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?

  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    thanks for your response!

    i had ampache running in docker for like an hour or something but can’t remember why i didn’t give it a fair shot. i think it was because i was still looking for jukebox mode.

    how long have you been running it?

    i had gonic for a bit but ended up back at Navidrome as the playlists can be edited by the mopidy subidy extension.

    still haven’t figured out the smart playlists lol

    • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      I build smart playlists for Navidrome with Symfonium on Android or Feishen on desktop, then export to server to get them into Navidrome. I also have been playing around with local AI generating smart playlists with mixed success. The file structure is very simple.

      Navidrome just announced plug-ins last release. I think an AI playlist maker would be pretty fun.

    • [object Object]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Definitely more than a year! If you have tried it in the past, you probably dropped it either because you used it before the revival, or the UI looked really old. At least that was what I did.