Lidarr for discographies and keeping up with releases, deemix for downloading singles direct from deezer. I often only like one song from a release and hate having to filter through full discographies to find the one thing I like, so this works great for me. Deemix is also blazingly fast.
This all goes to jellyfin and i play it on my phone with symphonium.
Post length capped unless you pay Emotes can’t be used between servers uses you pay Tiny Image upload limit (unless you pay) Profile decoration requires payment and is basically a blaring ad Can’t readjust UI size Nitro and server boosts as a whole Ads. So many fucking ads. You dont notice them until you try another platform, but i needed to pop in to check a post history thing and my GOD the amount of ads
I recommend looking into rssbridge too! Its a companion that makes most websites rssable
MAM has some comics and manga, but its not extensive.
Cinny and sable (cinny fork) both work fine as PWAs on desktop, windows and Linux. I’m running both on multiple machines and my phone
My homelab is a learning tool that became useful enough to keep some things alive. It started with a raspperry pi and docker and has evolved to multiple systems with backups and some decently complex networking.
Ive always seen a “homelab” as different from a “home server”. Homelabs are meant to be fucked up as you learn things. Have a home lab long enough and you end up with a test lab and production environment.
I vastly prefer it to calibre web personally, but it’s all up to personal preference. Kavita has a pretty extensive user guide too
I use calibre to label books by series. I don’t think I did anything crazy with the folder structure outside of putting comics, manga, and books in separate directories.
I have one media directory with books / manga / comics in separate subdirectories. I process metadata with calibre or other tools as needed, and point Kavita at my books directory and tell it to scan. Kavita should automatically group books of the same series together provided the series name is exact. (eg: “The adventures of Bob” vs “adventures of Bob, The” would be seen as different series. Kavita should also group the libraries together by directory, so I have 3 libraries, books, manga, and comics.
You do need to make sure books are all in the correct formats. I batch convert everything to epub and limit Kavita to only show epubs to avoid duplicates.
The upside to all this is that Kavita comes with a cleaner interface imho, opds is easier to set up, and I’ve had less issues with it. Also users can set their own reading lists and collections if you are setting this up for other users.
For books: mam (manually now that readarr died) -> calibre -> Kavita
If it’s a manga or comic, bypass calibre, straight to Kavita + komf for metadata / covers.
I literally use matrix voice for my d&d group every week lol, just join a server that has voice
Only thing I dislike is the lack of software based noise cancelling is a bit awkward but very managable
Have you tried suwayomi? Its a desktop version of tachiyomi and uses tbe same plugins.ive found it very solid and has been around for a long time.