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My current self-hosted home server setup:

- Picard for import/metadata

- Navidrome for a web interface + Subsonic server

- DSub on Android to play (+ permanent cache for offline playback of various "deserted island" albums)

If you have Poweramp (Android), it can read the cache folder of DSub. This is the best audio configuration I've found thus far. It's great. Navidrome is one of the best software packages I've found recently. Love it. Picard is equally amazing once you get the hang of the UI.

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I just started looking at music streaming software last week, and installed Navidrome on an Oracle Cloud instance as a test. So far, so good, although it took a while to discover that Oracle's Ubuntu image uses iptables, after which I found that the network connection with unlimited ingress and 10 TB of egress is a lot slower than the advertised 1 Gbps, at least on a free-tier ARM instance.

My impression has been that MusicBrainz has more typos and weirdly formatted metadata than FreeDB. Now that I know more of its background, I'll look into it more. My CD collection is mostly ripped to full-album FLAC + CUE, so correct metadata will likely be an important part of converting to MP3 for streaming.

I have been doing this for a long time, and FreeDB's metadata is way, way worse than MusicBrainz's, and has less coverage too.

If you find any issues in MusicBrainz metadata you can submit a correction, which will be reviewed and voted on by community members. I've done this maybe 4-5 times for my collection of about 2000 releases and in each case, my correction was quickly accepted.

Does Navidrome care about the file structure of the music folder? Does it properly respect embedded tags?

I've tried to use various web-based music streaming servers in the past, but keep finding they fetched their own metadata in the background, ignoring the tags I've curated and modified to my liking.

AFAIK, it only uses the metadata embedded in the files. I don't think folder structure matters at all. There may be a way to turn on optional musicbrainz integration or something, but I haven't looked into it. If something isn't right I go back into Picard and it's usually a quick fix. It's surprisingly decent for being a two year old project.

Ah cool, I'll give a try then. The last go around with different options was so frustrating, I've just been mounting the music directory with sshfs and playing with foobar2000 in Wine. Which is not as practical for mobile though.

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