Not to my knowledge, but music.youtube.com is a pretty clean interface, and it’s easy enough to grab links from.
Keep in mind, you can feed yt-dlp both playlist (including album) and channel (artist) links, as well as individual videos.
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As far as where you get the music from, you’ll have to determine for yourself what audio quality you require.
To test this, use something like Soulseek to get a high quality version of a song you are very familiar with, and then get the same song off of YouTube with yt-dlp (better yet—do this for a few songs).
Then, open both songs in separate media player windows, randomize the layout of said windows so you don’t remember which is which, plug in your favorite headphones and see if you can guess which is which.
For me, I found the difference between a lossless or 320kbps download from Soulseek and a 128-196kbps download from YouTube to be negligible (or outright nonexistent) in most cases, so I mostly download off of YouTube, which is very simple to do.
Depending on where you get the files, you may need to add metadata yourself. For this, I recommend MusicBrainz Picard.
To my knowledge, that is controlled by your window manager/DE.
Damn polybar looks much easier to configure than waybar…
- Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
- Suldusk - Lunar Falls
- Wintersun - The Forest Seasons
- Agalloch - The Mantle
- Mors Principium Est- Seven
Niflheim might one day be the name of an actual Nix-based distro…
Catchy manifesto, perhaps, but the Yippies historically (to the extent there even was such a group) were the absolute pinnacle of spectacle for its own sake. They got nothing done, and ultimately served only to hurt the public image of the legitimate countercultural movements in the long term. I think it seriously goes against the more pragmatic and action-oriented outlook of Solarpunk to take cues from these guys.
Yeah that’s a lot of what kept me out of most of home-manager’s functionality.
I will say, though, there are occasionally programs that have a lot of home-manager options yet few (if any) NixOS options (gammastep comes to mind), so I use it for those.
Also, configuring browsers with home-manager is fantastic!
Hey friend,
My recommendation is to keep things dead simple as you start out—no fancy channels or flake inputs and such, at least not where not necessary. I’ve found a lot of success in going slow, and not feeling rushed to do everything the NixOS way at first (for example, I still manage my dotfiles with GNU stow instead of home-manager). I started off with a very simple flake and basically just using my configuration.nix to declare packages, gradually learning more from there. The Nix ecosystem is as extremely powerful as it is poorly documented—it unfortunately sometimes takes a while to (as you’ve noted) even just find information.
I’ve linked below two sites I found unbelievably helpful in my journey—the first one helps you get up and running with a very simple flake (and, yes, you will want to use a flake, even if it isn’t obvious right now why), and the second one is a huge search engine of all NixOS options, the first place I check when I’m putting something new on my system.
Good luck!
Wow! Finally a niri user out in the wild! I’m super curious to hear about your experiences with it—do you find it to be stable enough for day to day use? What’s your workflow like? How’s it compare to what you’ve used before?
The ultimate WYGIWYG editor!