cross-posted from: https://piefed.zeromedia.vip/c/selfhosting/p/451238/1-year-into-navidrome-with-dilligent-tagging-and-rating-and-this-is-how-someone
forgive the tyos, english is absolutely my first language but we strugglin over here, ya feel? or, take it as confirmation this ain’t some damn clanker bullshit
It’s just like holy shit! this is what I’ve wanted my music to do my whole life! This is almost just another member of the family.
Feishin and the smart playlists really really shine when adding user ratings into the mix. plus, adding a “mood” tag and then being able to use our own terms, it is incredible.
Build a custom station with the tags you want, then add “not played in the last <blank> days” (depending on how much traffic/supply of that particular kind of music gets) and it keeps it fresh. Add in “rating is not 1” and you’ll see the stuff that hasn’t been rated yet, but it won’t even let 1 start tracks into the queue!
I have rediscovered old favorites, found new songs by classic artists, have perfectly curated playlists down to the nth degree, custom stations that show me exactly what i want before i even knew i wanted to listen to that right then, all without commercials, on every device i own.
i am pumped for the future of the open subsonic API’s! I think a skipped count could be awesome. I’d like to automate some stuff based off skip counts.
the navidrome plugins are getting some inertia, i am excited to see where that goes.
Other Navidrome/opensubsonic users, how do you guys use the 5 stars? for me it is
- 5 amazing song, not only will i 99% of the time never skip it, i will try to get everyone’s attention and have them listen
- 4 i really like this song and have stopped what i am doing to pay attention to it, it is not likely but may get skipped depending on the mood/genre desired at that time
- 3 - this song is good and i notice it and smile while continuing doing my thing, unless it is the wrong mood/genre (can i blast it while working?), which means it gets skipped.
- 2 - this song is unobtrusive and doesn’t appear to bother or inspire me.
- 1 this song catches my attention due to disliking it. I will go out of my way to stop it from playing. i set up my stations to never call for those again.
I am looking for other ways to interface with this to be able to rate songs a little easier/safer (while driving?)
I am hopeful i will have the wiggle room to donate to navidrome, feishin, snapcast, mopidy, spindle, soon!!!
This puts me in mind of the smart playlists I built in iTunes. Several playlists of 3/4/5* tunes, plus a few other rules to bring lesser played tunes to the surface. These all fed in to one bigger 50 track playlist that would pick something like 30% of its tracks from 5*, 25% from 4*, 20% from 3*, then make up the rest with the other stuff. Oh, and it would filter out any track that wasn’t 5* that had been played in the last two weeks.
Then, when I was rocking my iPod, if I was digging something that wasn’t rated, I could spin up a rating and it’d get shifted to the corresponding list ready to drop into the pool for future enjoyment.
It was properly great.
I guess you can still do it with Apple Music, but it’s not as much fun when your library is thousands of songs you added and never listened to again.
Anyway, I’m going to see if I can recreate it with Navidrome. I’ve got 14k tracks in there and a willingness to listen to them all.
Kick it man. Navidrome + Feishin + Substreamer (or equal) rocks. If you have duplicates, I used czkawka to de-dupe. I was able to clear a fair amount that had accumulated over the years. It can distinguish two songs of the same title, but different renditions.
this is exactly it!! the query terms are there to rig up hardly ever needing do anything but choose a playlist at the beginning of the day/week.
If we could get the skip track metrics in, we could even start curating the flow of the playlists ( 5 skips of tracks with the genre containing “metal” will call a calmer playlist?)
and yes!! the
date last playedletting me havenot in the last ___is so useful!