Christopher

Doesn’t “consider [themselves] to be an advanced PC user…”

Picks Arch as their first Linux distro.

Found Linus Sebastian.

Am I having a stroke?

Yes indeed. It’s now failing. 😞

Man, this kind of sucks.

I wrote a nifty script a few years ago that pulls the popularity metric of a song, converts that to a star rating, and writes that to a tag with Mutagen. At a glance I can see the hits. If I like the track, I’ll “love” it (side stepping the need for a personal rating). It’s a system that’s been serving me well for a long time.

Locking down APIs does seem to be the trend. I’m not sure I’ll look to adapt.

Giving money to Spotify is out of the question, but I may pay for Deezer or something.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but I host an instance of Audiobookshelf on my LAN. It pulls podcasts via RSS automatically. Handles metadata. Accessable everywhere. Has a web and phone client (again, the phone’s not what you need, but it’s there).

Runs well on a Pi. With docker, you’d be set up in minutes.

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