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Not OP, but gonic is very lightweight and takes little resources. It lives on a machine that serves a few websites and also hosts my photos with photoprism (by far the most resource intensive service on this server). It's a basic N100 machine with 8GB RAM.

As for my music, although I own a physical copy of most of it that I bought legally, I downloaded almost everything through bittorrent as is easier than ripping CDs.

A sizable part of my collection consists of things I was unable to buy because it's unavailable here or unavailable at all, though. Some albums I received from friends. I don't feel guilty about it, to be clear.

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Yep. Same with Plex. I used to run it with 1.2 GHz dual core Intel Atom. I always encode to 128 kbps Opus when I stream my music and I'm not on Wi-Fi. It took about 300-500ms until the music started when I pressed play. The CPU usage was very low even when actively encoding.

The only thing that takes a bit more of CPU is if you have a huge music collection (I have about 2.5 TB), and you do the first metadata and album art scan over the collection. Otherwise you can run these systems with a potato.

    > Otherwise you can run these systems with a potato.

Crikey: This gave me a laugh like none other in a while. For anyone else who doesn't get the reference, you can build a very basic battery from a potato, e.g., https://stemgeneration.org/potato-power/

Now, I would love to see a YouTube video where someone tries to power a portable music player from a battery. Could a PiZero be done?

For extra entredre points try and get it to run on this release [1].

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPotato

I have 700 via those tools but then my current Spotify/Apple Music list must be close to 1500 and I shudder at the thought of hunting the rest of 800 down on P2P here and there. So I was wondering is there a way to do it in one shot or few shots as a batch/automated process.

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The „starr“ Apps generally allow importing lists to automatically hunt down the items on P2P and upgrade your local versions if better qualities are found. I’m not sure if it directly supports Spotify/Apple Music lists though.

Sadly I have almost stopped using pvt p2p or otherwise. I also never had anything other than a basic ruT setup. I guess it's about things like Radarr etc. I would not know where to begin with them. Will try to use something other user have suggested.

How many TB of photos can you comfortably have in photoprism? I mostly use date-systems, so I could turn off the "ai" if that's resource-intensive.

Can it "stream" previews and then offer full-size downloads? (I'm looking for something that can offer previews + downloads so I can quickly find photos from my home archive when I'm out with my laptop or phone)

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