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Navidrome Music Server
- How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017)
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When you use a Walkman the memories come back: the people in love with old tech
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/
- Navidrome: Self-Hostable Music Server
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Ask HN: Managing MP3s on Mac/iOS Without Streaming Services
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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Navidrome 0.50.1 Bug Fix Release
[Scanner] Fix Windows scanner (#2633). Thanks @caiocotts
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Navidrome 0.50.0 just released!
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
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.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux
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
- Navidrome: Open-Source Software to enjoy your music collection from anywhere
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How to fix ND playlist after changing folder structure?
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.
- Building a digital music collection in 2023
m4b-tool
- Plex Music library incorrect track order
- Audiobooks and chapter selection.
- help: how to disable Shuffle for audiobooks?? I disabled everything I could find that had shuffle in it. For example this audiobook has 7 parts and rather than play 1-7 it plays in a random order every time this time starting with part 2 first.
- BATCH Merging and converting solution for 3.5 TerraByte Audiobook Library?
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Combining mp3/m4a files into one audiobook?
I’ve been using https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool for years to combine files into m4b, add cover and metadata. I also use iOS and prologue for listening.
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Plex needs an audio book style library
MP3Merge, m4b-tool. This one is interesting for iOS users.
- Question for bulk ripping audiobooks
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Best Windows app for combining multiple MP3s into single M4B
Look into m4btool (https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool). Audiobookbinder increases the m4b filesize. Followed this post for my own purposes: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/426094/convert-multiple-mp3-files-or-single-m4a-into-m4b-with-ffmpeg-and-afconvert
- How to merge several m4a files into a single chapterized m4b?
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Convert m4b
M4B-tool which wraps ffmpeg might be your best bet if you are planning on converting m4b’s.
What are some alternatives?
Airsonic - :satellite: :cloud: :notes:Airsonic, a Free and Open Source community driven media server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic)
ffmpeg-python - Python bindings for FFmpeg - with complex filtering support
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
AudioBookConverter - Improved AudioBookConverter based on freeipodsoftware release (mp3 to m4b converter)
airsonic-advanced
Audiobooks.bundle - Audiobook metadata agent for Plex
Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.
Plex-Audiobook-Guide - A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex
gonic - music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation
jid - json incremental digger
koel - 🐦 A personal music streaming server that works.
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.