Hello!

currently i use Jellyfin for my music library but i am not really happy with it. I used to use Plex and it was wonderful but… here we are…

I already tried Navidrome but for me a crucial feature is to be able to import spotify playlists and rebuild them with my local library.

For jellyfin there is a plugin that does that and it works 90% of the time. But even after finding several scripts and docker-composes i could host i was never able to properly import my spotify playlists into navidrom. Reason why that is so crucial is that i use spotify to build playlists, make song-radios and add them back into the playlist and then i download this playlist using various tools.

I then rebuild these playlists inside my music library.

Now i found Music Assistant 2.0 for my HomeAssistant and it’s incredibly awesome! Being able to fully use my sonos speakers and group them on the fly is amazing! But using song radios inside it with my jellyfin as the media provider apparently uses jellyfin’s “instant mix” and my goodness is that ever hot garbabe… i have my whole library being properly tagged by Picard and every song has the proper metadata and all that but Instant mix is just plain useless. For 50% of my songs it will just put the same song 5 times into the queue and be done with it. Sometimes it’s actually able to build a good sounding radio but that’s really hit or miss.

So to conclude, what would you guys recommend if i want a music library that:

  1. Has preferably a subsonic API to maximise compatibility with different players
  2. Has the ability to import and reconstruct my spotify playlists
  3. Has a working song radio / instant mix feature that will not collapse as soon as you try to use it

Thank you very much!

  • KonraddoEnglish
    1•5 days ago

    Agreed that there’s no all-in-one solution to play local music and music on Spotify (if I’m a premium user). I vaguely recall there’s a solution to automate playing Spotify music and record it in real-time (since you cannot download music directly) but it seemed too troublesome, so I eventually chose spot-dl4 to download music from YouTube using Spotify playlist, then the folder got imported into Lidarr/Navidrome, then my Symfonium on Android connects to Navidrome to get the songs.

    It’s quite a bit of manual work to add songs to a separate playlist if I like something on Spotify then use spot-dl4 to do the download. At least, I successfully keep a copy of my favourite songs on my server.

      • KonraddoEnglish
        1•5 days ago

        You have to use the ‘OS’ version though, or is it my wrong understanding?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 days ago

        I’ve started using that one recently. Works kinda okish - but the UI is quite clunky and slow.

        • Norah - She/TheyEnglish
          1•5 days ago

          It does still have some issues, but it is being heavily worked on and has been for 12-18 months at this point. Has taken huge strides, and if you’re in the beta channel you’ll see lots of work being done.

    • RandomLegend [He/Him]OP
      1•5 days ago

      Oh there are tools to download from spotify directly ;) They pretend to be a player, download the songs into the offline cache and decrypt them using your login credentials.

      I can DM them if you’re interested. It’s interesting because yt music premium still only givey you 256kbit/s but spotify premium goes up to 320kbit/s