Qobuz apps/players can also be controlled with other Qobuz apps. For example, if you have Qobuz running on your computer, you can control it with the Qobuz app on your phone.

That CLI player is probably better if you just want a remotely controlled headless player, and don't need the Qobuz integration.

Just earlier this year it wasn’t possible to install Qobuz on Linux. I guess the Wine team implemented something that fixed the problem.

I’m not referring to AI. I’m talking about actual music that was recorded and released on the platform under the name of multiple artist and song titles to trick users into believing they were listing to a real recording artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_fake_artists_on_Spotify

Yep I've done a little testing with immich, that's what I'm planning on using, just haven't gotten around to fully setting things up yet. My NAS is just running on a Raspberry Pi 5 so I'm not planning on any multi-user stuff at this point.

Thank you for the suggestions! I'll give it another go, see if I can make it work 👍

I was using Symfonium as my client on Android, maybe that was part of the problem.

I used Beets for processing/tagging, which was also troublesome; never could get it to do anything on its own, had to manually initiate every session, and lots of stuff needed handholding to get tagged correctly. Never could get Picard to work at all, neither in Docker nor on my desktop.

Finally managed to have a go at a new collection, and think I ended up with a setup that isn't all that bad 😊

• Lidarr (Plugin Edition).
• Tubifarry plugin (so much better than my last attempt, which was with Soularr).
• Tubifarry uses SLSKD as indexer and client.
• Set up an extra metadata profile in Lidarr with most release formats added, for those rare occasions where I need to find something obscure for a specific artist.
• When needed, I manually tag and import files. I haven't had good experiences with Beets or Picard (neither desktop nor Docker version), so for re-tagging I just use Kid3 on my Mac, accessing the music files in situ on the server. Most things go pretty smoothly, though, and I just use Lidarr for renaming files (and moving, if necessary).
• I've made sure that Lidarr has access to a Bin folder, though, for those occasional times when it decides to just randomly delete something 🙄
• For Navidrome, I've figured out that the best way to fix missing album art is to just add it directly to the music files through Kid3.
• For persistent missing files in Navidrome, I've realised there's a 'Missing files' function when you click the profile icon (top right), and this solves a lot of the gripes I had with Navi previously.
• For playback, mainly on Android, I'm using Symphonium, which seems happy as long as Navi's happy.

All in all, I think I've got everything a bit under control this time around 😊

Now I just need to remember to get the backup situation under control ... 🫣

Again, thanks for your help! ❤️

For the most part it will play albums fine until it doesn't and won't load the next track getting stuck in a perpetual loading loop and requires being restarted. That is my experience anyway and whilst it doesn't happen all the time it is often enough to just be a little annoying.

For the most part though playback is decent and so if that is your primary use I can see that it would seem like an OK app.

If however you do a lot of your discovery and new music listening on there as I do your opinion would probably be quite different. The search function is dog shit and navigation is horrendous, there are so many illogical decisions. Also the fact that if you click a bandcamp link within the app itself it opens it in a browser rather than opening it in app is absolutely infuriating and has been that way forever.

Unfortunately qobuz still has a some what lack lustre library for my specific niche genre choice but it is getting better and I keep checking it so hopefully soon it will have caught up, although their search is a bit shit as well clumping artists that have the same name but are certainly not the same artist together as one.

Happy to be of service 🫶