FileBot Thanks, looks promising. Only problem closed source. I do not mind to pay for license, but do not like running unknown code on my server.

Yeh, it seems the only good way. But will bring so much not needed function to the mix.

Thanks, I will check out TinyMediaManager.

NFS / Shares - over complicated. Just syncthing it around (and snapshot on backup server), for nearly static data as music it is perfect.

albums one by one with --timid flag. You are using Navidrome , than you music should be well tagged already. Should be fast and easy, just repeat it 2000 time. You can also disable lockups and just import “as is” if you trust your taggig

Sorry, not mbuff but mbuffer. It just adding a memory buffer between STDIN and STDOUT. Useful to smooth data flow, so reading from disk do not need to wait for SSH to transmit and other way around. In you case it cold be something like that. ( I’m writing command from memory, do not use it unless checked)

dd if=/dev/sda bs=16M | mbuffer -s 128k -m 2G -o - | ssh remoteuser@remote.host.com dd of=/storage/backup.img

nfs over the internet is usually bad idea. Network delays is killer for NFS. You can use ssh instead. And add some mbuff for better results.

beets + navidrome is the answer. beets organises music collection and enriches metadata with thinks like lyric and images. navidrome just serve it.

Check their contribution rules. https://github.com/versity/versitygw/wiki/Contributing-Changes
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All new files in the change should have the versitygw copyright and license headers.

Versity S3 Gateway is Apache‑licensed, backed by a commercial entity. Their contribution agreement forces you to give up copyright to them. It will follow the same path as Minio over time.

Garage has one big flaw. Access control tools are nearly non existent.

you are mistaken about it. There is a lots of other use for ipfs.

With AI search engines hosting public repo is very expensive.

With raid 10 - i would not risk it . With RAID6 ( obviously not on BTRFS) it is fair game if you have solid return policy for drives which are DOA. Go for SAS drives, they are cheaper (but generally hotter and nosier). And look for old-new-stock on specialized sites, no one in enterprise needs say 8tb drives, so they selling them cheap at times.

Get drive, connect , run long smart self-test ( for 18tb it is probably take a day). If it passed you are reasonably sure that it will not die soon. And keep running these test regularly, as soon as they start failing, replace.