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Something like multi-library support for self-hosted music? Trying to recreate iPod feel (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been self-hosting my music in Navidrome for the last 3 or 4 years and in general I've been very satisfied. Before that I was using an old iPod. The key difference I haven't been able to recreate in Navidrome is a feeling of my own curated library where I scroll through and recognize all the artists. When I set up navidrome I ended up integrating a bunch of mp3 libraries (my father's, my own, and a few of my friends). Because many people share the Navidrome server with me, I let them add stuff that they listen to. When I browse the artist in the iOS client play:Sub I end up not recognizing about half the artists. I've found that I forget about a bunch of music because I rely so heavily on the 'search' function and don't scroll through my artist library like I did on the iPod back in the day.

I'm not sure how to address this, and I think it pretty significantly affects my relationship to my music library. I'm not sure if the solution is server-side or client-side, but essentially I want to be able to have all the music accessible in some way, and most the time I want to just browse a selection of artists that I choose. I feel like creating a playlist is not sufficient because I don't know how I would browse by artist within a playlist (at least within the clients I'm familiar with). Has anyone felt this way? Any recs?

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I run Jellyfin, but I’ve got a similar situation with our music library. Mine, my mom’s, my sister’s, my wife’s and her mother’s music has (mostly) all been uploaded to our Jellyfin. Before I got married I used to say my music library had everything from A to Z. With as diverse as our tastes are that may now be close to being true in fact.

Jellyfin has the ability to favorite artists, albums and individual tracks, as well as the usual playlist functionality and that has helped a lot. My wife makes big use of the collections function as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I currently use Jellyfin and Navidrome. JF just seems really awkward for music. It's like it tries to treat music and video like the same kind of entities, and they just aren't.

I really really want a better FOSS -compatible music app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For android there is Finamp, a music-focused jellyfin client app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Symphonium: The best money I ever spent on an app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I use it! It is miles better than other Jellyfin apps for music, but there are still things I wish it still had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Never felt that way to me, but each cat their own rat.

As frequently as I hear about Navidrome though, I may have to check it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I maintain a Jellyfin instance for audio that points at the same music library as my Navidrome instance does just so I can use the Jellyfin client for Android TV. I would absolutely LOVE to have a subsonic-compatible Android-TV-focused app, so I could finally single-source my music. It's just not friendly to guests to have them have to log in somewhere using their own device to my music server and then have to cast to my main entertainment system at home, when Android TV is just sitting there, acting as nothing more than an old-school Chromecast.

So, don't get me wrong, Jellyfin is THE BEST video server software FOSS or not, IMO :)