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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I always thought this and all the other sites like it were just SEO bait. The quality of the alternatives is no better than random, though I guess you can discover software you didn’t know existed. One example: I’m always looking for an alternative to Roon. Like Plex for music, plus you can add in tidal or qobuz, so you can essentially listen to anything on your own library, or the streaming services, from anywhere. It also has an incredible metadata system, letting you view for example, all the players on a jazz album, view bios of every one, and easily start to check out some new music that way. It’s unbelievably flawed and poorly run though.

    What is alternativeto.net’s suggestion as a replacement? Fucking VLC Media player. The only real contender is PlexAmp, or if you want something similar but only for classical music (and without self hosting your own library), there’s idagio. results like that make me think it’s totally useless




  • Thanks! They’ve all evolved quite a bit. I’ve been on Logseq since I wrote this though I’m starting to feel its faults. The main being the syncing is somewhat laborious, and waiting to confirm that your device is synced can be super prohibitive to its use. It’s a large friction point that makes popping it open to jot a note, to do, or other such thing a lot harder than it should be! Capacities is working to become offline-first. I liked it quite a bit when I first discovered it but it was online only and no mobile app. Now it’s becoming a strong contender for my next move. Obsidian is also a lot more polished than when I last checked it out, and if you have a computer you can use to selfhost a couchdb instance, you can get lightning fast syncing for free. in the PKMS community we’re spoiled for choice, but everything is missing one feature or other that we truly need 😂