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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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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Like others, I run both. Jellyfin for music was alright, but I didn't love how it handled some metadata and my collection now is around 28,000 songs (without bootlegs) and I wanted something dedicated to music.

Absolutely love Navidrome. When I'm at my PC, I'll open it, hit the "Random" option under Albums and select something from the first page. This way I'm always surfacing things I would normally ignore and engaging more with my collection.

Then, again as others have mentioned, I have Symfonium on Android. There's a "Track Mix" option that shuffles your entire library, or you can create dynamic playlists. The one I use gives me 50 random tracks, but filters out classical and tracks shorter than 45 seconds. Same idea though, listening to parts of my collection that would never be my first choice.

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    When I’m at my PC, I’ll open it, hit the “Random” option under Albums and select something from the first page. This way I’m always surfacing things I would normally ignore and engaging more with my collection.

    Random is the only way I listen. BAM! First thing in the morning so music is with me all day. I do have structured playlists, my favorite being my Blues, Jazz, Soul, R&B, Funk playlist. When I purchase music, I usually buy the artist's entire, official release catalog. Their top ten songs are cool and all, but I find more enjoyment listening to the B sides, and stuff that never made radio play, peppered with their top hits here and there. Those deep cuts to me are gold. I've been collecting for many, many decades now from Opera to Death Metal and anything in between. I even ran a fairly successful, licensed, internet radio station back in the late 90's. To say I was a fan of music would be an understatement. It is my most expensive hobby.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    @BruisedMoose @InternetCitizen2 The only reason I'm being fairly passive (this is passive for me) in my criticism and not trumpeting a horn from the mountaintops of the miracle Symfonium is -they are only on one shitty OS that I currently carry around with me but at some point will stop in favour of at least a de-Googled phone, but more like some kinda janky SBC rig I build myself. I expect to lose it at some point.-they are not Free Software.But the actual usage experience of Symfonium is incredible, and does not seem to give a shit if you don't give a shit about metadata, it just handles that geeky bullshit for you. The instant mixes are so good that I'm considering signing up for a streaming service again, just so I can get new music from people I have not already collected. The fact it integrates so damn many sources too.Within its tiny corner of the world (the app store of a corporate reaver) it's quite a thrill. Nobody's Perfect.IMO though, anything that purports to do anything for you as regards your music collection, should meet the minimum standard of working as well as Winamp. Cause Winamp was good enough for the whole world for at decade or more.

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