Hey guys, so I have been searching for the different ways to self-host a music-server and don’t really know whats the best/most elegant way to go.

I know that there is navidrome and many also use jellyfin for it. Now I have a few questions:

  • Are there any good apps for android for navidrome/jellyfin respectively?
  • how easy can I add songs to them/do they pull metadata from somewhere (like jellyfin does for movies)
  • how do they (or any other options) compare in terms of ease of setup/maintainability?
  • do you have any overall recommendations?

Thanks a lot for any tips/recommendations and your help :D

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Tempus is phenomenal. I switched to navidrome on my server to use it. Chora is also good, and I use it on my TV (works well on any screen). If you don’t mind closed-source, Symphonum is excellent.

    If you are using Jellyfin, it works well on PC, with Fintunes on mobile.

    You can find a number of good apps for navidrome here. I quite like Strawberry, which is cross-platform. I use it locally for library management.

    I connect everything with Tailscale, which is dead simple.

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for the Chora recommendation, I recently pushed the Tempus apk to my tv as the dev has been working on better landscape screen support, but navigating it on tv still requires a mouse unfortunately.

      I’ll definitely give Chora a try when I get home

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I have been using Jellyfin, and finamp. Its OK but clunky. I generally use SLSKD as most my music is randoms. I have been using slsk-batchdl to bring my old playlists over. Its 85% hit so i am ok with that. I am not quite complete.

    If i were to setup Navidrome would i be better off making sure all my files are on my drive and then setting up? and letting it organize?

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    do you have any overall recommendations?

    Go to a Hifi shop and buy a separate amp and speakers. It’ll do more for your enjoyment of the music than anything else.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    Plex Brand of media server package
    SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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