All these posts about tailscale have to be native advertising from bots.

There is no way someone interested in selfhosting would actually choose to route all their traffic through a closed source unknown third party’s servers like tailscale.

This is the antithesis of selfhosting especially when wireguard and high quality $3/month vps solutions exist.

I do not understand portainer what does it actually do?

I use docker-compose, its pretty simple, easy to manage and it seems to do what I want, what would portainer give me that I am missing now?

so in order for your friends and family to access your jellyfin server they have to first install and configure the tailscsle client on their devices then install and configure jellyfin?

I agree with this assessment. You do not need an overlay mesh network like tailscale for your use case that is way overkill.

And if you are running Jellyfin as opposed to Plex then you probably care about realizing the security benefits of open source so you definately don’t need a closed source proprietary solution like tailscale or creating accounts on someone elses computer for protection from x. Cloudflair is selling a closed source solution to a problem you don’t have.

This is selfhosting yet these recommendations are all for signing up for accounts and software from the largest centralized systems on the Internet and routing all your traffic through Oracle or cloudflair, lol If your going to do that then why not just host everything with Amazon or switch to Google products. You don’t need any of that noise.

Your best bet is to create a reverse proxy- a single ingress point in front of those few services with a single open port. Pick whatever web server you want your server already has Apache and it like 10 lines of config very simple.

So why not just use wireguard?

Is Obsidian FOSS? Im not sure why I see posters mentioning this app recently instead of Joplin.

This only works of you have open ports to obtain and renew the cert from the commercial provider, many self hosters do not have this option.

To use lets encrypt or any other acme client you either need port 80 or 443 open. As I mentioned, this is not an option for many self hosters who have these poets closed by their ISPs.

Are you sure this ISP is not using CGNAT? If it is then you wont have access to port forwarding.

The Immich app does not support self signed ssl certs which is unfortunate for a self hosted app since many home users have ISP imposed restrictions which makes getting a cert from a commercial provider difficult or impossible.

Most other selfhosted apps do not have this problem.

If you want to selfhost this is an excellent and well maintained cross platform solution.

This used to be the right answer but it was abandoned 2 years ago. Lots of unfixable bugs if you want to self host.

Floccus has similar functionality and an active developer and community.

How did beets mess up your library? Any data corruption inthr id3 tags?

How did they get messed up, did the embedded tags become corrupt?

No Linux client, really?

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Is symfonium FOSS?

Does airsonic support smartplaylists like navidrome does?

I see navidrome has smart playlist support. Do any of the various subsonic clients that work with of support smart playlists?

Custom field support- TXXX is also nice but I was refering to the id3v2 standard fields. It looks like beets doesn’t support most fields actually.

How about composer or conductor for classical tracks or remix for EDM, language, grouping, media type, mood etc.

These tags have been part of the id3 standard for over 2 decades, I wonder why beets choose not to support then.

I read that doc but sadly most fields are missing. I cant see beets being useful for any serious collection without basic field support.

Its too bad, beets looks promising but Linux lacks an open source solution with decent id3 tag support. There are several windows apps (all closed source) that have been around for a long time with very good comprehensive id3 tag support but none foe Linux.