Hello based people of lemmy,

I have recently started trying out BSDs as an alternative to Linux and found out that Spotify isn’t supported. Before you say try it in a browser this doesn’t work as spotify has DRM that doesn’t work on BSD OSes.

Now is there a way to stream music similar to Spotify? I know there is a downloader program available.

Furthermore do you know what self-hosted options are available? I already have a basic *arr stack and am always up for convoluted server and Linux hijinks.

  • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Okay I will probably move to FreeBSD proper eventually. I am still new to this though and likely to break things. I don’t want to have to go through a whole process every time I mess up to get a usable working system until I actually know what I am doing.

      • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yeah this might be the way. I have created a FreeBSD current USB drive to install off of. I am thinking the newer slightly less stable version has less GPU issues as that seems to be the main factor.

        • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
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          9 months ago

          That almost certainly untrue. Do not run CURRENT, it has INVARIANTS and WITNESS enabled that will make it painfully slow.

          • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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            9 months ago

            That’s good to know. Is there also a way to suppress error messages in the installer? They fill the whole screen from one repeating message and I can’t actually install it because of that.

              • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Did I say CURRENT? I meant STABLE. Which is weird because shouldn’t something called stable be the version you release, but release is a separate one. It’s confusing.

                • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  You need to read the handbook before you start spouting judgments about the releng process.

                  STABLE is cut from CURRENT. RELEASE is cut from STABLE.

                  • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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                    9 months ago

                    Yeah I got that thanks. It’s a very odd way to label things. It doesn’t follow industry standards which are normally: alpha, beta, release candidate, release.

                    Or even the debian method of: unstable, testing, stable, oldstable.