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Getting off spotify and rediscovering my own music collection

I rediscovered the joy of my own music collection by quitting Spotify and switching to self-hosted Navidrome.

  • Wurzelfurz@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I am actually in the process of setting up my own navidrome server on my proxmox host running on my old desktop hardware.

    I was initially inspired by the following post and am very excited to get rid of Spotify.

    https://lemmy.zip/post/47959947

  • blackbrook@mander.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have no idea about Navidrome, but I completely agree with the gist of this article. Actively choose the music you listen to. When the music you’ve chosen has run out, if you’re not motivated to make another choice, let the music stop and enjoy quiet for a while.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I chose Navidrome for my music collection. I basically use it when I’m outside working around the property. Put on my raggedy ass pair of Beats, I found in the thrift store for $5…had to do some repairs but they work, on a defunct old phone just for the wifi access. When I’m inside tho, I use Music Bee. Navadrome has everything I need, tho I am still searching for a mobile app that operates like I want it too. The app I’m currently using, Agin Music, is good, but there are a couple places in the operation flow that won’t let me backtrack to the previous page I was viewing. I’ll keep testing until I find one.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Android or iOS?

      On android I found symphonium to be a great app to use with my navidrome server. On iOS, play:sub was the best experience I found

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        On iOS, ply:sub was the best experience I found

        I’ll check out ply:sub. Thank you for the recommendation.

      • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Symfonium is great, and in its current state, probably the best Subsonic client for android. (Tempus is good enough for me though.) But best of luck if you ever have a nontrivial issue and ask the dev for help. That’s one abrasive mf. (Just take a look here. It’s hard to find anyone so full of themselves.)

        That said, if it works for your needs, it’s a great app. I won’t judge anyone for using it, but I’m someone who can’t and won’t separate the art from its artist. If that applies to you, you’ve been warned.

  • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I started with Navidrome, then looked at the disk space occupied by my library and it occured to me that 1TB MicroSD cards are a thing now, and I can listen to all my library offline.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.

      So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can’t even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:

      Spoiler

      A tiny USB-A stick, designed for keeping it plugged into a laptop at all times.

      And yeah, I’ve got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.
      And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don’t even need an SD card in my case.)

  • priapus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I also just started the process of migrating to a self hosted music server. I’m using navidrome, but a big feature I want is being able to easily add custom tags to songs that I can later use to search and filter for what I want. Navidrome will only open your library in read-only, which is a smart security measure, but means it cant support this. I’m going to try Koel next and see how that goes.