about its users.
This post covers storage and organisation of the files.
General Layout MUSICDIR │ ├── FILES │ ├── _flac │ ├── _flac_vorb │ ├── _other │ └── _vorb │ ├── LINKS │ ├── best │ ├── smallest │ └── vorb │ └── meta Ok, the obvious stuff: · MUSICDIR is where you keep your music. · FILES is a sub directory that contains your actual files. · LINKS contains links to files from FILES, based on certain criteria.
Here are the general components of the setup, as well as planned components. Fear not, most of everything that follows does not imply this setup and is generally usable. You don’t even need a server for the most part. Server · acts as storage for local and remote access · handles maintenance jobs · plays music directly, remote controlled [planned] · runs FreeBSD and ZFS · more details in separate article
Since it might be useful to some other people I want to document my audio setup in a few blog posts. By audio setup I mean the storage, organization and playback of my music collection. It covers the following: file systems, file formats, network access, choice of portable hardware, my own maintenance software (conversion, synchronization etc) and briefly other software (operating systems, playback software). The overall features of the system, as I will describe later:
Since quite a few people have been asking me for my awesome config, I thought I’d upload it.
For those of you who don’t know awesome, check it out, it’s awesome! SCNR Main differences from the default are:
remove all panels and stuff, because they are ugly
load xfce4-panel instead, because it’s light, but provides stuff like mpd-controls &c
create 12 tags (virtual desktops)
bind certain type of applications to certain desktops
