Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative

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  1. beets

    music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

    > Given an existing collection - Is there an easy way to auto sort & tag everything? e.g. Merge the artists 'Guns N Roses' and 'Guns and Roses' into the most correct one.

    I've recently started using Beets[1] to organize my music collection. It's a command line application that IMHO is not entirely intuitive to use at first. But once you get the hang of it, it works incredibly well.

    [1]: https://beets.io/

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API

    Love JellyFin!

    I do not mind the lankiness, since I can work around a lot of it with the API.

    I do not even mind too much the Love Exposure bug:

    https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/10494

  4. nuclear

    Streaming music player that finds free music for you

    If you can't find a place to pay for it, then just do what Spotify did when they launched. I recommend Nuclear[0] for that

    [0] https://nuclearplayer.com/

  5. tempo

    An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. (by CappielloAntonio)

    Do you use a local client that accepts caching/offline playback of the content ?

    I'm looking through the android clients and none seem to fully embrace keeping the most played tracks on device ("offline mode"). Tempo[0] has in on the wip list, while StreamMusic straight removed in it the latest update[1], so as of now it looks like a pretty tough feature to get.

    Listening to music in remote places is nice, and that was the main reason for paying for Spotify for me.

    [0] https://github.com/CappielloAntonio/tempo#readme

  6. docker-media-center

    Docker Media Center running Jellyfin under Traefik, fully automated and production ready solution

  7. musium

    Music playback daemon with web-based library browser

    I wrote my own networked music player, https://github.com/ruuda/musium. It's not nearly as fully featured as Jellyfin, but it does do what I want in exactly the way I want it. A feature I implemented a while ago is to make it show me albums I listened to a lot in the past, but not recently, and it's been great to rediscover some of those albums.

  8. PhotoPrism

    AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

    You might check out https://www.photoprism.app/

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. rockbox-zig

    Rockbox open source high quality audio player as a Music Player Daemon. This project brings modern enhancements to the classic Rockbox firmware, using Zig and Rust for improved performance and maintainability ⚡ 🦀

  11. ytm-dumper

    Backup your YouTube Music Cache / Offline data

    My use case is that I sometimes like to use my subscription music on an offline MP3 player. So I keep my YTM subscription and am using https://github.com/ryanprop/ytm-dumper to download its files and put them on my MP3 player.

    This might work for your use case too, though if you're just using it to grab content, the artists won't get royalties..., then again that seems to be the same for Linux ISO sites.

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