I’m still figuring out my new toy. I’ve done little enough that I could redeploy if needed. But it works. All the bits fit together. I can install apps and extend my system.
I guess I expected something like googleapps. The interface is more like onedrive. I got CORE going. Gonna build a mailserver this week and hook that up.
Well, I have file transfer between mobile, desktop,and server. If I wanted to edit my resume on the fly, and have that be THE new version, thats do-able. I started uploading some favorite music, and that was my first actual “use”. I can listen to these things anywhere. Cool! High quality stream, too.
So … what are you doing with your Nextcloud?
I’ve just discovered the “Music” app. It seems kinda simplistic, but its doing the basics better than just playing the files. I’m pretty sure I’ll continue to use it.
This is another point where the Nextcloud way of doing things was unintuitive for me, but it all works fine.
In order to play a bunch of music, you must first either use the smart playlist, or create your own playlist, which is a drag and drop process that took me a while to figure out as well.
That’s all fine and it works, but the way most music players work is that you play a song, and that opens a player window. Then you add more music to it.
Here in Nextcloud, you can play one song. Or you can play a bunch of songs. But the first thing does not smoothly lead to the second. Playing a single song or playing a group of them are two different processes.
It sounds good. All of my music streamed from Nextcloud has sounded really good.
Am I imagining that? And it seems silly. But I keep noticing better audio presence from my nextcloud streams than playing files locally in VLC.