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I see nobody mentioning airsonic, the open source fork of subsonic. I tried navidrome but there you can't browse through folders or start a 'radio mode' (i.e. play related stuff in your library).

Another problem I found with navidrome are duplicate files in your library: since it is not folder but tag based, you'll end up with every track double, and there is no nice quick way to just play an album each track played once.

Is there a reason why people prefer navidrome over airsonic? Since I switched I feel so much more in control what I want to play.

Fantastsic post!

FWIW I suspect Jellyfin is the better choice for libraries with both music and movies. That said, we live in a world where multiple FOSS options exist to serve these roles. That should be appreciated and noticed by waaaay more people.

Question: did you consider Funkwhale , and if so why did you choose this other stack instead?

EDIT: fix link sry

this is incredible! petty much exactly what i did for myself, minus the *arr part (yet)

also i am dabbling with tempo, and it's been forked with active development!

So the first sentence says TV and movie streaming replacement is trivial... Can you elaborate for someone who still uses the pirate bay for movies?

Yup, been porting all my music to navidrome the past few months and it's pretty sweet. I like that there are native subsonic apps for most platforms (using tempo on android at the moment) and that navidrome also comes with its own web player to use on the fly.

Although my setup is much more simple, just using samba to get files to it and mp3tag to prepare the files if needed.
I initially used nextcloud with its music plugin (includes subsonic server) and its basically remote access + player + server in one, but its not as good imo. I'd rather use software that focuses on one thing and does it well.

Is this your personal blog ?

One of the main advantages of Spotify for me is the AI. I could host the music myself just fine. But having an AI come up custom playlists is another thing entirely.