I use Jellyfin but I download all my songs from Tidal, Qobuz or Deezer and tag them automatically right then and there in a clean format so Jellyfin does not have to guess at all.

I also have some automatic checks in place to convert incorrect metadata to a proper format. Like moving artists from the title (feat. Somebody else) to the artists tag Somebody; Somebody else and a bunch more.

Together with Finamp on desktop and mobile everything is pretty much working as expected.

I did this for a while, and only switched back to Jellyfin/Finamp while degoogling (needed for paid version). I thought it was definitely worth it while I was using it. I also listen to music on the TV and Jellyfin handles it better than other options I tried (including side-loading symfonium).

I currently use a separate music library manager on my server to organize my music collection, then Jellyfin just does the server work.

I think you'll be very happy with the setup you are using.

Filter by genre tag to make the finding part easier?

Oh, you have 10 random singles in the same directory? That must be an album all from the same artist!

There really isn't any decent alternative. I can run 4 Navidrome servers along side each other using less resources than a single copy of the alternatives. It just works and does almost everything you could want.

At the moment I'm trying out Ampache. It seems to have more features than Gonic.

Careful curation of mp3 tags and a short leash.

My Plex and Jellyfin libraries are the same files and they are both handled identically because I don't let them think about the files.

I used a tool to export my Plex playlists as XML, then wrote a little python to convert them into M3U, jellyfin recognizes the M3 use and just makes playlists.

did you know, that the gonic developer sentriz is developing a beets alternative in go https://github.com/sentriz/wrtag

it works quite well, but lacks a lot of the features of beets

I'll keep an eye on that, thank you, but I've been using beets to maintain a very large library for 10+ years and I'm very happy with it. It was the only software I found to cure my foobar2000 addiction way back when

Not sure this is what you are looking for but navidrome has smart playlists, which is a small configuration file you can add to your navidrome and will automagically create a playlist in your navidrome based on your config.

What application do you use on your phone to mount samba shares (Android)? I know Amaze can mount those but they are not easily accessible by other applications.

Not related to music steaming but I’ll just throw in that Infuse is an awesome iOS, macOS, tvOS app for streaming movies from a Samba (or a multitude of other) servers.

Mstream - it's the lightest and simplest of streaming servers.

SD Card on my phone. i don't stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.

edit don't look for solutions to problems you don't have. most ppl don't NEED to stream everything over the internet.

go back to local.

Navidrome with Symfonium for Android and the Web interface or my new favorite Feishin for Desktop Linux

I have over 3 TB of music. SD cards aren't quite that big yet.

whts yr slsk info? lol

sure, then in your case, if you absolutely must have access to it all at one time, then home streaming makes sense.

for me, and i do imagine most ppl (tho i could be wrong!), it doesn't make sense compared to just returning to local.

genius that i am, i only realized that AFTER i setup a jellyfin server on my home server for streaming my music. XD derp.

You'll know it when you find it.

I use navidrome. And what's nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.

In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.