Hi guys I’m looking for hosting own audio server. So far I have run Roon and Plex. Server I want to host is on remote machine and want to stream to iOS, Android TV and Desktop. Would be great if it also would let me organize my library (that part might also be separate app)

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    1 year ago

    Free I recommend jellyfin and use finamp, but I don’t know it will have all the features you need (yet).

    If you’re willing to shell out some money then Plex does all of what you need, and it’s hard for me to think of anything that comes with PlexAmp, which requires PlexPass (subscription or one time lifetime purchase). The organization of the music is really nice too, however I run everything through Picard musicbrainz first anyway

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    I use Navidrome with play:Sub (paid) or Amperfy (free as in beer) on iOS. I also use the Volusonic plugin with Volumio to play music throughout the house. All my music is curated using MusicBrainz Picard and the files are mounted read-only for Navidrome.

    I looked at Roon briefly, and I know many people like it, but I can’t justify the cost. Plex and I don’t get along; pretty sure it’s operator error and/or grumpiness. Jellyfin looks promising, but I ran into challenges with it as well. I think if you’re just hosting music, then Navidrome is fine. If you think you might expand to series or films, something like Plex or Jellyfin could be better long term.

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      I’d recommend navidrome over jellyfin, even if you have an existing jellyfin instance. It’s just that much better. Lidarr does a pretty good job organizing files, even if that’s not how you’re acquiring your music, but Picard is great. I use a Picard docker right on my server that streams the ui in a browser.

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    I paid for and don’t regret Plex pass so I could access PlexAmp. It’s quite nice. Will it be worth the price for others? I’m not sure.

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    I would recommend something compatible with the subsonic API, because some clients are great, and there’s always one decent for every major platform. That leaves us with:

    depending on how much configurability you need and how many resources you are willing to throw at it. Navidrome is still quite crashy, though, while airsonic ticks like a clock.

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      Had for years airsonic, later airsonic advanced. The overhead is huge compared to Navidrome.
      Had never an issue with Navidrome and it is much snappier. No even starting to talk about the modern interface compared to Airsonic.

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        Airsonic is a Java-server app, so it takes a lot of memory because it’s optimizing for high-thoughput and high-load. You can customize the JVM settings to make it much leaner! (but not as much as navidrome, sure).

        Regarding the UI, I generally don’t play my music in a web-browser, but I get the sentiment :)

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        I’m pretty confident it does it better. Navidrome is a very young reimplementation of sub/airsonic after all…

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    I’ve tried a few deficient servers but always came back to Plex. Plexamp just organise things really well and is slick on all platforms.

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    Roon is expensive, but if you are a serious music fan, it’s 100% worth it.

    I describe it to others as like talking to a super knowledgeable music store employee. It knows so much about each track, each musician, each band… cross-referencing them all, so you can go down a rabbit hole of hyperlinks learning about the music. It seamlessly mixes playlists across streaming and locally stored music. It does a decent job of streaming around the house to Apple, android, and audiophile devices. They just added an app that enables remote listening to your locally stored music.

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    I tried jellyfin but it was too slow to index my library. So I switched to navidrome. It works and it indexes music very fast. Searching for songs is for some reason slow. It only works with tags so browsing by folders is not possible. My workaround is a script that auto creates playlists in folders with songs from different artists/albums. Ios app play:sub is nice.

    I am happy with it so far.

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    I can recommend Navidrome. Organizing of library with Lidarr and (Beets)[https://beets.io]
    I’m using Beets for tagging because of the Discogs plugin.
    Lidarr for visual overview of the library.

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      Im looking at beets now but like most solutions, they pucked a subset of id3v2 fields and left out a lot of others.

      Do you know is it possible to use beets with missing fields? For example I use publisher and producer and beets doesn’t have these fields.

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          Custom field support- TXXX is also nice but I was refering to the id3v2 standard fields. It looks like beets doesn’t support most fields actually.

          How about composer or conductor for classical tracks or remix for EDM, language, grouping, media type, mood etc.

          These tags have been part of the id3 standard for over 2 decades, I wonder why beets choose not to support then.

          I read that doc but sadly most fields are missing. I cant see beets being useful for any serious collection without basic field support.

          Its too bad, beets looks promising but Linux lacks an open source solution with decent id3 tag support. There are several windows apps (all closed source) that have been around for a long time with very good comprehensive id3 tag support but none foe Linux.

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      Beets My issue is that some of my media files are messed up tried to use Beets though not sure if I did something wrong but I messed up a bit.

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        Lidarr can be used for tagging too and it does have a web interface.
        Cleaning a messed up library with Beets is tough and depends on how the individual files are sorted. Start importing/organizing a small part or some albums to find out how it works. And a backup of data is always recommend!

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        you need to be organised with beet. Import your music one album after an other. use “-t” to be sure that beet is guessing albums correctly. It is lot of work, but once it done it is smooth sailing.

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    And another vote for Navidrome. I use it vith DSub frontend (the only one I’ve found that supports DLNA, for playing back on any DLNA renderer device) and Tailscale for remote access.

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      I see navidrome has smart playlist support. Do any of the various subsonic clients that work with of support smart playlists?

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    Call me crazy, but I’m using jellyfin + beet for backend. Native Jellyfin client on PC and Sympfonium on mobile. Works for me. But my library is small less than 50k tracks.