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Selfhosted alternative to Spotify (buddyverse.one)
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I'm currently using @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz for my music collection after downloading over 2.5k songs from YouTube Music (Premium). While it works fine for most things, I'm looking for a better alternative. My key requirement is to read files from a mounted WebDAV folder (NextCloud Folder).

The Subsonic API in NextCloud Music works fine, and I've had no issues streaming through clients like Symfonium and Subtract. However, I want to eliminate the 5-10 second buffering issue I experience on mobile. When I tried @powerampache@floss.social, my NextCloud AIO instance became unresponsive after about 30 minutes (happened twice, not sure why).

I also tried Navidrome, but I didn't like how it organizes music—it only recognizes album artists, which doesn’t work for me since I don’t have albums. I downloaded the songs in Playlists using Seal.

Ideally, I’m looking for a solution that streams high-quality music instantly, like Spotify or YouTube Music. If possible, I'd prefer tweaking my Nginx config to resolve the buffering issue rather than setting up new software. What alternatives do you guys use for fast, high-quality music playback with WebDAV support?

Edit: Forgot to mention, the buffering issue only occurs when I use a Subsonic or Ampache client with NC Music. The web version works very smoothly.

Edit: The issue with Nextcloud Music was occurring because of rate limiting.

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[-] chrundle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Navidrome should recognize both album-artists and artists. In my phone app (Symfonium) I see them separately and I can browse by individual artists or by album-artists.

[-] mitexleo@buddyverse.one 1 points 2 months ago

Not sure why it didn't work for me. I've also tried Jellyfin. Had the same issue.

[-] chrundle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

How are you tagging those and in which tagging software?

[-] mitexleo@buddyverse.one -1 points 2 months ago

I use NextCloud Music and Recognize (a NextCloud app). It's showing all albums and genres (mostly) correctly. Also I can go to a artists page and see all of his songs.

NextCloud Music supports both subsonic and ampache API.

[-] chrundle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Recognize

I am not familiar with these, but it seems it's automated tagging? Then it depends how it writes the tags and the separators. Try viewing the tags in Musicbrainz or some other manual tagging software to check.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I'm doimg the same, but with the substreamer app.

this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
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