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.

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      9 hours 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
        11·
        8 hours 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 !!!

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      11 hours ago

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