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Comment on Organizing self-hosted classical music collection in ~comp
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Comment on Organizing self-hosted classical music collection in ~comp
dweymouth LinkFellow Navidrome user here as well with a decent amount of classical music (maybe 30-40% of my library). I have a system that works (well enough at least) for me. Rule 1 is the Artist tag is...Fellow Navidrome user here as well with a decent amount of classical music (maybe 30-40% of my library). I have a system that works (well enough at least) for me. Rule 1 is the Artist tag is always the performer. Since Navidrome doesn't support multiple artists per track/album, I use the comma to join multiple artists, like "Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic". (Once multi artists are supported I will probably re-tag my library) Rule 2 the Composer tag is always set to the composer's full name - Navidrome currently doesn't index the Composer tag, but when it does (it's planned) my library will be ready. Rule 3 the Album Artist tag is either the performer or the composer. For older classical music, I use the performer as the album artist always. For contemporary, I will use either, largely depending on which is more prevalently featured on the cover art (composer or performer). Rule 4 if the album artist is set to the performer, the composer's (last) name is always part of the album title. (e.g. Album="Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos", Artist=Album Artist="Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert"). That way, searching the composer's name will pull up that album in the results set. Rule 5 Navidrome does support multiple genres (separated by ; ), so I tag any/all of the period (e.g. "Impressionist"), instrumentation (e.g. "Orchestral"), and "Classical" as a catch-all, so that the album will show under any of those classifications. The Subsonic API only allows returning one genre per album, though it will appear in the list for all of its genres, so put the most descriptive genre, the one you want to show in the UI, first.
Also wanted to give a quick plug for my desktop Subsonic client, Supersonic, which supports gapless playback, since gapless transitions between tracks are quite common in classical music.
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Comment on Self-hosters! Share your reasons for self-hosting and favorite apps! in ~comp
dweymouth (edited )Link ParentJust wanted to add a quick plug for my desktop client Supersonic! I used Sonixd myself but my main impetus to start writing my own client was the lack of (true) gapless playback in Sonixd, and...Just wanted to add a quick plug for my desktop client Supersonic! I used Sonixd myself but my main impetus to start writing my own client was the lack of (true) gapless playback in Sonixd, and also infinite scrolling. (Sonixd's successor Feishin also has both now, but has also dropped support for the Subsonic API in favor of Navidrome's native API)
(I'm active on Tildes under a different account, but want to keep it pseudonymous, so I'll use this new account for personally-identifiable things)
Glad you're enjoying it! The older Mac support is all thanks to someone else in the community who figured out how to compile MPV on older macs and build Supersonic against it - I just had to add their binaries to the repo and build against them. Definitely let me know if you encounter any other issues or have feature requests!