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Installing Alchemy Phraseanet DAM on Windows 10 using Docker and WSL2

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Phraseanet Digital Asset Management Phraseanet is an Open Source Digital Asset Management solution dedicated to professionals who need a complete system to manage, publish and share their digital media resources (pictures, videos, audio, PDF, Office documents…). It provides all the necessary tools for capturing, indexing, organization and use of the digital resources. It also has an  API of a PHP SDK development kit , as well as a catalogue of plugins. This solution is published by ALCHEMY , a long-standing player in the DAM market. Read all about it at Alchemy's site  here . I look after the Phraseanet installation at a large organization. It is a cost-effective tool. We rely on Alchemy's support team, but I wanted to get to know the system a little better myself. So I have decided to install Phraseanet on Windows 10. But Phraseanet runs on Linux. Not to worry, as Microsoft has introduced Docker support and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or more recently WSL2 . With this I

Trackstat on Logitech Media Server

Setting up Trackstat on Logitech Media Server Trackstat is a plugin that allows you to rate the songs in your Logitech Media Server. https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/TrackStat_plugin#Installation tells you:  Goto  SqueezeCenter Settings/Plugins  and select to install TrackStat. You might need to add Erland's repository to see it, see here for more information regarding this:  SqueezeCenter_Repositories . If you don't want to install it through Extension Downloader, you can also download it from  the download page  and manually unzip the new version in the SqueezeCenter Plugins directory Go to Plugins tab of Logitech Media Server In additional repositories , add: http://erland.github.io/squeezebox-downloads/repositories/latest.xml and check the checkbox " Use unsupported extensions" Then you can install TrackStat.