Hacker News: dangravell

New comment by dangravell in "Show HN: Rmp, a Subsonic music player for generating playlists on the fly"

dangravell — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:48:45 +0000

Not sure if you've seen it but AudioMuse-AI covers similar ground: https://github.com/NeptuneHub/AudioMuse-AI-MusicServer

New comment by dangravell in "Show HN: Musefs – organize and tag music without touching the original files"

dangravell — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:42:44 +0000

That's what I mean by continuous automation, using rules (constraints) to dictate how the library is managed (in your case, what beets does, e.g. auto download art of the given size and format, constrain the genre etc etc).

New comment by dangravell in "Show HN: Musefs – organize and tag music without touching the original files"

dangravell — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:07:33 +0000

Nice approach. I'm the developer of https://www.blisshq.com/ and other projects. The key insight there is that managing large collections is easier with rules applied continuously, rather than thoughts-in-the-moment "I'll run a batch command with a tagger".

You could have the rules encoded in your config (or the DB) and apply those. For example, someone may want a "portable mirror" of their gold library, but that means transcoding AND chopping the embedded album art to size (or maybe their player has max resolutions).

I guess having the DB means you could potentially version control the metadata changes?

New comment by dangravell in "Tinysub: Simple web player for subsonic compatible music servers"

dangravell — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:03:14 +0000

Tried it with Astiga (I'm the operator - https://play.asti.ga) but it gives a "NetworkError" - I guess a CORS issue.

New comment by dangravell in "Show HN: A navigable map and recommender for 17M music entities"

dangravell — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:12:21 +0000

At the back end of the 90s I did some work with self-organizing maps - collapsing multi dimensional space into a 2D map. I think it's interesting as a data visualisation approach. This looks similar but I'm totally out of date with where SOM went.

When you say 128d space, what are the data that are represented, exactly?

New comment by dangravell in "Robert Kaye from MusicBrainz has passed away"

dangravell — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:42:04 +0000

I first met Rob in 2012 (https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Summit/2012_Mini-Su...). His enthusiasm, intelligence and drive were, and remained, evident; a truly impressive person to work with.

Truly, one of the Internet's good guys, and the type of positive force we can all take inspiration from.

New comment by dangravell in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

dangravell — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:48:25 +0000

Fantastic - thanks!

New comment by dangravell in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

dangravell — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:54:00 +0000

Not only do A&A offer good speeds, their customer service is exceptional. There are chat rooms on which engineers and enthusiasts reside and if you phone them you get an engineer.

New comment by dangravell in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

dangravell — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:52:58 +0000

Is there a way of testing two points to see if they can communicate with each other before I go to the trouble of wiring to a rj45 endpoint?

I'm not convinced socket A can talk to socket B when, for example, socket B is in an extension, or... or...

New comment by dangravell in "Meko – A High-Performance E-Ink Bluetooth Music Player with Tactile Controls"

dangravell — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:57:51 +0000

As a complete hardware newbie, how would I go about starting creating the PCB? You have something codified for the case, but not the circuitry.

New comment by dangravell in "Offline Music, and MP3s and/or FLACs"

dangravell — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:45:58 +0000

OP could use something like mp3fs to make the transition from MP3 to FLAC less painful where MP3s are still required - it's a lazy mirror of a FLAC collection to MP3.

New comment by dangravell in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

dangravell — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:13:23 +0000

(Disclaimer: this relates to the commercial project I run, but it is directly answering the parent)

It's not self hosted, more a middle-ground between rented Spotify and self hosted data sovereignty, but this is what we do at https://asti.ga . You store your music in some Internet-accessible storage, such as any S3 compatible endpoint, and Astiga connects and streams your library (and provides offline etc etc). AMA.

New comment by dangravell in "Show HN: A Digital CD Shelf as the UI for Music Streaming Libraries"

dangravell — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:52:48 +0000

You could get images from multiple perspectives from the Cover Art Archive (via MusicBrainz). E.g. https://musicbrainz.org/release/a4f190d5-c752-4ebd-8d2f-925a... . It would be very cool if the spine could be rendered, although it's not always split from the back image (I guess because of the post processing after scanning).

New comment by dangravell in "Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker"

dangravell — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:37:29 +0000

Yes - and/or data sovereignty.

New comment by dangravell in "Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates"

dangravell — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:57:41 +0000

The tragedy of of this is that these are improvements that would actually improve life in these houses - making them healthier, more comfortable. Trouble is, retrofit is expensive.

New comment by dangravell in "I Don't Have Spotify"

dangravell — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:55:57 +0000

Yes, downloading is important as even download sites can redact later - e.g. https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/70250-qobuz-may-be-...

Another source are good ol' CDs. If you know where to look you can get them cheap too. Specialist charity shops that specialise in records and CDs in student or wealthy areas are good, as are second hand stores online.

An alternative to self hosting is to use an online music locker. I wrote up a bunch here: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0... and (disclaimer) operate one myself: https://asti.ga

New comment by dangravell in "Ask HN: Would requiring musicians to release only singles improve music quality?"

dangravell — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:37:24 +0000

There's an assumption here that the first class concept is the song. Maybe it's the album?

New comment by dangravell in "Ask HN: Is there a music library app that sits on top of streaming services?"

dangravell — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:09:26 +0000

Sounds like a self hosted last.fm but with access delegation for the streaming services?

New comment by dangravell in "A retrospective on a year without streaming music"

dangravell — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:09:44 +0000

Pretty sure the payout follows a Pareto distribution with the "catalogue" artists doing very well and your smaller artists... not so much.

New comment by dangravell in "Ask HN: "Dumb" music players with stream support?"

dangravell — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:27:33 +0000

You can get Android based music players (DAPs e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalAudioPlayer/ ) which you could install software which streams when online, uses local storage when offline. Look into the Subsonic protocol - many music servers support this and it has built in support for this online/offline dichotomy.