Damn that is a nice setup lol. I only built mine a couple years ago and only managed to get 5x 16TB drives at $169 each. I have 4 in the system and one cold spare.
I have tended to avoid cli on TrueNas mostly out of fear that I’ll mess something up and I’ll be too lazy to fix it. That was my main motivation behind switching to Dockge for containers, it even shows apps running through other container management systems, although you can’t manage them through there.
I have a single dataset running off of an ssd pool that stores config and application data. Large media gets stored on a separate pool on spinning disks. The app dataset gets snapshotted and backed up, but I am yet to create a separate offsite backup.
I am also in the process of switching away from TrueNas “Apps” to actual Docker containers running from compose files in Dockge. These compose files all get version controlled in Git as well. Apps have been really difficult to configure initially as many of the fields have odd requirements you can’t see until it errors on startup. I have found it easier to follow the documentation directly from the application I am installing so compose files have been much more straightforward.
Yeah I am not in a hurry to switch but I would like to at some point. But with android becoming more closed source every month it seems, I am more curious about switching to a linux mobile OS if that becomes viable in the future.
I have mostly been pushing myself to degoogle and self host to achieve my privacy concerns and in that regard I have been relatively successful. Switching to an open source OS is just the next major step that I am not sure I am ready for just yet. I do already run bazzite and arch on my desktop and laptop though so the phone is really the only thing I have left to switch.
Lidarr has a Spotify playlist syncing feature built in. You can set it to sync certain playlists and it will automatically add those artists to Lidarr. I think you can also configure it to monitor/download only the albums which the songs in your playlist come from, or download the whole artists discography.
I can’t attest to the quality of Usenet or private trackers for music as I don’t use either (mostly public trackers for movies and tv) but public trackers weren’t the easiest to get all the music I needed. I ended up using Slskd, a frontend for SoulSeek, with the Tubifarry plugin to connect to Lidarr and it is much easier to find releases now.
The next issue I have yet to tackle is porting those playlists to a player for Navidrome. If anyone finds a simple way to do so please let me know!
Listenbrainz requires you to make what you listen to public as it is part of the open source project. If that is something you are worried about I think there are alternatives to explo that use last.fm but that is closed source as far as I know.
As others have said, buy stuff from small bands on band camp or at shows or something and pirate from whoever you see fit.
EDIT: I also should have noted, this is a self hosted setup that requires a server to be online unless you download your tracks to your client device. If you want a single device alternative, I am not personally sure what to recommend.
Yeah I am pretty comfortable with CLI on linux, but I just never bothered with TrueNas. Also I am lazy and once something works I just leave it there even when I could improve it lol.
I have been meaning to venture into Proxmox as well but I don’t have the time or spare parts to get a new machine running atm. Maybe someday I’ll get around to it though as it seems like a nice playground without breaking things.