Selfhosted

I'm in the middle of writing up a novel about my music stack since I've just about gotten it exactly where I want it. There's no one-size-fits-all answer here and it's difficult to really replicate the behavior of major streaming services.

The short version of what I have set up:

• Backend: Navidrome

• Frontends: Feishin (both desktop and hosted) and Symfonium

• Remote access: Pangolin (this does involve keeping a Navidrome rest endpoint totally exposed so Tailscale/Netbird/Wireguard are fine too, but I wanted to be sure my wife can access it from her work PC in the office)

• Library and metadata management: Lidarr, beets, and metadata-remote. Lidarr does the bulk (one instance per user/library), beets handles manual imports, and MDRM is for fine-tuning and really obscure stuff

• Searching/Downloading: Lidarr + Tubifarry + slskd. Also support smaller artists as much as possible, bandcamp purchases and merch and whatever go a long way.

• Discovery: Explo

I'll have a full beginning to end writeup pretty soon hopefully. It's still not perfect, and juggling multiple users adds a huge layer of complexity, but I'm happy with where it's at.

Lots of interesting discussion, but I’ll add I’ve been plying with https://www.music-assistant.io/

Integrates all sorts of backends, including everything mentioned here, with streaming to just about any device. Reminds me of MPD back in the day, or at least the promise of it.

I just use my local music player musicolet. Never going to switch unless another player alñow resuming last songs of any playlist

It is possible to buy Symphonium by the developer instead of Google Play

One last comment on your edit: Tempo is great, and I used that as well, plus it's open source. The symfonium dev is actually pretty cool about helping you work around Google if you want to buy it another way, but it has to be activated manually by the dev on each device. I just didn't want the hassle.

I'd probably go with Tempo if I were still using navidrome since it's open source.

@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org just so you know there is a fork newly updated of Tempo at https://github.com/eddyizm/tempo

@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org if it helps, the Symfonium dev is open to de-googled licensing via Ko-Fi donations. See the forum post here: https://support.symfonium.app/t/how-can-i-pay-for-symfonium-without-google-play

Per Tolriq's responses there, you can get the APK safely from the Aurora Store.

Navidrome

Plexamp

I still use Samba to do everything related to filesharing (including music streaming). I haven't needed to touch my media server in years. It just continues to work. 🤷‍♂️

Since it's just normal network filesharing, pretty much any music player that has samba support works. On a PC, I like Winamp. On my phone, VLC.

Jellyfin, and yes it thinks its very cleaver with mumbling metadata.

Navidrome with Symfonium for Android and the Web interface or my new favorite Feishin for Desktop Linux

SD Card on my phone. i don't stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.

edit don't look for solutions to problems you don't have. most ppl don't NEED to stream everything over the internet.

go back to local.

beets for library organization, gonic for serving, Tempo for consuming

Use some service like lidarr or beets to tag the music before it goes into jellyfin

1TB SD card on my phone.

Gonic for server, Ultrasonic for client (android)

I would use Navidrome if it supported browsing by folder structure, but they refuse to implement it. My metadata is so scrambled it might as well not exist and it would take months to fix it. I pretend it doesn't exist, because I don't use it.

I use Jellyfin but I download all my songs from Tidal, Qobuz or Deezer and tag them automatically right then and there in a clean format so Jellyfin does not have to guess at all.

I also have some automatic checks in place to convert incorrect metadata to a proper format. Like moving artists from the title (feat. Somebody else) to the artists tag Somebody; Somebody else and a bunch more.

Together with Finamp on desktop and mobile everything is pretty much working as expected.