For eyerone else interested in the solution to this issue: while the mentioned issue above is now closed, a corresponding PR on Github is still open, so the issue still persists: github.com/navidrome/navidrome/pull/2187
I really wish some of those open source media libraries will tackle the real reason spotify has an almost monopoly in music apps, algorithmic discovery of new artists/songs. Thats the only reason everyone I know are still paying for premium.
Can scrobbling services fulfill this role for you? Last.fm works well on the free tier, Listenbrainz is free software and does a good job at recommendations too.
Yes, that’s why there’s a Last.fm API key, but that and scrobbling work out of the box with the default key. So, is there any reason to replace it with a personal one?
Over the last few days I’ve tested substreamer, DSub, Symfonium, Ultrasonic and Tempo. I thought that Symfonium was the clear winner (once I’d found the setting to use a local cache) with DSub being next. I wanted to be able to browse albums by genre - others might not care and rate them differently.
Symfonium is closed source and not free, which might be a deal-breaker for some, but it’s a small one-off payment to an indie dev which is A-OK with me. Turns out it’s the same dev that wrote Yatse (xbmc/kodi remote) which I’d also paid for.
edit: Ah, the other comments hadn’t federated - I see I’m in good company!
I know and Subsonic too. I used to love last.fm back before they were bought out, I could pick 3 bands and create a station, I have not been able to create anything as good since, paid or not.
I use beets in my setup and I am pleased with the results, keeps my library nice and clean. It is very capable by default and you can extend it even further with plugins. It will do fine importing well sorted albums and if you have a mess there’s also tag by filename and acoustic fingerprinting. You can use multiple metadata providers and adjust their weights for preference. It’s well documented and multiplatform (it can also be deployed as a container on a NAS system and manage of your imports). The biggest drawback is that you have to read a few pages of the docs before running it or do some dry runs.
Most people use Lidarr so I just use it as well. Out of the box it needed some tweaking but other than that, it works quite well. Pulls tags from MusicBrainz and that’s enough for me. I have been thinking of trying out beets (or a web wrapper of beets), but haven’t gotten the time to do that.
(Not OP but) it can be used to actually download the music itself via torrents, but can also just ingest your existing library and automatically (re-)tag everything as it’s added.
You can use a torrent indexer with it, sure. I use soulseek, which doesn’t integrate so I just let it ingest from a folder. But if you connect it with an indexer, then you can sort of automate downloading music. Request album, and it will request download, organize and tag it for you.
Tempo does not rely on magic algorithms to decide what you should listen to. Instead, the interface is built around your listening history, randomness, and optionally integrates with services like Last.fm to personalize your music experience.
Can you speak to this? Does it work? Does it work well?
You basically have two ways of accessing your library, one is conventional, browse by artist, album, and so on. the other - and that’s the home screen and thus more prominently placed - has categories like “Discover”, “Made for you”, “Top songs from last week”, “New releases”, “Flashback by decade” and more. As to the Last.fm integration, I do not know of any app specific integration, maybe it’s a planned feature? My Navidrome server however has Last.fm and Spotify integration enabled to retrieve artist/album artwork and information. It’s returned and displayed by Tempo, but I don’t think it knows about the origins of that data. Tempo manages to put a lot of options to access your music onto the homescreen without making it look overwhelming. I just love it.
Finamp is very nice. I use symfonium because it is the best app for the task. It auto caches whatever you want, e.g. all 4/5 star songs. The UI is very nice and customizable. The auto playlists are very nice
I’m using Symfonium. Originally got it because it allows pulling from subsonic, plex and jellyfin libraries simultaneously.
After switching all my stuff over to navidrome, rather than having it split between plex and navidrome, I kept it because I paid a couple bucks for it and really like the customizability
On my PC I use sonixd. No particular reason for that one except it was probably the first one I found, is cross platform and also looks quite good
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