Check the sidebar of this community. Should have info on how to start.

Install Feishin on the desktop and you can even create smart playlists.

Navidrome will do that.

I’m on grapheneOS and I’m also using the Fossify apps. It works for my needs.

Agree. I’m still not doing proper backups on my homelab but this is what i’m gonna focus on next. OP has a good NAS setup and IMHO the focus should be on backing up the DB for later restoration (if there’s the need because it might never happen) and keep the DB on the most powerful CPU and quickest disk.

If you liked Ormachy then I think you’ll feel very comfortable with CachyOS + Sway. (I can’t in good conscience recommend hyprland anymore)
The CachyOS team deliver sane configuration files to start a desktop. Then delve into how to setup greeters and lock apps, it’s usually small changes in each config file with your own images and setup.

Not opensource

For everyone that doesn’t want YT
https://tilvids.com/w/bzFBCM7M5oT44tj7uAZQpC

As with anything you pirate, please share.

You could try this
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

😉 it has the same UI design of SoulseekQT or Nicotine+ but it lives on my server

It’s not much, it’s probably only been up for a year, no private trackers plus I only dl what I really want to see these days but I try to make sure the ratio is always above 1.
Been doing this for many years on many shapes and forms across different systems and it barely fails to meet my needs.
I also have my music in slskd.

Accessing from the webpage, if you go to “Settings” > “Home” you can change the sections
This is what i have. “Recently Added Media” shows new additions for each of the libraries you have setup.

I also recommend Wholphin, it’s faster and has better UI than the official Jellyfin app

Wow. Just finished setting it up and tagged 2 álbuns. From slskd to Picard to Navidrome. This really makes my life easier.
Thank you very much kind stranger!!!

That makes a lot of sense and I also like the idea of having apps on the browser. I might take your approach to create a VM and spin it up whenever I need it. Thx.

Why docker though? The desktop app is available on all OS’s.

My experience is similar to a lot of people here. I see that we’ve all had our hurdles over the decades while moving OS’s and I’ve used many of the apps mentioned here (Windows/Linux). I couple of years ago i decide to stream my music because i was already into self-hosting and i really needed to properly tag my music for whatever server app I would use.
I always had my music structured by folder, i was using desktop apps for playback so it kinda worked for me. But i wanted to have better tagging. I had already used kid3 and picard but it lacked automation so I used beets for the albums on my collection (about 12K of songs). It wasn’t perfect but the software is not blame and it was a great way to tag automatically and move files for a consistent folder structure to match my needs.
Right now, since i don’t add music all the time ( a couple per week) i mainly stick to picard to tag new albums. it has 3 actions to manage the files on disk (move, rename, tag), I have script rules for naming files (if required) and i use the ReplayGain plugin. But I also have to point out that the learning curve of picard is rather high, the UI is a mess and it took me a really long time to understand how it works or where the options are.
After trying airsonic for a while i moved to Navidrome and have been using symfonium (android) and Feishin (desktop). It’s the best experience I’ve had since i started listening to music on my pc (199…6/7).
Regarding the source files, it lives on a disk and is backed up to another disk, managed on openmediavault.

Just thought I’d also comment that beets does not have a metadata index, it relies on Musicbrainz for metadata fetching. There are also plugins for other services like Bandcamp or Spotify.

You can use the https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/lastgenre.html plugin to write genres

IT worker, close to 50 years old, only ever could afford low-mid range tech, gamer. Been using windows for over 30 years and linux for 8. Linux works better than windows and it allowed me to improve my tech skills beyond a desktop machine.