I was hoping to go all in with Jellyfin, but it’s been absolutely maddening to try to get it to play nice with my curated library. It just makes too many dumb assumptions about artist metadata.

Any other suggestions?

EDIT: I installed Navidrome, then poured over the documentation for the config file and micromanaged every setting. This has allowed me to get damn near close to the exact unobtrusive behavior I had hoped for.

EDIT 2: AFA mobile client goes, I’d absolutely consider paying for Symphonium, if it didn’t seem to require my having a Google Play account (fuck that). So instead I’m trying Tempo.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    24 hours ago

    There really isn’t any decent alternative. I can run 4 Navidrome servers along side each other using less resources than a single copy of the alternatives. It just works and does almost everything you could want.

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Navidrome even supports multiple libraries now. I was using 2 instances for a bit for my wife and I, but now it’s all in one.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I didn’t realize they had updated. That’s great! I knew it was on the timeline but it works so well even with multiple instances I hadn’t been watching for it.

        • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          Yep! They released it like a week after I just set up a second instance lmao

          The only catch I noticed is that the default “/music” library can’t be changed, so I set up my directories in the container like:

          • /user1/music
          • /user1/discover
          • /user2/music
          • /user2/discover
          • /shared

          All 5 are set up as separate libraries, and I keep "/music/ in the container mounted to an empty directory. The discover folders are populated when Explo runs each week, that’s a whole project of its own.