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+ "excerpt": "Self-hosting a music server is great.\nListening to the tunes via the command line is the way.",
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+ "title": "Command-line interfaces for self-hosted music"
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+# Command-line interfaces for self-hosted music
+
+<time id="post-date">2023-09-28</time>
+
+<p id="post-excerpt">
+Self-hosting a music server is great.
+Listening to the tunes via the command line is the way.
+</p>
+
+## Subsonic-compatible server backbone
+
+I have Navidrome installed (via Docker on NixOS).
+It's very nice.
+
+With a reverse proxy, tailscale, and LetsEncrypt set up,
+I can access it via any Subsonic-compatible music player at
+<https://music.beauslab.casa>
+(this URL is available only on my tailnet, so it will 404 for everyone else).
+
+
+## Desktop GUI interfaces
+
+Sublime-music is pretty good.
+I also find myself using the Navidrome web UI pretty often.
+
+(On mobile, [Symfonium](https://symfonium.app/) (paid) or [SubStreamer](https://substreamerapp.com/) on Android
+and [play:Sub](http://michaelsapps.dk/playsubapp/) (paid) or [SubStreamer](https://substreamerapp.com/) (free) on iOS are my go-tos,
+though there are many [others](http://www.subsonic.org/pages/apps.jsp))
+
+## CLI interfaces: contenders (STMP, jellycli, sksonic)
+
+If I'm in programming mode,
+I prefer command-line interfaces,
+particularly if they let me use keyboard muscle-memory (i.e. vi bindings).
+
+As such, I tried a few CLI front-ends to access and play my Navidrome-served tunes.
+
+I'm sure there are others.
+
+[STMP](https://github.com/wildeyedskies/stmp/tree/main)
+is clean and works well, but doesn't have vi bindings yet.
+
+[jellycli](https://github.com/tryffel/jellycli/tree/master) is the most polished,
+and uses vi bindings,
+but even so the in-app nav is finicky and doesn't quite fit my brain
+(though that might be mostly due to conflicts with other terminal keybindings I have set up).
+
+[sksonic](https://gitlab.com/yvelon/sksonic) is a suckless-style implementation in C, e.g. edit config.h and recompile.
+It works, but isn't polished enough for daily usage
+(though I don't expect it to be - the author states it's a personal project,
+and I think they're doing a great job, so will keep an eye on it).
+Partial vi-key support, could pretty easily be added given the suckless style.
+
+
+## CLI interfaces: the one I picked (ncmpcpp with mopidy backend)
+
+After these, I found myself wishing that I could use [ncmpcpp](https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp) and hook it up to my Subsonic back end.
+
+And then I realized:
+hey, this is a Linux TUI,
+and ncmpcpp is just a front-end for [mpd](https://www.musicpd.org/),
+of course you can switch out mpd for something that's Subsonic-aware.
+
+ncmpcpp is beautiful, polished, fast, with great vi-key support, and I've been using it for years for local music playback.
+
+[mopidy](https://mopidy.com/) is a fairly drop-in mpd replacement that is pluggable,
+with a number of awesome [extensions](https://mopidy.com/ext/).
+
+I should have looked here first. C'est la vie.
+
+I perused a few blog posts to get a sense of what to do:
+- [fsylum's post](https://fsylum.net/blog/setting-up-ncmpcpp-mopidy-spotify-arch-linux/)
+- [Deepjyoti Barman's post](https://blog.deepjyoti30.dev/using-spotify-with-ncmpcpp-mopidy-linux)
+- [Digital Neanderthals' post](https://www.digitalneanderthal.com/post/ncmpcpp/) (what a great online moniker, well done - his physical setup is also a delight, sheer cyberdeck practicality)
+
+It's pretty easy.
+
+The rad thing is that you can get a unified frontend for all your sources,
+e.g. Subsonic, Spotify, local files, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.,
+just install a plugin and add a config section and you're off to the races,
+never having to leave the terminal.
+
+
+> Source selection (could have many more items here).
+
+
+
+
+> Artist selection.
+
+
+
+
+> Track view.
+
+
+
+
+## Set up
+
+### Install the things
+
+My main laptop still runs Arch (btw).
+If I ever switch to NixOS on this machine,
+or add this setup to the NixOS server,
+I'll probably make a new post with the Nix way to do this.
+I bet it's hardly different, other than the `.nix` files.
+
+e.g. `paru -S ncmpcpp mopidy mopidy-subidy mopidy-mpd`
+
+Also uninstall and stop mpd, if you're using it.
+
+### Config files
+
+(most of the what's in the files below is unnecessary for this post,
+but I've never been mad that someone posted their whole config)
+
+(also note that the mopidy config file doesn't allow # comments,
+I just used them for ease of reading with syntax highlighting,
+will have to delete prior to actually using)
+
+`~/.config/ncmpcpp/config`
+
+```sh
+ncmpcpp_directory = ~/.config/ncmpcpp
+lyrics_directory = ~/.config/lyrics
+
+progressbar_look = ->
+display_volume_level = no
+
+autocenter_mode = yes
+message_delay_time = 1
+
+playlist_display_mode = columns
+playlist_editor_display_mode = columns
+browser_display_mode = columns
+
+media_library_primary_tag = album_artist
+media_library_albums_split_by_date = no
+
+ignore_leading_the = yes
+ignore_diacritics = yes
+external_editor = vim
+use_console_editor = yes
+```
+
+`~/.config/mopidy/mopidy.conf`
+
+```sh
+[core]
+cache_dir = $XDG_CACHE_DIR/mopidy
+config_dir = $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/mopidy
+data_dir = $XDG_DATA_DIR/mopidy
+max_tracklist_length = 10000
+restore_state = true
+
+[file] # might switch out for mopidy-local at some point, adds search support via sqlite metadata archive
+enabled = true
+media_dirs =
+ ~/media/tunes
+excluded_file_extensions =
+ .directory
+ .html
+ .jpeg
+ .jpg
+ .log
+ .nfo
+ .pdf
+ .png
+ .txt
+ .zip
+show_dotfiles = false
+follow_symlinks = false
+metadata_timeout = 1000
+
+[m3u]
+playlists_dir = $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/mopidy/playlists
+
+[mpd]
+enabled = true
+hostname = 127.0.0.1
+port = 6600 # defaults ftw - no change to ncmpcpp config needed if defaults are kept
+max_connections = 20
+connection_timeout = 60
+
+[subidy]
+enabled = true
+url = https://music.beauslab.casa
+username = admin
+password = admin # behind a tailnet anyway, come at me bro
+api_version = 1.16
+```
+
+## Future goals
+
+- snapcast for whole-house audio ([Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/icjmiq/a_music_server_with_a_tli_client/) with some good tips)
