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I dabbled with a number of music streaming servers, including Ampache and Subsonic (and it's many forks), and had trouble with either web interface loading times or app connectivity and couldn't find one that worked 'as advertised'. In one of these similar music streaming discussion threads, HN member epoupon mentioned the system they'd authored: LMS[0] (Lightweight Music Server), which I found ticked all the boxes and was quick and easy to setup - and there's also a docker image[1].

Not affiliated in any way, just a satisfied user.

[0]: https://github.com/epoupon/lms

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/epoupon/lms

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Navidrome [2] is another relatively new option for music streaming servers. Lightweight, written in Go, can handle very large music collections, and is compatible with Subsonic/Madsonic/Airsonic.

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

The UI is pretty good by modern standards, the existing features work very well, it is very stable IMHO (at least with my 9300+ songs), it is very easy to install.

I have tried 'em all and I'm sticking with Navidrome!

Edit: I forgot, it's fast on a Raspberry Pi 3B, which some aren't.

Did you by any chance try Funkwhale[0]? Seemed like a pretty good option

[0]: https://funkwhale.audio/

No, I didn't know about it until relatively recently, and whilst I'd like to try it out, and it's community, decentralised, federated, open source focus sits well with my world-view, it's just not high enough on my priority list.

Appreciate the response! I saw that you were happy with LMS and added it to my list as well. Someone ought to compare these in a meaningful way at some point.

Looks like LMS has all the basics covered (mobile apps, simple mobile friendly web client, etc), but as a former Grooveshark user Funkwhale was my first choice. Looking forward to trying them both.

Funkwhale is great from a UI standpoint. Adding music, however, was a chore.

I ended up going with the Subsonic server built into Nextcloud, because it's just drag and drop. Nextcloud also has Ampache built in.

i have been using Jellyfin with Finamp and jane been happy with it so far. i also use Jellyfin for video content at home (with Kodi integration).

I know a few Jane's and they're pretty discerning types, so if Jane has been happy then I'd say you're onto a good thing.

Stupid autocorrect jokes aside, I use Jellyfin for exclusively legitimate in-home movies and tv series and haven't yet tried it out for music. For whatever reason, I feel like I want to keep them separated.

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