I have all my mp3s on my NAS. Over the years, I’ve been rating the tracks, standardizing the id3 tags, etc. I love my music collection. But the era of the single device experience is over and as such I need a little more. Up until now, I’ve been copying tracks over to my phone every time I need new portable music.
At one point I was using Clementine Music Player on my laptop and using Clementine Remote on my phone. But Clementine died and hasn’t received an update in years.
I tried Plex but holy fuck, it made a mess of my collection. I couldn’t search for tracks by rating and I couldn’t do searches like “(genre: hip-hop OR genre: rap) AND rating>4)” which made it double useless for me.
So I guess my question is, is what can I point at my NAS music directories, which can allow me to stream music from my server when I’m in the house, will allow me to filter by ratings and anything else I like, fucks off the money grab which is the artists (plural) id3 tag, will allow me to update ratings from my phone or laptop and will allow me to copy to my local device for when I’m ready to leave out?
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If you’re just looking for a music solution, check out Navidrome. It’ll run on basically anything, and there are plenty of compatible apps for playback (Subsonic API).
Jellyfin can handle music alongside movies/shows, but the music side isn’t as feature-rich. Great for basic playback though, I run both.
So I’ve been looking up Navidrome and it turns out it runs on everything except my NAS, an original Western Digital My Cloud EX2. So now I’m considering how to get around that, I’m planning to get a RaspberryPi 5, so maybe I can run it on there and point it to my storage.
Have you tried Plexamp with Plex. While my music collection isn’t as cleaned up as it sounds like yours is, but I just checked and you can create playlists with rules such as genre and ratings and other options.
While not FOSS, I do really enjoy Plexamp.
I didn’t, basically it keeps hanging in addition to the abortion that is the mangled tags support on my NAS and so I turned it off.
Jellyfin? Or SubSonic? I don’t know if SubSonic is still around, but I’ve heard good things about Jellyfin.
I’m using SubSonic right now, but it is being slowly replaced by OpenSubSonic
Subsonic has also become a sort of de facto standard which has been reimplemented by many servers and players so there’s lots of choices.
This reply lead me down this rabbit hole!
Thank you!
Jellyfin is great but has some issues that can make it annoying. The 3rd party clients are often better than the normal interface. The server is easy to set up. So I can recommend all of it.
Honestly though, just because it isn’t updated doesn’t mean it is not great. I always revert to Clementine myself. Still use it daily and love it. There is an updated variant called strawberry which is updated and works great, but the remote doesn’t work.
I love Jellyfin for Movies and TV, but for music I find it…weird and unintuitive.
What type of client problems have you run into? I’ve only recently started to use it, so I am looking to avoid any pitfalls if I can.
Love seeing other Clementine users in the wild. Basically I was loving Clementine, but Android broke the remote and so that basically ruined it for me.
As for Jellyfin, like Navidrome, I can’t get in installed on my NAS.
Check out Navidrome. Also the audio streaming section on awesome-selfhosted
It seems nothing runs on my antiquated NAS. I really am going to have to look to upgrade it.
Bummer! Best of luck with the new one.
Let me know when you land on something. I have similar issues and am looking to divest from Spotify.
I like the functionality of Spotify, but the payment is painful.
Landed on Navidrome. The UI is nice enough and the third party app support is cool. My only bit of disappointment is that Musicolet doesn’t support it natively.
