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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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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Navidrome even supports multiple libraries now. I was using 2 instances for a bit for my wife and I, but now it's all in one.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't realize they had updated. That's great! I knew it was on the timeline but it works so well even with multiple instances I hadn't been watching for it.

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

Yep! They released it like a week after I just set up a second instance lmao

The only catch I noticed is that the default "/music" library can't be changed, so I set up my directories in the container like:

  • /user1/music
  • /user1/discover
  • /user2/music
  • /user2/discover
  • /shared

All 5 are set up as separate libraries, and I keep "/music/ in the container mounted to an empty directory. The discover folders are populated when Explo runs each week, that's a whole project of its own.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks, I already have it up and running. Works great!