Besides keeping the Lyrion Music Server (previously Logitech Media Server) up-to-date it’s important to keep your players (or clients) up-to-date too. For the Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Radio and Squeezebox Controller firmware is available that is maintained by the Squeezebox community. This firmware is the work of Squeezebox community members lead by a Squeezebox user named […]
Category: open source
After mysqueezebox.com has shut down, Squeezebox audio player and its server software are still very much alive. Instead of relying on mysqueezebox one has to setup their own media server (which can be done on cheap low end hardware and isn’t as hard a it may seem). Previously the software was called Logitech Media Server […]
A list of my favorite FLOSS programs for the PC (mostly) divided into several categories.
In this blog post I’ll continue a previous post about polyhedron in OpenSCAD. Now we create something more exiting, a twisted vase.
When my Mastodon instance was down I took another shot at Friendica. Here are my thoughts about it.
Funkwhale is a social platform to enjoy and share music. As part of the Fediverse Funkwhale is not only an audio server and player, it aspires to be a place for socializing around music and discovering new content. Below are some tips for the developers to improve Funkwhale.
I found an example on Thingiverse, a rubber band powered boat with two peddle wheels, but it has two problems. First of all the author only provides .stl files and second the design is a bit flawed. I therefore decided to design the boat from scratch with the 3d CAD program OpenSCAD. With OpenSCAD I’m […]
Moving to Free and Open Source on the PC can be a very daunting task for someone that is used to a proprietary system. This is how I did it.
Why create your own music library and why use the free and open source MusicBrainz Picard for this.
Parametric design of a simple hook in, the free and open source, OpenSCAD. Use with the Customizer in OpenSCAD