For me its Musicbrainz (listenbrainz.org) on android use spotube it has musicbrainz plugin so it will scrobble to your account on listenbrainz. listenbrainz has recommendation playlists like weekly discover, weekly jams which i think are much better than Spotify in my experience. on pc I use linux so i have made a custom tui which scrobbles to listenbrainz using their api and streams music from youtube using yt-dlp (its vibe coded). https://codeberg.org/mobsenpai/lb-tui

There are other apps as well but for my needs i had to make my own. Now you should definitely try it for yourself see how it works for you, listenbrainz also has a youtube integration so it will play songs in mini player, also with musicbrainz you can easily add any songs missing from the platform but in my experience I was able to find 90% of songs and artists i listen to.

I dont like ripping or keeping offline copy because i have roughly 4000 songs in my playlist and its not easy keeping it arranged and move it to other devices. and i need music discovery too hence this combination works for me, although not perfect.

Yeah it’s a little manual to setup and is not very declarative and dynamic which is why I was keen on just letting my qt apps auto theme with gtk. For now I am just using qtstyleplugins which has the older qt5gtk2 and it works with both the qt6 and qt5 apps but it themes with gtk2 which is largely being deprecated and not supported by newer themes so was just concerned.

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Gotta respect my G for that

Thank you 😊. This is so true, this is definitely the charm of nixos, like having to do this once and then not having to worry about it again gives me a peace of mind. Still this should be natively in the kernel itself, and when I said I will try to get this upstream i had no idea it would be this tiresome. It seems a patch is already put up by someone (source - cough… cough… ai), but I still have to find the specific patch on their mailing lists.

So turns out making this patch upstream so it gets into the Linux kernel is not as easy as to open to pull request. There’s this setting up of git email and what not, but with my searches it seems this patch is already made by someone and should be implemented in the kernel 6.19, but take this with a grain of salt. I will update this post if I find the patch file but for now I am assuming this fixed in 6.19. And yes I was hesitant to to try this but the desperation got over me, as I just can’t have anything “not work” it irks me the wrong way, so I just went ahead with it.

Still if not for you, all efforts would have been futile. Thank you for your valuable inputs.

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Thank you everyone for your valuable time. Cheers!

Went ahead and explained it even, also posted on the original arch forum.

Brother guess what? It actually fixed it. OMG I am soo happy, at last it got fixed, i was trying it for the last week and didn’t work, but you swoop and in an instant fixed it. I just can’t thank you enough really. I am really greatful to you.

I’ll do that. Thank you so much 🤗

So fast. Wow I couldn’t even find that resource in all my searching. So Nows the tough part, I hoped I was an expert nixos user. I will try to implement this somehow (cough vibe code), but any more hints would be appreciated. One thing I know the direction to go is patching kernel, which I have seen a repo do, so I will try to copy that.

I did try the latest kernel and also the 6.1 lts kernel with no luck.

I don’t know about the firmware. Can you tell me how to check that? Thank you.

First of all thank you. So yes I have a dual boot system, with windows and nixos.

I tried turning the bluetooth off in windows and booting into nixos, but it didn’t work. And I am sure it’s not a hardware issue because bluetooth works in windows.

I tried cold booting as well with same results.

There are no proper logs as well that suggest anything, in lsmod, lsusb, hciconfig, dmesg (hci capabilities -22 was only one, which I think is just cosmetic).

The scan on in bluetoothctl only shows the laptop’s mac address which means bluetooth does work but somehow it’s not finding the devices to connect to.

This is my exact model: FX608JH ASUS TUF Gaming F16 (2025)

Yes I’ve tried cold booting too, pressed the power button for 60sec even in hope to fix it but same results, disconnecting the ac first ofc.

So I tried that and bluetooth also didn’t work there. I even went ahead and tried multiple distros to see if it was specific to nixos with same results.

Oh yeah, I will try that today and let you know.

Ahh I see