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Hello!

currently i use Jellyfin for my music library but i am not really happy with it. I used to use Plex and it was wonderful but... here we are...

I already tried Navidrome but for me a crucial feature is to be able to import spotify playlists and rebuild them with my local library.

For jellyfin there is a plugin that does that and it works 90% of the time. But even after finding several scripts and docker-composes i could host i was never able to properly import my spotify playlists into navidrom. Reason why that is so crucial is that i use spotify to build playlists, make song-radios and add them back into the playlist and then i download this playlist using various tools.

I then rebuild these playlists inside my music library.

Now i found Music Assistant 2.0 for my HomeAssistant and it's incredibly awesome! Being able to fully use my sonos speakers and group them on the fly is amazing! But using song radios inside it with my jellyfin as the media provider apparently uses jellyfin's "instant mix" and my goodness is that ever hot garbabe... i have my whole library being properly tagged by Picard and every song has the proper metadata and all that but Instant mix is just plain useless. For 50% of my songs it will just put the same song 5 times into the queue and be done with it. Sometimes it's actually able to build a good sounding radio but that's really hit or miss.

So to conclude, what would you guys recommend if i want a music library that:

  1. Has preferably a subsonic API to maximise compatibility with different players
  2. Has the ability to import and reconstruct my spotify playlists
  3. Has a working song radio / instant mix feature that will not collapse as soon as you try to use it

Thank you very much!

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 18 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I know you've mentioned it, but Navidrome is probably the best choice, but it won't be exactly what you want since you need to interact with a proprietary service.

But, that said, I've gone through basically every single music server I've found and ended up landing on none of them.

They're all broken or missing features that another one has, and there's no One True Music Streaming Server, just a bunch of mostly-kinda-sorta-almosts.

At this point, I just use a network mapped directory and/or a synced copy on the sd card of my phone and local players and don't bother with anything more complex anymore.

The local players that can play media seem to have a much better, richer feature set than ANY streaming one does.

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

For my mobile player i use symfonium and it's awesome.

I'd really love to use navidrome but those spotify playlist's are really important to me lol. Spent a few good years of curating into them and i'd would be way too much work to rebuild them by hand. Also expanding on those playlists is super comfortable with spotify, downloading the playlist and just syncing it.

Do you use the "instant mix" "song radio" of navidrome? (does it even have one?) and if yes, how do like it?

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You may be interested in https://github.com/blastbeng/subtify Disclaimer: I've never tried it, just saw it recently on The Forbidden Site

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Okay so this is for subsonic, well subsonic is a paid service so i'm not really in favor of that :D But this would check two of my three points. I tried their demo but didn't find anything for "instant mix / song radio" do you know if it has something like that?

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