Georgia VS Navidrome Music Server

I can't, I rely too much on the Georgia theme and it doesn't work without Spider Monkey Panel, which reportedly won't get a x64 version for the time being.

I'm not sure but I do recommend Georgia from kbuffington

It's not actually that much work nowadays. I just recently start ripping some last remaining discs. Musicbrainz plugin on EAC tends to make initial seeding accurate and Musicbrainz Picard for final tagging is pretty easy. On PC, I like the skin Georgia. Iade lots of minor layout tweaks over the years, but don't have the time/attention span to do anything fancy. https://github.com/kbuffington/Georgia

Consider switching to Georgia: https://github.com/kbuffington/Georgia It's the only theme that I know of with DPI scaling for 4K monitors. Keep it mind that it relies on spider monkey panel which doesn't support x64, so you can't use it with the x64 version of foobar2000.

The popular Georgia and Georgia-ReBORN themes include a spinning-disc effect which supports both CD and vinyl art. This demo from Georgia's creator warns it is CPU/RAM-intensive, though - apparently "there's no way" (foobar limitation? spidermonkey limitation? javascript limitation?) to rotate the image in real time, so it has to render multiple copies of the image, each rotated by a few degrees (6 degrees per frame means 60 images, 4 degrees means 90, etc,) and cache all of these to cycle through while the album is playing.

I've been using foobar2000 since the 90s. It plays music quickly, but I really love the extensive tagging and ripping functionality. Another plus is its interface skinning flexibility. There are recently made "modern" looking themes if that's your thing. I'm currently using Georgia[0].

[0]https://github.com/kbuffington/Georgia

The player is not open source but the skin is: https://github.com/kbuffington/Georgia

Georgia-ReBORN is a modification of [Mordred's original Georgia theme](https://github.com/kbuffington/Georgia) for foobar2000.

Nice setup! Since you are using foobar, there is a custom skin you can set up called Georgia. I personally like it since it gives foobar a more modern feel.

When I first moved Georgia over to Spider Monkey I had the same popups when starting foobar with my HDD spun down. I discussed a lot with TheQwertiest who maintains FSM, and ultimately he came to the conclusion that nothing could be done on the Spider Monkey side of things. That meant I had to rearchitect the theme to load files asynchronously so that it wouldn't block everything when including files. Unfortunately that's probably not going to be something you can fix on your own easily.

My primary way to play music is from my self-hosted navidrome[1] server with my collection of albums I've mostly purchased from bandcamp. I can stream it to many different devices at home or on the go.

But sitting next to my bed is a Walkman (actually a $10 Jensen version) with a few of my favorite cassettes in the nightstand drawer. Granted, I listen to raw black metal, so the format fits the music well, but I really enjoy just popping in a cassette and hitting play. When I "metaltate", I listen to full albums and do not want to ever be interrupted or have skipping audio due to bluetooth or anything else. It is a really simple and great experience.

Would I ever take my walkman with me or want to carry around a bunch of tapes on a trip? Of course not! But it does have a time and place that is valuable.

When friends come over, we use either vinyl or my custom built RFID cards. There is more of a ceremony to digging through a physical stack of albums and being forced to listen to the album front to back.

[1] https://www.navidrome.org/

Basically, you run a server on your Mac that scans your music collection and "broadcasts" it to the network (LAN or WAN) via either the venerable UPnP/DLNA[1] family of technologies or the newish Subsonic API[2]. Of course, there are others, like DAAP or AURA, etc..

From there, you need to point a compatible player to said server to play your music on any supported device.

If you want to listen to your music on the go, pairing a Subsonic-compatible server on your Mac and a Subsonic-compatible app on your iPhone is probably the way to go. On the server side, I have only used the original Subsonic[3], which was good, but Navidrome[4] seems to be OK. But be aware that the whole "scene" is super messy and fragmented, with the usual abandoned forks of open source alternatives of everything.

Note that this means opening your local network, which comes with its own complexity.

This r/selfhosted thread[5] should give you an idea.

My use case is slightly different. I only care about streaming to my Denon CEOL mini system, which only supports UPnP/DLNA, so my current setup is:

- All my music is stored on a 2011 Mac Mini,

- I use Kazoo Server[6] (not perfect but reliable) to stream it to my audio system,

- which I control via the HEOS app provided by Denon.

Whatever stack you choose, make sure your files are tagged correctly and consistently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA

[2] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp

[3] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

[4] https://www.navidrome.org/

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/pz9dpb/lets_mak...

[6] https://docs.linn.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Kazoo_Server_setup_Ma...

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EDIT: This version has a bug when running on Windows that breaks your database! I deleted the Windows binary from the download page and will publish a fix very soon. For details see: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/issues/2630

Jellyfin is great for movies & shows. As an anecdote, it's not so good for music if you're a collector. I personally use Navidrome for that[0].

Anyway, Sonarr[1] makes use of .NET, too. Very reliable software, in my experience.

[0]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

I am running ND via the docker container (deluan/navidrome:latest which is 0.49.3 (8b93962f) at the time of this writing) and interact with ND using the web interface.