I've been meaning to distance myself from Spotify for a while now but I've got a lot on my plate and their service has been very convenient. I've been paying for no ads since 2014 so I haven't heard the ads personally but have seen multiple sources online describe them and confirm they they haven't stopped as of today. I cancelled immediately. Not sure how many Spotify users there are on Lemmy but I just thought y'all ought to know what they're up to. Spotify let's you write a message saying why you're cancelling and I was very descriptive. Hopefully they'll back down just like Disney with Jimmy Kimmel.

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[–] leopardpuncher@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

Finally managed to have a go at a new collection, and think I ended up with a setup that isn't all that bad 😊

Lidarr (Plugin Edition).
Tubifarry plugin (so much better than my last attempt, which was with Soularr).
Tubifarry uses SLSKD as indexer and client.
Set up an extra metadata profile in Lidarr with most release formats added, for those rare occasions where I need to find something obscure for a specific artist.
When needed, I manually tag and import files. I haven't had good experiences with Beets or Picard (neither desktop nor Docker version), so for re-tagging I just use Kid3 on my Mac, accessing the music files in situ on the server. Most things go pretty smoothly, though, and I just use Lidarr for renaming files (and moving, if necessary).
I've made sure that Lidarr has access to a Bin folder, though, for those occasional times when it decides to just randomly delete something 🙄
For Navidrome, I've figured out that the best way to fix missing album art is to just add it directly to the music files through Kid3.
For persistent missing files in Navidrome, I've realised there's a 'Missing files' function when you click the profile icon (top right), and this solves a lot of the gripes I had with Navi previously.
For playback, mainly on Android, I'm using Symphonium, which seems happy as long as Navi's happy.

All in all, I think I've got everything a bit under control this time around 😊

Now I just need to remember to get the backup situation under control ... 🫣

Again, thanks for your help! ❤️