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What do you use for music library streaming? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Use some service like lidarr or beets to tag the music before it goes into jellyfin

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I meticulously use Picard to curate my collection. I'm 99% certain it's not me or my library, it's the assumptions Jellyfin makes about specific artist related tags, and the inability to override said assumptions.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As a musicbrainz editor, don't depend entirely on Picard and musicbrainz for correct tagging either cause shit isn't as well curated as you think.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm in the habit of manually cross-referencing Discogs for every album I run through Picard, often making alterations if need be. I've also spent a lot of time configuring and scripting the shit out of the tool to get a pretty immaculate collection.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago

If you're putting in that much work, please submit those edits to musicbrainz! We need all the help we can get 😭

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

Jellyfin is terrible about this, with any files.

It keeps tagging some TV shows as anime. Wish I could tell it I don't own any anime, dammit.

I've had to start locking stuff in Jellyfin so it will stop with this nonsense.

[–] nfms@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I'm currently using beets to tag my music and airsonic for streaming