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I personally use Jellyfin ONLY for Video stuff.

AudioBookShelf[1] is for audiobooks and podcasts.

For music I use

  navidrome [2]

The smart playlist feature[5] is awesome. Having 3 services instead of one seems overkill, but specialized apps instead of one generic one feels different. One interesting aspect of navidrome is, that it has implemented the Subsonic API, which MANY Apps make use of. My personal favorite is

  Substreamer [3]

but you could also go with DSub[4] or others.

1: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

2: https://www.navidrome.org/

3: https://substreamerapp.com/

4: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/github.daneren2005.dsub/

5: https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/smartplaylists/

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The thing I miss and can't find a replacement for is lastfm inside of Spotify. It gave two things and did it exceptionally well:

1. Helped me take something I like or am super into at the time (band or song) and give me a playlist

2. actually suggested with a high hit rate something I didn't know about and it was available to play right now.

other streaming or stations just loop into what I already have which sucks. Side note that I'm into pretty niche non mainstream music such as Melodic Death Metal and Industrial so self hosting seems interesting but I also spend a good chunk of my time looking for more music. (Most of the bands I am really into only have sub-20k plays a month on Spotify).

I really miss Napster letting you browse people's music when you found someone who was also into things you liked - pure gold mine only second to a LAN party where you could dig through the file server.

> I really miss Napster letting you browse people's music when you found someone who was also into things you liked - pure gold mine only second to a LAN party where you could dig through the file server.

If you are a bandcamp user, find people with similar purchases to you and follow them. It is a good way to browse for new albums based on people with similar tastes.

I tend not to overload my personal library with stuff I'd never listen to.

However navidrome at least supports lastfm via external Integration: https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/external-integrations/

I never used it so I can't tell if this is what you're looking for or at least the right direction.

Soulseek provides a similar experience! You browse users' files and find folks with great collections of cool stuff.

Thanks for mentioning audiobookshelf. I'd totally given up on using jellyfin for audiobooks. It just absolutely butchers any book split into multiple files, which is basically all of them.

I'll give audiobookshelf a look!

You're welcome. The Android app is pretty good, but for iOS it remains unreleased, so you have to deploy yourself. Prologue seems to be the best iOS App.

There are other unofficial Clients (e.g. in flutter), but I tend to use audiobookshelf as streaming player paired with vlc to play downloaded offline files (the app is not so great here)

There is a paid audiobook shelf client on iOS… I think it is like a one time $5 or something. Totally worth it to me, it has worked great and I don’t have to do the bullshit test app stuff (which stopped working for audiobookshelf anyway because too many people were using the test app)

Neat! Can you stream navidrome to a smart TV? I have speakers connected to them and I usually stream to it using airplay on iOS.

Substreamer is available for iOS and Android, DSub is Android only afaik.

If your smartTV supports Subsonic API, it probably works, but if not, it's possible to point Jellyfin and Navidrome to the same audio directory.

If you use an AppleTV, there’s also a pretty decent navidrome client called LMP.

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