Comment by hebocon

24 days ago

Navidrome has worked well for me for the last couple years. My collection (~80 GB) is pre-organized FLAC but Navidrome will transcode to MP3 if needed. I use Substreamer on Android to connect to it (Airsonic API/protocol) or the WebUI at home or work.

Just the right balance of simplicity and features for me.

if not for the work requirement, at 80gb you could likely do what I do: use syncthing to make there be a full copy of the files on your phone. I've got a media terminal, my laptop, and my phone each keeping each other up to date. it's never broken or been frustrating. it works offline perfectly.

  • Hmmm... I could. Substreamer let's me mark albums and playlists as "offline access" so I have something local. That works well enough.

    Syncthing for photos is awesome. When I cut-paste on my desktop they are removed from my phone too.

How do you tell navidrome to serve "preorganized" flac. That is exactly my case.

  • AFAICT navidrome doesn't organize anything itself. In your config file, you just say:

        MusicFolder = "/home/vlad/music"
    

    And you're off to the races. The docs even say that this can be a read-only folder, which it is in my case.

    • On the main docs page it says:

      > Navidrome does not support browsing by folders, but simulates it based on the tags with a structure like: /AlbumArtist/Album/01-Song.ext

      I don't think I have seen this tag simulation when I tried it around 2 years ago. But in any case, is this good enough? And does it recognize artists and songs from MusicBrainz like Jelly does flowlessly?

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