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Ah, very interesting to read about Subsonic being used here. I was in the market for a similar setup a while ago and tried a bunch of different servers. Navidro

Ah, very interesting to read about Subsonic being used here. I was in the market for a similar setup a while ago and tried a bunch of different servers. Navidrome was clearly one of the better ones but didn't seem to support folder-based navigation, which I want to use (since most of my music is not structured as album-per-folder but rather as playlist-per-folder). Like a good HN user I ended up writing my own Subsonic compatible server [0]. It also does things mentioned in this blog post series, like automatically grab cover art and metadata from Musicbrainz/CoverArtArchive, Discogs and last.fm. I haven't officially released it yet since it's missing a few features (most notably transcoding, documentation and support for deleting files) but looks like it might be worthwhile to spend that effort. If you're feeling brave, you can compile it from source or grab the Docker edge image[1]. It looks like I missed evaluating https://github.com/sentriz/gonic https://github.com/sentriz/gonic though, so I might give that a go as well. [0] https://github.com/datatrash/beatlocker https://github.com/datatrash/beatlocker [1] https://hub.docker.com/r/datatrash/beatlocker-server https://hub.docker.com/r/datatrash/beatlocker-server

woodruffw 4y ago
I think this may have changed since the last time you checked it out! For my setup (Navidrome with Sonixd as the client), I can navigate through folders just fine. Screenshot here[1]. [1]: https://imgur.com/a/NPHyjgC https://imgur.com/a/NPHyjgC
- royjacobs 4y ago
  Are these folders actual folders on your disk, though? Last time I checked I could use Navidrome to browse folders, but it would actually be browsing through albums instead.
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    Yeah, each of those corresponds to a folder on disk. However, each of my artists is auto-managed by beets[1] so I end up with one folder per artist, including one folder per "feat." artist (like in the screenshot). So this may be a case where my folders happen to align with the artists/albums, which might not work for you. [1]: https://beets.io/ https://beets.io/
    - royjacobs 4y ago
      Right, I think your assumption is correct - it just happens to align. Kudos for organising your collection so well, though :)

woodruffw 4y ago

I think this may have changed since the last time you checked it out! For my setup (Navidrome with Sonixd as the client), I can navigate through folders just fine. Screenshot here[1]. [1]: https://imgur.com/a/NPHyjgC https://imgur.com/a/NPHyjgC

royjacobs 4y ago
Are these folders actual folders on your disk, though? Last time I checked I could use Navidrome to browse folders, but it would actually be browsing through albums instead.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  Yeah, each of those corresponds to a folder on disk. However, each of my artists is auto-managed by beets[1] so I end up with one folder per artist, including one folder per "feat." artist (like in the screenshot). So this may be a case where my folders happen to align with the artists/albums, which might not work for you. [1]: https://beets.io/ https://beets.io/
  - royjacobs 4y ago
    Right, I think your assumption is correct - it just happens to align. Kudos for organising your collection so well, though :)