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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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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah... Newer genration are into "put everything in 1 big messed up directory and find all you needs by tags" structure.

I get the gist, but calling directory structure evil is kinda extreme. It allows to structure your thoughts and if somehow your metadata is corrupted, you still have a directory structure.

I work on both front for compatibility issues but nothing beats a well thought directory structure!!

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Who called it evil?

I was wondering because all I do is /artist/album/, which is going to be the same logical appearance in navidrome as at would be from a dir structured view so couldn't understand the point.

The difference is the metadata, which I'm much more strict on so I haven't seen these sorts of problems.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I read that somewhere from a github repository maybe even in Navidrome's pull requests or Issues maybe?

I think the argument was that in directory structure you always have to think where you have to put your files and sometimes a file can be at 2 different places at the same time and I do agree to some degree, that's why I use both :) !

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Entirely possible, I know they have commented before on not wanting to do it.

Which I kind of get if you're parsing metadata, you'd have to create a whole new method for parse and view which can be a pain. Though I'd hardly call it evil myself since its how I sort too.

I'd agree on having to think and duplicates are possible, but that's possible in so many scenarios.

shrug

Either way metadata I think is important, but ive been a pain about metadata since the 90s (because burning CDs and having the actual track info was awesome).