This week, Federico and John are back from their holiday break, included so many hardware and automation projects that this is part one of a two-part episode regarding Federico’s networked music automation setup and John’s new research tool.

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Presenting Our Nerdy Holiday Projects

John’s Research PWA
- Parallel.ai
- Firecrawl
- Example Club MacStories article by John where he used his research tool
  - How iTunes Shaped the Apple of Today
- Tools John used:
Federico’s Networked Music Library
- Roon
- ROCK (Roon server)
- Qobuz
- M4 Mac mini (Refurbished)
- Terramaster F8SSD+ NAS
- FiiO R9
- FiiO M17 DAP
- FiiO FT1 headphones
- John got a FiiO Snowsky Echo Mini DAP

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