bring a laptop. if you want an external one, they most of the time only need usb and if not, probably a 12V power brick

disc drives usually dont work on android unless they have a soecisl mode which “translates” the disc filesystem so it looks like FAT32 to the phones.

I dont watch too many series/movies. Never payed for streaming, planning on never doing so because of all that bullshit. I prefer my media on stamped and metallized plastic discs that work offline, or plain DRM-free video/audio files on my HDD.

for me, opening my music folder in Picard (available for download at https://picard.musicbrainz.org/) and clicking “analyze” was enough

are you sure you are not mixing up MusicBrainz (the Metadata Database) with MuiscBrainz Picard (the tool to put metadata on files)

try musicbrainz picard for the metadata

kids should not work nor “have to” work. they should have fun, get educated and well… be kids. they have more than 40 years down the road to suffer in a cubicle

i suggest a raspberry pi or similar single-board computer with either LibreELEC (good for local/NAS files or jellyfin) or a build of androidTV installed

I use this: https://f-droid.org/de/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.Music It’s nice.

This is also an interesting concept: https://f-droid.org/de/packages/rocks.mucke/

pictures, please

1. Heat vaseline in a small container or on a spoon
2. Suck up into syringe
3. Inject liberally into veins switches, connectors, and other electronic moving parts that I’d like to be waterproof. (0. Cover PCB in nail polish or specially-made products)

technically you can’t trust me, but the code is right there and should be easy enough to understand so that you can verify im not doing anything shady. otherwise “trust me bro”