supersonic VS Navidrome Music Server

Navidrome + Play:Sub on ios and the awesome supersonic for the desktop (https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic). This is the way.

Prior to this, take some time to tag your files with Musicbrainz Picard.

Hi everyone! Just announcing that Supersonic version 0.8.0 is out, now with support for Jellyfin servers! For Jellyfin users, or anyone else new to the app, Supersonic is a lightweight but full-featured cross platform desktop music player for selfhosted music servers, featuring gapless playback, ReplayGain, a graphic equalizer, infinite scrolling grid views, and more!

Navidrome is absolutely brilliant. It works very well for accessing my library; the configuration options (env vars) also give me loads of customizability.

P.S. a well-known secret is Supersonic[0]. It's an excellent cross-platform Subsonic client (which works with Navidrome!). It's not Electron-based, either. Much like Navidrome, I've had absolutely no issues with it. Love it.

[0]: https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic

Gonic is a Subsonic-compatible server that supports folders, but it has no built-in web UI so you need to find clients that support browsing by folders. My desktop client Supersonic currently doesn't support browsing by folders but I have a feature request to add it - and am looking for feedback on how the UI should look/work!

Gonic (a Subsonic-compatible server) supports browse by folder, as does Airsonic-advanced. For Gonic you need clients as it has no built-in web client. Symfonium on Android supports folders. Sonixd on desktop does as well, though it's not actively developed anymore (its successor Feishin does not support folders or the Subsonic API). My desktop client Supersonic doesn't support folders yet, but I have a feature request for it. Feel free to thumbs-up the Github issue and chime in on how the UI for browsing by folders should be designed!

Hi everyone! Version 0.4.0 of Supersonic - an open-source desktop music player for self-hosted Subsonic servers - is out now! This version adds a 15 band graphic equalizer, custom theme support, and more!

Version 0.4.0 of Supersonic is out now! This release adds a 15-band graphic equalizer, custom theme support, and more, and includes several contributions from the community!

Hey everyone! Just announcing a new release of Supersonic - the lightweight, cross platform Subsonic client! This release adds multi-server support, a filter UI for albums browsing views, sorting tracklist views, and other fixes and improvements!

I'm not sure if there's a way to do that in a consistent cross-platform way. But just wanted to say that this is a cool project! And also to mention that I have a GUI music player in Go, Supersonic, that is a client for self-hosted music servers. I use libmpv through CGO for audio playback. If you ever wanted to switch audio backends in your app, I'm open to moving the higher-level interface I built into its own go module, although the low-level mpv bindings it's built on are GPLv3 so you'd need to either relicense Teamus as GPLv3, write a from-scratch mpv binding, or convince the developer to relicense it to MIT.

Hi everyone! I have been developing a desktop music player for Subsonic servers for the past several months and I would like to bring Jellyfin support as well! The project is written in Go. I have completed most of the work in my app to make other media providers pluggable, but some quick Github and Google searching hasn't turned up any pre-existing Go client library for Jellyfin, though there are a bunch for other languages. Was wondering if I could be missing one, or if someone who knows Go and the Jellyfin API might be interested in contributing one :) (I would get around to it eventually but I have other feature development in my app to work on and if there were a preexisting client library I could leverage, Jellyfin support could land much sooner!)

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.