jmtd → log → Navidrome

Now it's easy for machines to interact with locally-running containers, I can more easily try out lots of web-apps and see if they're useful for me or my family.

First up, Navidrome.

before streaming music

I was a hold-out on carrying around my music collection on a portable music player for a long time, most recently with a hacked ipod, but before that a series of Sandisk Sansa devices, an early ipod clone, and of course before that minidiscs and walkmans.

I fell out of the habit of using the iPod for two reasons: the move to wireless headphones for my phone (forced by the removal of the phono socket from modern phones) added a bit of friction, but the lack of an FM tuner in the iPod meant switching devices to flick between music and the Radio.

The second reason was during the Pandemic I didn't need to use a portable device at all, as I didn't leave the house. (I at least spent some time with my old vinyl collection)

post-Pandemic

Once we pretended the Pandemic was over and started going out again, I didn't pick up the iPod, and either exclusively listened to the radio, or a limited amount of music locally on my phone, or occasionally used a streaming service like Spotify.

bandcamp...

Navidrome, Subsonic API

Navidrome is...

iOS clients

There are several iOS clients, at least two of which are free and open source: Amperfyand Substreamer.

Whilst my Navidrome instance is available at home only, the apps work fine in that environment, and I can choose to download a set of tracks, which then play fine when I'm out and the app can't talk to the server.

Depending on where I get to with WireGuard, I might move to having the Navidrome server available out and about, too.