• havent figured out how to rate well when driving. Definitely a PITA.
• i considered skipped counts a bit, but ultimately felt it would end up hiding songs that were good but required me to be in a specific mood to appreciate. I wanted to be the judge of if something was good and feel free to skip good things when I felt like it.
• another thing my suite was missing was the new music discovery story. Made a personal app myself to fill that gap, but would love to see a more robust community solution someday. Maybe ill give it a proper dev pass someday and publish

Star ratings and smart playlists! Oh my! I love this stuff. Im currently using plex, which allows for half stars since im a masochist

I dont know that I need the full ten options, but 5 wasn’t quite enough for me. If there was like 7 star system id do that, hah.

• 0.5 - I would delete if other people weren’t listening to the library. Never play again
• 1 - on my shitlist. Unless something changes, will probably go to 0.5 stars the next time I hear it.
• 1.5 to 2 - Not opposed, but forgettable or slightly not my style
• 2.5 - average content. Not memorable but fine
• 3 - solid content, still not memorable
• 3.5 - the good stuff. I’ll put it on a solo car ride and generally not skip
• 4 - Amazing songs. If I was to put a Playlist on for other people and not worry about it
• 4.5 - Favorite songs. Maybe a fault or two but will still stay with me for a lifetime
• 5 - Id play these for anyone without hesitation and then look at them and say “was that not perfection?!”

For smart playlists:

• playlists by star rating
  • alts for excluding facemelting stuff to play in public
• Car ride - 3.5 stars and up + havent heard in a month
• “Frontier” playlist. Only play things i havent heard in a year that aren’t 0.5 stars

I generally listen to my frontier Playlist and try to rate as I go. Other playlists for when im listening but busy and just want the good stuff.

I havent found a good way to tag on the go, unfortunately. Maybe someday

I use pangolin as the front, which checks in with Authentik as the SSO before it lets anyone through to the actual apps. Pangolin itself acts a bit like my reverse proxy so my caddy takes a back seat and isnt used for too much. Pangolin comes with crowdsec as well.

Sounds great in theory, but I always feel bad transforming my data too much so I can no longer seed, hah. Maybe someday

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My baseline is a public VPS with Pangolin/Crowdsec installed. I have authentik as a login system. Pangolin let’s me put authentik in front of any service so they have to log into it before it gets to the service in question whatsoever. This is different than the app itself just using Authentik as the OIDC provider. Helps give a bit of peace of mind with the services which themselves might not be security focused. Also, these pangolin routes are able to block anything outside my country by rules, so that trims a good portion of attacks as well.

Some things don’t like that authentik layer in front though. Audiobookshelf’s phone app for example cant handle it. For that, I route those domains through cloudflare tunnels. Their tunnels do a good job blocking lots of attacks, so not having authentik in front is more acceptable.

But then there’s jellyfin that doesnt want to be on cloudflare tunnels and doesnt want authentik in front. For that, I just have it on my pangolin side with only crowdsec helping. Not ideal, but best I can do without making my grandma install a VPN on a raspberry pi in so her TV can connect or some shit.

And lastly, I have some private services like forgejo that don’t like authentik in front and only I myself care about. I tailscale to those rather than exposing sometimes.

What youre talking about is having an app refer to authentik to find out who a user is.

Internet -> audiobookshelf -> asks authentik who it is

In addition to that, you can set pangolin up so that it doesnt even hit that app in the first place at all unless the user is already signed into authentik.

Internet -> pangolin makes user log into authentik before forwarding along -> audiobookshelf -> asks authentik who it is

So if the app in question has a security vulnerability, its not a problem because no one even gets to the app at all to begin to try to exploit it unless they’ve logged into authentik first.

My baseline is a public VPS with Pangolin/Crowdsec installed. I have authentik as a login system. Pangolin let’s me put authentik in front of any service so they have to log in hit before the service in question. Helps give a bit of peace of mind with the services which themselves might not be security focused. Also, these pangolin routes are able to block anything outside my country by rules, so that trims a good portion of attacks as well.

Some things don’t like that authentik layer in front though. Audiobookshelf’s phone app for example cant handle it. For that, I route those domains through cloudflare tunnels. Their tunnels do a good job blocking lots of attacks, so not having authentik in front is more acceptable.

But then there’s jellyfin that doesnt want to be on cloudflare tunnels and doesnt want authentik in front. For that, I just have it on my pangolin side with only crowdsec helping. Not ideal, but best I can do without making my grandma install a VPN on a raspberry pi in so her TV can connect or some shit.

And lastly, I have some private services like forgejo that don’t like authentik in front and only I myself care about. I tailscale to those rather than exposing sometimes.

Only other thing I think I need to add sometime is some VLAN separations?

I think the thing is, every news cycle there IS a few people who’s time has come. And so jellyfin is brought up

I say this as someone who has a plex lifetime and is still using plex. I appreciate everyone getting riled up and passionate, because that means the fallback will be that much more polished when my time comes.

You sound like someone pulling up the ladder and yelling at the people below to shut up. Anyone new to the space is dealing with this absurd $750 lifetime price. Of course they’re yelling