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.

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.

Really feeling this, the first paragraph could've written by me and I switched to Navidrome as well some months ago.

Btw, your RSS feed seems to be broken:

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Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely.

“Discover” new music by statistical means based on your average tastes.

This is the main thing I want out of music software tbh.

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.

I know there is a lot about Plex to hate, but I am always grateful for Plexamp. It requires a Plex pass, but it’s worth it for Plexamp alone imo.

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.

I recently set up a Navidrome/Lidarr setup and I'm beyond thrilled. Works great. I also recommend Symfonium app on android, it's paid, but it's worth it for the quality. On desktop, I'm trying out strawberry, but I find it a bit clunky, so I will probably try out other players. Use beet to download and ebmbed lyrics, and my music has never been better. I immediately ditched Spotify and haven't looked back.

I don’t know why so many people think you have to do one or the other, that you can’t host your own and use spotify.

No matter how much you might hate Spotify from an ideological point of view, you cannot deny its amazing music discovery ability.

I use Spotify as a way to find what to add to my collection, which I then stream using Plexamp when it makes more sense than just using Spotify - which isn’t very often tbh, only really when license issues prevent an album being in my country on Spotify. I can share my plex music library with friends and family though.

Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely. The particular songs don’t matter much. They are fungible as long as the general mood stays consistent.

can’t relate

i find new awesome music all the time, i only found i loved hardstyle 8 years ago, techno 5 years ago, vaporwave like a year ago

This is a fantastic service if you’re not that interested in music and are just looking for the aural version of mediocre Ikea artwork to cover the bare walls of your day

if you want to make it harder for yourself to discover new music then cool, but don’t imply that because you used spotify as a sort of cafe jazz background radio that we all use it like this

I use jellyfin for music. Some of the third party apps are nice. I can even stream it to Jellyfin app on Android Audio from my server while I'm driving, which is crazy to me.

I've been using Navidrome for a few months now. I also use Amplify on my iphone to stream using native controls which I find very useful.

syncthing+musicolet(android) and cmus(linux) works lile a charm

Neat! As someone who never had that much luck with Spotify's recommendations, this is part of what worked for me.

When I want a specific mood or even artist for music I own, I use navidrome.

To expand that collection I use bandcamp (and bandcamp Fridays).

To discover new stuff, I rely on recommendations from friends or go wide with sources like NTS radio or similar.