Music Reviews (English)
Here I have posted the names of English language albums I either recommend or were part of my “Albums of the Year” lists, what genre they are, and my favourite top three tracks. I’ll rank them slightly, with them all worth checking out, though some more highly recommended than others:
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
They have been initially posted in a random order, and then the newest entries added to the bottom.
Opinions are, of course, my own, and I acknowledge that I have a bad taste in music, so I don’t doubt other people will have different opinions to mine!
Font Links
Links to fonts I found interesting.
Adding Radio To An Ambient Music Server
Earlier this year, I wrote about expanding my ambient music server, using AudioBookShelf to play both podcasts and audio content downloaded from YouTube via PinchFlat - mostly relaxing music, guided meditations and ASMR sounds. In this post, I’ll go into a recent addition to this setup: creating themed “radio” stations of what I downloaded from YouTube.
Music Setup - 2025
In 2023, I wrote about how I reorganised my music setup, focusing mostly on the software side of things, with which applications I was using to tag the music, organise within a library, and play. There have been a few changes to that setup since, as well as substantial hardware differences, so in this post, I’ll go through my current music setup.
Expanding An Ambient Music Server
Last year, I wrote about creating an ambient music server, because I had received a one year free trial to a service providing RSS podcast feeds of various ambient sounds, and wanted to archive the podcast “episodes” so I could continue to listen to them after the trial had ended.
The process of doing this involved me first downloading the content of the feeds via podcast-dl, storing them in a dedicated Plex library, and playing via the cross-platform Plexamp app.
However, after some recent developments, I have since changed my setup and expanded a little bit, all of which I will go into today in this short post.