r/navidrome

​​Hey everyone,

​I’m looking to self-host my music library and finally cut the cord with commercial streaming. I have an old Mac Mini I want to use as a 24/7 server, and I’m planning on using Navidrome.

​I'm pretty new to the self-hosting world, so I’d love to be pushed in the right direction before I dive down a rabbit hole.

​Should I run Navidrome bare-metal on macOS, or is it better to learn Docker?

​What’s the best, most secure way to handle remote access when I'm away from home?

​What are the go-to iOS/Android client apps for it?

​Any specific tutorials, guides, or YouTube channels you recommend for a beginner?

​Appreciate any tips or "wish I knew this sooner" advice you have!

as the title says...

Got news to share? Put it here! New apps, old apps with new updates, integrations, you name it.

Got an app that is ready to add to the catalog? Check out the submission documentation and go for it.

Are there any plugins for Navidrome that allow you to edit your library's metadata? I have a fairly large library and there are often times when I discover a mistake or something I want to change in the metdata and I have to use another tool which just takes more time.

Hiiii as a complete beginner, I want to share my navidrome playlists with people. How do I get it so I can share it with anyone? Someone suggested Caddy. Would I have to use any other services with that? Would I have to pay anything to do this? Like I see the 2 Navidrome pages about externalized authentication, but idk what that is; it sounds like it'd just be signing in somewhere, and idk if that lets me share playlists with anyone I want, etc. Any directions appreciated, thanks!

After a few hours of testing, I finally got synchronized lyrics working in Symfonium without:

- .lrc files

- embedded lyrics in FLAC or MP3

- modifying my music library

My setup:

- TrueNAS SCALE 25.10

- Navidrome 0.62.0

- Symfonium 14.1.0

The solution was:

1. Install the "nd-lyrics" plugin for Navidrome.
2. Enable it without write permissions.
3. Configure:

ND_LYRICSPRIORITY=nd-lyrics,.lrc,.txt,embedded

I originally tried:

ND_LYRICSPRIORITY=plugin,.lrc,.txt,embedded

but Navidrome reported:

Lyrics plugin not found plugin=plugin

Using the actual plugin ID (`nd-lyrics`) solved it immediately.

Now Symfonium displays synchronized lyrics directly from Navidrome without creating .lrc files or modifying any FLAC files.

Hopefully this helps someone else, because most discussions I found only suggested embedding lyrics or managing thousands of .lrc files.

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Here are the exact steps that worked for me.

1. Install the plugin:
2. https://github.com/J0R6IT0/navidrome-lyrics-plugin
3. Copy `nd-lyrics.ndp` into Navidrome's `plugins` folder.
4. In Navidrome:
5. - Go to **Plugins**
6. - Click **Rescan**
7. - Enable the plugin
8. - Grant access to your music library (read-only is enough)
9. - **Do NOT enable write access**
10. - **Do NOT enable "Write lyrics to files"**

https://preview.redd.it/o15iwel240bh1.png?width=1121&format=png&auto=webp&s=b54d68a2d34b7b2fa6455e8d2ae4d5b0a0cca959

4. Add this environment variable to Navidrome:
   ND_LYRICSPRIORITY=nd-lyrics,.lrc,.txt,embedded

https://preview.redd.it/axt5wzgs50bh1.png?width=460&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef87672c2aa1ae107fe19c2d886321e348a1088c

5. Restart Navidrome.

That's it! Symfonium immediately started displaying synchronized lyrics.

Hello,

How do you guys are deleting music in batch please ?

I have few music that a need to delete because they have bad metadata or ahs been downloaded without any reason will i was setting up everything. I can't do it via my file browser because each songs are in differents folder, in others differents folder (Artist - Album - The track i want to delete)

Thank you !!

Even tho i enabled all the necessary settings, noting that i'm running the Native deployment version of each (no docker used), i also configured the necessary plugin, as you can see, i cant even get past the login screen

https://preview.redd.it/68hunc1501bh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea44cf5b8127b4573b7e976116a7075a357b1b14

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I don't really like Symfonium because it's paid, and I don't have a credit card or any other way to purchase it. I'm also completely de-Googled, so I don't use any Google apps or services.

Are there any good, fast, and preferably free music clients for Navidrome? (Android, ofc)

(SOMETHING FREE)

I have Navidrome running on my Truenas machine and I installed AudioMuse through the built in catalog. When I go into the AM web UI and enter the info of my Navidrome server, the connection test succeeds. What I still don't understand is why after running my initial analysis, it fails to show tracks in my database. The Clustering jobs ends with this error:

{
  "error": {
    "error_class": "Clustering Error",
    "error_code": 6001,
    "error_message": "Playlist clustering failed. Not enough tracks in DB (0) for clustering."
  },
  "error_message": "Playlist clustering failed. Not enough tracks in DB (0) for clustering.",
  "error_type": "ValueError",
  "error_value": "Not enough tracks in DB (0) for clustering.",
  "message": "Clustering task failed permanently after all retries."
}

Any help would be appreciated.

I used Yuzic, but it had some bugs and inconveniences. I fell in love with Amperfy, but when I play music, my phone gets hot af (to the point when it feels dangerous). What IOS client can you guys recommend? I know there are many of them, and I just don't want to fall into the rabbit hole xd

Edit:
Thanks y’all for your input. From proposed i chose Arpeggi

I am migrating my library to Navidrome and its been great so far but there are still 2 issues I am having trouble with:

1. Misidentified artist. E.g. A song from the J-Pop artist LiSA is showing up as a K-Pop artist with the same name. I can edit the picture but the bio is still the same. Is there a way to identify a specific artist and fetch the data from that? Similar to how Jellyfin can match IMDB ID for movies.

2. Artists with aliases. Some electronic artists go by several different aliases, is there a way to merge different aliases to an artist? E.g. DJ Sharpnel/jea/Sharpnel.exe are all the same person.

Title says it all. Want to be able to pause, play click next track etc from the taskbar.

How are playlist made?

Emby lets me click and drag songs or whole playlist into other list.

Can something similar be done through navidrome or a PC client or a phone client?

Can songs in playlist be multi selected and added to new playlist?

Are smart playlist only created using text files?

How does each user add new songs to the library or is it all on the admin to do it?

Looking for suggestions to integrate music into my setup.

Setup:

Windows pc, used for general use and my stack

Docker desktop with wsl2

All the usual arrs

All drives mapped. Managed by DrivePool & smb.

Looking for a decent setup to play music on Androidtv nvidia shield.

Think need discogs integrated as mediabrainz was hit and miss on a lot.

A lot of my music, about 60% is dj albums like dmc, mastermix, some obscure stuff as well as commercial stuff, and folders full of singles, like house, uk garage, dnb etc. Most is already tagged..

Important is a nice ui on tv, easy to navigate. Features like shuffle, random, automix a plus but not essential, some form of screen saving when music is playing preferred, like not just a static screen. Good sorting of artists, genres, albums.

I dont want to pay, i dont mind a one off small outlay, but not subscriptions. I dont want plex or kodi.

I have tried jellyfins built in music feature not good, but not any plugins, JF integration would be a plus. Also tried, a few months back symfonium but it was not good on tv at all, and too bloated and buggy.

I know perfect dont exist, just looking for best option to suit my needs.

Any advice appreciated.

I'd enabled it via EnableSharing=true

The link generated doesn't seem to work on my android nor iphone, so..

Maybe it's because I use tailscale? Though I'm not using it atm