tapedeck v2

This is a new version of tapedeck (git repo).

🚧 This is a work in progress 🚧

You can see a UI mockup and try the live server.

What

As a kid I spent a lot of time recording music with my tape deck from the huge variety of local community radio stations. While this type of radio is alive and well thanks to streaming, their archives come in differnet shapes and sizes and are limited in time due to FCC rules. This project provides a way to capture those archives for personal use and to record live streams when archives are not an option.

Why v2

I had fun making tapedeck v1 but I never finished it. It could only capture audio without a builtin playback mechanism. Trying to revive the old codebase and infrastructure will take too much time due to a large number of dependencies and over engineering. That was a known downside at the time as I wanted to experiment with a lot of AWS infra. The fact that it's still running (albeit sans TLS) is pretty cool. The goals for v2 are driven by these failings in v1.

Goals

1. Simple architecture and design so it's easy to hack on.
2. Self-contained with limited dependencies. If the app works now, it should be able to continue working for years. Provide a package with a server binary and files for the web UI. If a database is needed, then use SQLite.
3. Need easy TLS support, as it's usually the hardest part when setting up new software.

TODO

• TLS support, via nginx.
• Auth support, via nginx and oauth2-proxy.
• Production deployment, digital ocean droplet with rsync deploy and systemd.
• Capture existing mp3 and m3u files (port existing functionality).
• Capture live streams.
• Plugin to capture existing archived shows from my favorite radio stations.
• Recordings must be shareable ala "anyone with this link can access".
• Playback GUI with offline support and background play on IOS (Eg doesn't shut off when you lock your phone).
• Data storage TBD. It would work best for me to use Google drive but that goes against Goal #2.

Dev Environment

• go version go1.23.4 linux/amd64
• Install package go get zombiezen.com/go/sqlite

• If working under WSL, host your project under the native WSL filesystem and not under /mnt source

Under WSL2, anything under /mnt/*/ is like a remote filesystem, that goes over the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol (9P).

There sqlite can't lock it's database files. Everywhere else, outside the shared filesystem, sqlite will work.