Trying to ditch YouTube Music & Spotify for self-hosted music has been a struggle. I’ve subscribed to YT Premium today.

Here’s how my attempts have gone:

  • Nextcloud Music (with Recognize): The web UI is great, has all the features I need. Downside: no transcoding and playback through Subsonic or Ampache clients is slow, sometimes causing server issues.

  • Jellyfin: Streaming works fine, but it doesn’t recognize individual artists (my files are in one big folder, so albums are jumbled).

  • Navidrome: Similar to Jellyfin, artist recognition is off and playback isn’t as smooth.

I’ll try Plexamp next. What else should I try?

All of my songs are stored in NextCloud.

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18·
      21 days ago

      Exactly this… It’s like throwing your silverware in the draw and then saying I can’t find my special knife

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      21 days ago

      That’s all I can think of honestly…I have a collection of over 40,000 songs…EVERYTHING is in the proper place/folders etc… ain’t no way would I ever consider my music folder to look like the windows download folder.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        21 days ago

        That’s also how my Linux download folder looks from time to time XD But since I’m on Arch bases distro I try to be more organized and clean-up that Download folder mess !!!

    • zingo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      21 days ago

      Even Picard gets some metadata wrong on auto. Don’t trust it blindly.

      Be careful and only do changes manually.

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    21 days ago

    You want beets to organize your music https://beets.io/

    You want to use the musicbrainz database

    And you want to scrobble your plays to listenbrainz.

    You will serve your music however you want. Navidrome is one of the best, you can’t go wrong.

    Navidrome does not take car eof tagging. You have to make sure your music is tagged properly. You can also use other software for it that uses beets under the hood. Someone shall chime in and suggest the best app for that as beets isn’t end user friendly.

  • N4CHEM@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    20 days ago

    I guess this isn’t what you want to hear… but like others here I’d recommend you organise and tag your music properly. Then software like Jellyfin or Navidrome should work properly.

    I use MusicBrainz Picard and have seen people recommend https://beets.io/, which I still haven’t looked into.

      • N4CHEM@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        Good to know. Thanks. I have my music in my server, which runs Jellyfin and Navidrome on Docker…

        Would it make sense to install it on Docker too or would it be OK install it on my computer and then have it check the music oh my server over NFS?

        • weker01@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          I don’t see why an nfs setup wouldn’t work but it could generate a lot of network traffic.

          In the end test for yourself if the performance is acceptable and keep a backup

  • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
    6·
    21 days ago

    Lidarr might help, like other said you need to start by organizing your library first then look at hosting.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    21 days ago

    I’ve subscribed to YT Premium today.

    If you’re on Android there’s InnerTune. It’s basically YouTube music but for free ! Just to bad you can’t directly access downloaded files to export them elsewhere. (Yeah that’s practically piracy and illegal)

    I like navidrome + Tempo as self-hosted solution. Works well without any issues. However, I read about horror stories people losing all their media or fucking up their media library ?

    Also, that’s a huge song library (20.000?)… Not sure this can be easily handled over to a self-hosted solution? But first you need to organize your songs

    • jaxiiruff@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      21 days ago

      I cant seem to use it without signing in which sucks, might consider just submitting to youtube soon anyway since no good competitor is being made. Too big to fail and all that.

  • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.comEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

    I use Synphonium on my phone, it links to my Jellyfin and I can sync/sort and download directly from there. I use just use Spotify free in Firefox with Ublock on PC, that way I get no ads

  • carzian@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    Seems like nextcloud is the weak link, can you access them another way? Through a network share?

  • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    I used a NAS and VLC for a long time. It’s pretty easy and works quite well if the meta data is correct.