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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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[–] Nico_198X@europe.pub 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (26 children)

SD Card on my phone. i don't stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.

edit don't look for solutions to problems you don't have. most ppl don't NEED to stream everything over the internet.

go back to local.

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

So you only listen to music on one device? If not, do you swap the SD card between devices all the time or do you have a separate SD card for all devices? How do you keep them in sync, transfer playlists, etc? What if you have more than 2TB?

Yeah, go local as in: Run your own media server and stream from that.

But only keeping music files on the end device is a step in the wrong direction.

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I do use a media server but I could probably get away with just syncthing to sync my computer and phone, it would probably be easier even. Of course, if you have more than 2tb and you want it all at your fingertips then a media server is probably the right call.

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