I recently removed NextCloud Music on my server and replaced it with Navidrome.
Great piece of software. I like the UI and it performs much better, especially handling big music libraries.
@SuperDicq This might be useful to replace my aging mstream server. Thanks!
@SuperDicq Nope, its not for me. Mstream will stay on for now...
@xyfdi@gameliberty.club I have never heard of mstream? What does mstream do that is lacking in navidrome?
@SuperDicq It respects my folder structure I've been using for 20-25 years. Some of the backups I have are not or not properly tagged, and the folder structure fixes this. I scroll through the library jump into the right folder of the artist, select the album/ep (ordered by year), queue the music and go..
Navidrome doesn't offer a way from the main interface to easily view my music backup folder and uses the tagging in the audio-files themselves. So there are entire artists and albums I am unable to find from Navidrome. If I only got my stuff from Bandcamp, I'd be fine. But my ABCDE standards conform to the structure that predates both.
@SuperDicq Cool thank you.
Recently I've become a fan of Jellyfin. What is your poison when it comes to viewing backups of your DVDs and Bluerays via the browser?
@xyfdi@gameliberty.club Sorry, I don't have a solution for viewing video files in a browser.
I also think Jellyfin is a steaming pile of C# trash, which is especially bad because it requires Microsoft Dotnet SDK to run.
I have a samba server for streaming video using mpv, but that's probably not everyone, I so would recommend Kodi instead.
@SuperDicq I still use my NFS+VLC for all my networked file-system needs.
I used Kodi in the past and that ecosystem got wild with the plugins, the free movie viewers at some point, and the botted and hacked plugins for some minor feature. I always saw it as something you put on a raspberry pi and move on.
@xyfdi@gameliberty.club If your audio files aren't tagged you can change the Persistent ID (PID) settings in Navidrome to "folder" instead of the default "album, albumartist" or something. This setting makes it index by folder and not by tags.
But honestly if this mstream program works for you I'm not going to try and get you to switch for no reason.