Spotify has a feature where if it is playing on another device, you can control it with any other device logged into the account, is there any good way to replicate this with a linux desktop and an android phone?
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That's something I've struggled to find so far unfortunately. Maybe something exists but I haven't found an answer yet.
It really is spotify's killer feature for me, probably won't switch to something that doesn't have it.
That whole Spotify Connect feature and Sonos support is what keeps me in the ecosystem, unfortunately...
Maybe Navidrome's jukebox mode, although I suspect it's a slightly different idea (and it was a bit buggy last time I tried it).
Jellyfin has a remote control feature that lets you do something like this, I use it quite a lot for music.
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Thanks for putting this together! This is an excellent write up and is super informative! I'm already using Navidrome + Tempo with Lidarr for my music library, but since the database issues with Lidarr popped up a few months ago I haven't bothered adding new stuff.
I had no idea Explo was a thing, it's just what I've been hoping existed. I'm going to try and get it integrated into my set up.
I just rolled some of this out on my setup. I already had lidarr running, but didn't know about the metadata issue.
Beets is running excruciatingly slow importing my music collection. Anyone have any insight on this? I'm running the Linuxserver.io docker container with a very basic config.
Soulseek is new to me and I set that up with a vpn.
Couple of questions about the directory structure: why separate library folders? Can't they play off a central library and wouldn't something like Overseer take care of requests?
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This setup is very similar to mine
Might be worse than Spotify when it comes to privacy but YT Music with Adblock is great. And AFAIK they have better music quality.
Thank you for writing this. The past month I spent some time trying to look for a way to import listenbrainz playlists to jellyfin/navidrome but I was not finding anything. Explo is awesome!
Another tool I discovered yesterday is sptnr, which leverages the spotify API and converts Spotify's popularity to Navidrome star ratings. This allows me to go to an artist and sort by rating descending, which actually becomes popularity descending.
Now I'm using jellyfin mainly because the listenbrainz plugin allows scrobbling favorites, while navidrome does not support this. If anyone knows a way to scrobble favorites from navidrome to listenbrainz I would really appreciate it.