Hey guys, so I have been searching for the different ways to self-host a music-server and don’t really know whats the best/most elegant way to go.

I know that there is navidrome and many also use jellyfin for it. Now I have a few questions:

  • Are there any good apps for android for navidrome/jellyfin respectively?
  • how easy can I add songs to them/do they pull metadata from somewhere (like jellyfin does for movies)
  • how do they (or any other options) compare in terms of ease of setup/maintainability?
  • do you have any overall recommendations?

Thanks a lot for any tips/recommendations and your help :D

  • fleemEnglish
    5•12 hours ago

    i have a computer in the bedroom that has my ‘local copy’ of music

    i download with nicotine on that computer, tag with picard, then sync with rclone to my proxmox server/navidrome lxc that runs on docker.

    i have an old music player device that i flashed Debian on, and installed two snapcast servers/clients simultaneously on that machine, one with mopid-subidy extension (but a fork that allows for server scrobbling) and another tied into home assistant for announcements.

    the player can play directly through mopidy, or DLNA

    or snapcast can swap to any of my linux computer’s with pipewire snapcast discover, and i can listen with feishin (or anything else in the entire world) and sling to snapcast from there.

    away from home, tempus on android