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Thinking of adding Navidrome and Jellyfin to my set up (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I am just a hobbyist and don't do any tech for work, but I enjoy tinkering. I have a Nextcloud that I like to use to keep files between my phone and a few computers in sync. That does include my media. For my phone I have been liking an app Power Ampache 2 as it lets me stream and save music locally (I don't have unlimited data so somethings I do want to keep).

Part of the motivation is just because and just to host more things makes me feel more pro. I am a bit curious about what otherset ups people in the community might have settled for and why?

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

@InternetCitizen2 Longtime Jellyfin user, brief and erstwhile Navidrome user.If you are complete on top of your collection's tags, and enjoy managing your tags, and have some solution besides Navidrome to do that management with, you might enjoy Navidrome. Navidrome is intensely dependent on your tags being correct, and it offers no way to edit tags itself, that's entirely your problem. I come from the age of Winamp, which allowed you to edit tags with quite a bit of flexibility, it took me a while to even realize that someone had the audacity to release a music server that didn't manage what it relied on.Oh, and forget about using a folder-based view on Navidrome, it is not a planned feature. The main dev is fixated on tags, but not enough to implement editing them. It's an absurd hill to murder your app on.Where I landed: Jellyfin serves your music collection just fine, and offers a folder view even, and I paid 8 bucks CDN for an Android app called Symfonium, which offers every feature you could want, using your Jellyfin server as the media store. It also connects to Navidrome and many other sources, but Navidrome became completely unnecessary once I got Symfonium.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I hear where you're coming from and will agree that sometimes it's annoying to have to earmark something to fix later, but I see it as Navidrome is a media server - not a library manager. So it does what it does well.

    Having used so many apps over so many years, I'm to the point where I want my tags in order and I review every single album before I add it to my library. Folder structure is equally as important. But ultimately, I'm more diligent about metadata because it's more flexible and I know it can be reused if I ever misplace a directory or want to reorganize all the files in my collection.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I'm using Navidrome with Lidarr and soulseek and it does everything i want perfectly. I listen to specific albums or artists, not genres or playlists though, so that might explain why I don't have a problem.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Hmmm it does not sound like a huge issue where my current library is at. Still feels like it will make adding items a bit more round about.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I use MusicBrainz Picard to re-tag my music and make it consistent. It's an additional step but just importing the entire music folder auto imports the albums and you can apply the tags in one click after that

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