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.

  • Nico198X@europe.pubEnglish
    114·
    13 hours ago

    SD Card on my phone. i don’t stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.

    edit don’t look for solutions to problems you don’t have. most ppl don’t NEED to stream everything over the internet.

    go back to local.

      • slamphear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I’m currently waiting for my Fairphone 6 to arrive, but I believe the sim tray includes a spot for an SD card. I was also recently using a Furi Labs FLX1, which also had an SD card slot. There are other options out there. 😊

    • remon@ani.socialEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      So you only listen to music on one device? If not, do you swap the SD card between devices all the time or do you have a separate SD card for all devices? How do you keep them in sync, transfer playlists, etc? What if you have more than 2TB?

      Yeah, go local as in: Run your own media server and stream from that.

      But only keeping music files on the end device is a step in the wrong direction.

      • Nico198X@europe.pubEnglish
        21·
        9 hours ago

        i listen on two devices: my phone and my PC.

        depends on ppl’s use cases. a home media server is over-engineered solution for me, and perhaps others. but it’s good to stop for second and consider what one’s needs actually are.

        • remon@ani.socialEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          Right, but considering that OP is already running a media server and also is looking for a way to curated his library, I don’t see how switching to on-device storage would be anything but a downgrade.

          • Nico198X@europe.pubEnglish
            21·
            8 hours ago

            up to OP. i read it as “i wanted to go all in on Jellyfin, but it’s been a PITA. what else would you suggest?”

    • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      I use a DAP with an SD card on the go, because my whole collection is lossless and I like fidelity. However, it’s convenient to be able to stream music to my TV while doing house chores, in addition to allowing family access.

      • Nico198X@europe.pubEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        the family bit is key i think for needing a home server. some TVs you can do via BT to the phone.

        but if you’re setting it up anyway for your family, then yeah, best to organize around the server.

        good luck to you!

      • Nico198X@europe.pubEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        sure, then in your case, if you absolutely must have access to it all at one time, then home streaming makes sense.

        for me, and i do imagine most ppl (tho i could be wrong!), it doesn’t make sense compared to just returning to local.

        genius that i am, i only realized that AFTER i setup a jellyfin server on my home server for streaming my music. XD derp.

        • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          I use navidrome. And what’s nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.

          In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.

          • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            how does this work for you? i was on gonic but moved back to navidrome to allow for mopidy to let home assistant trigger playlists directly (with the mpd integration)

            but i haven’t figured out the smart playlists yet

            • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              I have a few smart playlists set up that are each various genres of music. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough.