I’ve been self-hosting my music in Navidrome for the last 3 or 4 years and in general I’ve been very satisfied. Before that I was using an old iPod. The key difference I haven’t been able to recreate in Navidrome is a feeling of my own curated library where I scroll through and recognize all the artists. When I set up navidrome I ended up integrating a bunch of mp3 libraries (my father’s, my own, and a few of my friends). Because many people share the Navidrome server with me, I let them add stuff that they listen to. When I browse the artist in the iOS client play:Sub I end up not recognizing about half the artists. I’ve found that I forget about a bunch of music because I rely so heavily on the ‘search’ function and don’t scroll through my artist library like I did on the iPod back in the day.

I’m not sure how to address this, and I think it pretty significantly affects my relationship to my music library. I’m not sure if the solution is server-side or client-side, but essentially I want to be able to have all the music accessible in some way, and most the time I want to just browse a selection of artists that I choose. I feel like creating a playlist is not sufficient because I don’t know how I would browse by artist within a playlist (at least within the clients I’m familiar with). Has anyone felt this way? Any recs?

Thank you!

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    I favorite artists that I want to have a special place. Moreover, I’ve got a playlist on (unfortunately the best) symfonium that includes only songs from thosr artists.

    • sabreW4K3English
      21·
      8 months ago

      unfortunately the best

      👀

        • sabreW4K3English
          2·
          8 months ago

          Don’t think I was questioning you, I was, if anything agreeing with you. I feel like Symfonium is the most feature complete and yet there’s a very things about it that I really dislike.

          That said, check out Tempo, it looks like it has the most potential.

          • SteveDinn@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            I feel this comment so much. Like you, I’m a Symfonium user, after reluctantly admitting that DSub has stagnated. I really wish someone would just assume that mantle.

            Tempo is probably the best of the current FOSS subsonic-compatible apps, and it ticks most of the boxes, but it still has a way to go to become my daily music app. I posted a review/wishlist in its GitHub discussions for what it could implement to be great in my view, but development seems really slow for it. It might be just one guy, I’m not sure.

            Here’s hoping things get better!