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I ended up using navidrome for my music to take advantage of the subsonic API, which has been phenomenal ๐
I've just finished ripping about 1300 CDs. I used Jellyfin for a bit since I already had it set up for my video library, but I wasn't happy with the Android options and it was pretty basic.
Navidrome is a fucking TREAT. Paired with Symfonium, I'm finally enjoying my personal music collection regularly again.
As for tagging, OP, while I get why people like Picard, it doesn't always work with how I like to do things. I put everything into a music folder on my desktop, use Mp3Tag to retrieve metadata, edit what I need, and make sure the artwork is decent and sized where I want it. Then I use the tag > filename to organize and move them to my NAS.
I've found Navidrome to be quite capable of handling large music collections. I was worried in the beginning. It sips resources. When I fire it up and listen remotely, I watch the CPU and RAM. It barely moves the needle. Very happy with it.
Man, I just set up navidrome and it instantly seems so much better and easier to maintain. Thank you so much for your input :)