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 #!/bin/sh 
 
-# from the pure sh bible; see: 
-# https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible#get-the-base-name-of-a-file-path
-
-if ! command -v lynx &> /dev/null
+if ! command -v lynx
 then
     printf '%s\n' "lynx not found, not going to run"
     exit

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+   13 December, 2020
+
+My music streaming setup
+
+Think Spotify, but self-hosted and not as good
+
+   Having a self-hosted, centralized music streaming setup has been on my
+   todo list for the longest time. I'd initially tried using NFS, but
+   mounting it on my phone was very inconvenient. Incidentally, a few days
+   ago, the existence of Subsonic/*sonic became known to me.
+
+gonic
+
+   I found [1]gonic to be the simplest of them all, and proceeded to set
+   it up on the RPi. There are other alternatives too, like [2]Navidrome,
+   which ships with a web player, or [3]Airsonic. gonic stood out the most
+   to me because it's effectively headless, barring a simple web interface
+   for configuration.
+
+   Setting it up was trivial. I did run into an [4]issue -- I noticed that
+   only songs that were already in folders, sorted by album, were being
+   picked up in the scan.
+|-- Void Of Vision - Hyperdaze (2019)
+|   |-- 01. Overture.mp3
+|   |-- 02. Year of the Rat.mp3
+|   |-- 03. Babylon.mp3
+|   |-- 04. If Only.mp3
+|   |-- 05. Slave to the Name.mp3
+|   |-- 06. Adrenaline.mp3
+|   |-- 07. Hole In Me.mp3
+|   |-- 08. Kerosene Dream.mp3
+|   |-- 09. Decay.mp3
+|   |-- 10. Splinter.mp3
+|   |-- 11. Hyperdaze.mp3
+|-- Volumes - Disaster Vehicle.mp3
+|-- Volumes - Finite.mp3
+|-- Volumes - Heavy Silence.mp3
+|-- Volumes - Hope.mp3
+|-- Volumes - Interlude.mp3
+...
+
+
+   So, in a directory tree like above, only the tracks inside "Void Of
+   Vision - Hyperdaze (2019)" would get picked up, and all the "Volumes"
+   songs wouldn't -- since it wasn't in a subfolder of its own.
+
+   As a workaround -- and a necessary cleanup of my music -- I figured I'd
+   give [5]beets a shot.
+
+beets
+
+   beets is extensively documented, so I'll skip the basics. In essence,
+   it's a music organization tool -- fetches tags, sorts your collection,
+   etc. Most of my music has been tagged already, so I skipped that. I
+   only it all to be grouped by album. A bit of digging in the docs, and I
+   found what I wanted: --group-albums.
+
+   And in my config.yaml, I specified my desired path format like so:
+...
+paths:
+  default: $albumartist - $album%aunique{}/$track $title
+
+   Finally, running:
+$ beet import --noautotag --move --group-albums path/to/dirty/music
+
+$ tree ~/music
+...
+
+104 directories, 1108 files
+
+   Nice! gonic then happily scanned all my music.
+
+actually streaming this music
+
+   On my laptop, I decided to just use the NFS share approach -- primarily
+   because I'd like to stick to cmus and desktop Subsonic clients like
+   [6]Sublime Music are very clunky.
+
+   On Android, there are quite a few options on F-Droid -- I decided to go
+   with [7]Ultrasonic since it's the only one that supports Last.fm
+   scrobbling.
+
+   All things considered, I think I'm pretty satisfied with this. `twas a
+   good weekend.
+
+References
+
+   1. https://github.com/sentriz/gonic
+   2. https://www.navidrome.org/
+   3. https://airsonic.github.io/
+   4. https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/issues/89
+   5. https://beets.io/
+   6. https://gitlab.com/sublime-music/sublime-music
+   7. https://github.com/ultrasonic/ultrasonic