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I see that when people ask for music servers, people frequently suggest Navidrome or mpd/mopidy. I haven't tried either. I'm just using Jellyfin as an all-in-one. I'm wondering why do people choose to use a dedicated music server over an all-in-one like Jellyfin?

Is the extra overhead worth it?

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Clients often are better suited for music, specially for mobile. For example with Subsonic clients (Navidrome, Gonic, etc), the client aggressively caches the queued songs, which is super helpful when there are hiccups in the network while traveling. A few clients allow me to configure the cache size, allow me to mark some titles are always cached, allow me to browse the cache (case I don't have network at all). It's just way better suited for music.

And on the desktop clients are way lighter weight.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ultrasonic caches too much, on my phone. It has a limiter, but for some reason ignores it. Once a year I have to go and nuke the whole app because it's using all 120 gigs available 🙃

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

It's a feature not a bug 🤪

[–] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn’t aware that the client cached the playlist. That’s pretty great.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Ultrasonic and DSub(2000) both do. It's so incredibly useful on roadtrips. Works really really well. I have the app live on the as card in my phone and keep the cache at a massive 100Gb, I have all my favorite music stores, in flac, ready to go at all times.