Id suggest giving the video a watch might give dome ideas of how you could use it + its a great watch!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

I guess I will try to use it for my music collection. It seems a much better option than Nextcloud, with the built-in music player etc. 🎶

I'm using my extra hard drives for CP too!

At least with Cyberpunk we have a number e.g. CP77

Is a C-Party one of those sexy sex terms that people who are hip sexy swingers would understand

if you just care about listening to mp3s across all your devices then navidrome is a good choice imo. because it supports the subsonic api, there are a lot of good players for it like feishin for desktop and dsub for android and a built-in web player.

as for sharing music, soulseek is already pretty established for this. it basically allows you to search for and download music from anyone on the network (remember to share some yourself, it's good manners).

the setup i use is basically a server (all these programs are pretty light, so you can probably run it on a spare laptop or even a raspberry pi) with:

• slskd as a constantly running soulseek client, allowing me to download music to my server through the built-in web interface
• beets, to automatically tag any music i download, based on information from musicbrainz. you can configure slskd to run commands when downloads finish, so i just run beets to import any new music
• navidrome as the server to actually serve all the music

the only real gripe i have with this setup is that while navidrome has support for multiple users, so i can easily allow friends to listen to my music collection, slskd doesn't have that (yet, it's planned), so if someone wants music added to the server they have to ask me to download it through slskd, which is a bit tedious. it works really well if you're the only person using it though

I watched a video from the author last week, he mentioned there's a pull request in progress for a new UI. Agreed, this one 'aint it..

It seems it comes with 9 different themes.

Personally, I find the UI decent, specially considering it runs even on ie6, and that it's ok for mobile devices too.

It has a cooler name.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

It sadly doesn't support SFTP. Would switch if it did.

I’m not very good at this but I think that would be easy to achieve. You can upload a large file ie a 4gb movie to your copyparty server, and then send your friend a link which they can use to access the file from a web browser. You’d need to sort permissions and access, etc.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0