I’ve been asked multiple times about how to make a decent FOSS music server as minimal as possible, and people are rarely happy when told to RTFM. I have come to some sort of a conclusion that not all people I talk to have all the patience in the world to make their tools work as they want them to, or know how they want them in the first place (mostly the 1337 h4xx0r image many have from hearing “I use (GNU/)Linux”; I feel this is a bit more than just a problem, and the fact that I’m a picky prick on what I touch and use doesn’t help, but this isn’t quite what I wanted to write about). That’s next: setting up an MPD server and installing a client (probably Cantata or MPDroid, ncmpcpp — and other TUI apps — are out of the question), together with a simple overview of beets and Picard (both are library managers based on the MusicBrainz database/service).

On the other hand, OSCAL is nearing and I know what I’m talking about out there, but something needs to be prepped up. I guess this will probably be some sort of roadmap:

  1. Finish with OSCAL and totel
  2. Set up a music server
  3. git the hang of Pandoc
  4. TL;DR-ify Ansible during the summer

In the meantime, I’m still fidgeting with Vim to get it to do what I want in 4 keypresses and 1 second at most. I’ll definitely show the setup in detail to get some beginners off the ground, but please don’t just copy and paste. Please Learn Vimscript the Hard Way.