Greetings Lemmings!
I am not new to self hosting; been at it for a few years. And I have neglected a very important part of my home lab; MUSIC!
So I stream music from Navidrome to all of my devices.
My music library has grown organically over the years, for probably the past 17 years. And a few times I had manually organized and fixed up some of the tags. But ultimately I ended up with a mess of a library.
I am working on cleaning that up. Though I absolutely should have cleaned it up before I created 2 backup scripts.
In short, I have a script that is called from a systemd service on a timer that runs my backup script that essentially more or less uses rsync to mirror the files in LiveMusicDir to MusicArchive1. This happens on my docker host where my Navidrome lives. The Music is on an NFS share hosted outside of the docker host.
The next step I run another similar setup on my desktop; systemd service running a script on a timer that uses rsync and other dependencies to track changes.
What I plan to do is organize the source. I am using beets, and learning as I go.
What methods do you use for managing a large music library?
MusicBee, I loved that player back when I was a Windows user. And MediaMonkey if you didn’t mind paying. Those two were the best music players. Now that I am full time Linux, there isn’t a player that even compares.
However, Feishin is about as close as I can get to a UI I like for a player, and luckily it works with Navidrome (jellyfin and others too)
It was, and imo, still is a great piece of software. I’m not always on a Windows machine, but MusicBee is a staple when I am. Every so once in a while, someone writes a piece of software for Windows that just kicks ass. Few and far between, but it’s pretty good stuff.
I do wish they made a Linux port. Because I’m never going back to windows.
It would be nice. I’ve hung on to my stripped down Windows 10 now because I use a program called BlueBeam for one of my business ventures that absolutely has to run on Windows. There is no Linux equivalent, and there is no running it in Wine.
Whenever I have to sift through a big collection, Feishin is no longer the right tool. In that case I use Quod Libet with the 3 panes layout. Resembles Musicbee/MediaMonkey pretty well, while being very fast!
OP: Don’t forget to have some fun with your collection: Mixxx - mixing and looping, so much fun!