cross-posted from: https://piefed.zeromedia.vip/c/selfhosting/p/451238/1-year-into-navidrome-with-dilligent-tagging-and-rating-and-this-is-how-someone
forgive the tyos, english is absolutely my first language but we strugglin over here, ya feel? or, take it as confirmation this ain't some damn clanker bullshit
It's just like holy shit! this is what I've wanted my music to do my whole life! This is almost just another member of the family.
Feishin and the smart playlists really really shine when adding user ratings into the mix. plus, adding a "mood" tag and then being able to use our own terms, it is incredible.
Build a custom station with the tags you want, then add "not played in the last days" (depending on how much traffic/supply of that particular kind of music gets) and it keeps it fresh. Add in "rating is not 1" and you'll see the stuff that hasn't been rated yet, but it won't even let 1 start tracks into the queue!
I have rediscovered old favorites, found new songs by classic artists, have perfectly curated playlists down to the nth degree, custom stations that show me exactly what i want before i even knew i wanted to listen to that right then, all without commercials, on every device i own.
i am pumped for the future of the open subsonic API's! I think a skipped count could be awesome. I'd like to automate some stuff based off skip counts.
the navidrome plugins are getting some inertia, i am excited to see where that goes.
Other Navidrome/opensubsonic users, how do you guys use the 5 stars? for me it is
- 5 amazing song, not only will i 99% of the time never skip it, i will try to get everyone's attention and have them listen
- 4 i really like this song and have stopped what i am doing to pay attention to it, it is not likely but may get skipped depending on the mood/genre desired at that time
- 3 - this song is good and i notice it and smile while continuing doing my thing, unless it is the wrong mood/genre (can i blast it while working?), which means it gets skipped.
- 2 - this song is unobtrusive and doesn't appear to bother or inspire me.
- 1 this song catches my attention due to disliking it. I will go out of my way to stop it from playing. i set up my stations to never call for those again.
I am looking for other ways to interface with this to be able to rate songs a little easier/safer (while driving?)
I am hopeful i will have the wiggle room to donate to navidrome, feishin, snapcast, mopidy, spindle, soon!!!!
I use a combo of navidrome and feishin too, and i am also very very happy.
I tried out all the web players i could find and found feishin to be the best, mostly for it's ability to multi select stuff in the queue easily and carry out various operations.
I'm really happy with this setup too, i don't use all that funky playlist stuff but it does sound cool and i should have a play. I never got into the spotify way of music so i never really was looking to replace that way. I only really listen to full albums (apart from dance music when i prefer dj created sets/mixes or occasionally playlists by genre). I do make sure i have my genre tag setup right so i can browse by genre as i generally know which genre i want (genres correlate with moods for me) if not exactly which album/band i want to listen to. Only expection to all this is i have a self created genre called Friday Music which is just quite high energy across genre 'yeeaaa work is basically done' music. And if i don't know what to listen to i go for a little silence cos i sure do listen to a lot of music :)
I keep a playlist of albums which are 'to listen to' when it occurs to me i should listen to X again but won't right at that moment, then i build my actual queue from there for the day, but i have noticed feishin has started saving your queue which is really cool, still i don't like my queue too full and there are generally 10 albums or so on my to listen to list, so i'll probably keep this playlist separate.
I have been trying to get into favoriting tracks but i've only managed a few so far and it's not really taken off for me.