I see that when people ask for music servers, people frequently suggest Navidrome or mpd/mopidy. I haven’t tried either. I’m just using Jellyfin as an all-in-one. I’m wondering why do people choose to use a dedicated music server over an all-in-one like Jellyfin?
Is the extra overhead worth it?
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I use AIO approach with jellyfin but I’m thinking about changing it.
I like how jellyfin handles music, but the search feature is unusable with so many files.
Each time I search for a movie it search through thousands of music files and music people. And jellyfin search feature is bad as it is. I’m waiting for them to fix ot but it doesn’t seem like it.
So maybe taking music out would make that feature usable again.
Navidrome for music, jellyfin for video based media. Audiobookshelf for podcasts and audiobooks.
Get the best of each one, much better.
I just wish the audiobookshelf android app had auto play for the next episode. Like the web version does.
I never noticed… But you are right, there is no autoplay for next episode
I’ve been using Jellyfin for several years and couldn’t be happier. Tbe beta update of the Finamp music player for Jellyfin is a UI overhaul that makes it nearly perfect for playing music on both my phone and my computers, gapless playback, support for downloading songs for offline playback, Spotify-like seperate Now Playing & Next Up queues. Makes it hard to want anything else tbh
Jellyfin works nicely for music, as long as you use a good client. The native jellyfin mobile app is not optimized for music. I use symphonium for android listening and am very pleased with it. More settings than Id ever need, different options for downloading/caching songs on device, support for subtitles and all.
I don’t run Jellyfin yet, does it or symphonium support playlists? I guess generally some kind of recommendation algorithm would be nice, but would need some third party metadata like from last.fm
Jellyfin natively supports playlists. Symphonium also supports playlists, both local and from your Jellyfin server.
i am enjoying navidrome and mopidy together! mopidy for in house, Tempo or subtracks for on the go.
works with home assistant quite well if the MPD extension is installed on Mopidy.
Clients often are better suited for music, specially for mobile. For example with Subsonic clients (Navidrome, Gonic, etc), the client aggressively caches the queued songs, which is super helpful when there are hiccups in the network while traveling. A few clients allow me to configure the cache size, allow me to mark some titles are always cached, allow me to browse the cache (case I don’t have network at all). It’s just way better suited for music.
And on the desktop clients are way lighter weight.
Ultrasonic caches too much, on my phone. It has a limiter, but for some reason ignores it. Once a year I have to go and nuke the whole app because it’s using all 120 gigs available 🙃
It’s a feature not a bug 🤪
Makes zero sense to use a dedicated music server if you also have other media to serve. Plex and Plexamp for me, haven’t seen anything better on the market.
One major reason why I have Ampache as a separate server is that they support smart playlist, which wasn’t well supported on Jellyfin. Navidrome also supports smart playlist, but you couldn’t edit on the web.
I’ve used Plex’s music before. It works well. They have a dedicated Plexamp app for it. Works well with audiobooks too.
