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

    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.

                • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  Please quote me the relevant “industry standards.” It is all perspective, and FreeBSD releng certainly does not cater to what some rando online might think is an intuitive way to name release trains. This has been done this way for 30 years.