Hi everyone, I’m running a Proxmox server with a Docker LXC container and want to set up a music server. I’ve heard about many services, but I’m not sure which one fits my needs best. My goals:

A program that lets me play music with many client apps, ideally with offline playback for some tracks.

A tool that helps me discover and download music, similar to how I use Deluge, Prowlarr, and SABnzbd for my movie server.

A service that recommends music based on my taste and playlists, like Spotify does. This is especially important for me because I’m not very creative with my playlists—they tend to be short and boring.

I want to share the server with my girlfriend, who uses Apple devices, so the experience should be as smooth as Spotify for her.

What self-hosted music servers do you use in your homelabs? Are there any tools that can analyze my existing playlists and suggest similar music? Do you have any tutorials, blog posts, or Docker Compose files for easy setup?

I’m really excited to hear what you’re using and what you recommend!

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I highly recommend a Navidrome/Slskd/beets[lyrics]/Symfonium setup!

    I have a Navidrome server that serves music in a Library Folder (B), a Slskd server that serves a Soulseek web UI and downloads to a Download Folder (A), and beetbox beets program with the lyrics plugin installed via pipx that has config parameters set so that I can manually run it, it’ll detect and allow me to identify songs downloaded to Folder A, inject synced lyrics, and move them to an organised folder structure in Folder B.

    • Navidrome doesn’t need organisation, I just do it to be neat.
    • beets uses MusicBrainz and another I believe for song/album ID, and lrclib for synced lyrics
    • I also have Lidarr set up to download from Soulseek with the Tubifarry plugin, get lyrics via lrclib and move to Folder B with the same structure as beets, but its metadata is heavily lacking and many images and artist song data is just nonexistent after about two months of “populating” (see below)
    • You can use any Subsonic client but I find Symfonium to be incredible. Paying these devs is worth it!