> Navidrome does not support browsing by folders, but simulates it based on the tags with a structure like: /AlbumArtist/Album/01-Song.ext
I don't think I have seen this tag simulation when I tried it around 2 years ago. But in any case, is this good enough? And does it recognize artists and songs from MusicBrainz like Jelly does flowlessly?
I don't know what you mean by "recognizing songs from musicbrainz", I've never used jellyfin to be able to compare. In my case, all files are tagged outside Navidrome.
All my players allow browsing by either Album Artist, Artist or Album. My folder layout follows this principle, so I'm happy with that.
But I can imagine layouts which don't adhere to this (classical music comes to mind), in which case I can see how not being able to get to the folders can be annoying.
Recognizing from MB is this: you have title1.mp3 and you can use MB fingerprint to detect song/album. Or song simply has subset of tags and MB fills up the rest, along with the links to MB details of artist/album where you can get tiny little details.
Discogs is a bit better in that, but its proprietary, so no.
I am more proficient with folders and have the number of tools to do so. Any GUI that streaming servers present is very unusable for me, I use it only for major happy case. Anything more advanced, I drop to the file system.
For Musicbrainz I use beets to import/organise the songs into my library directory structure.
For stuff not on mb I use fb2k as it has a fairly decent tagger and move it to the local external drive, which is synced to the server.
At home I usually just use fb2k to play to my sound system via an interface, and on the go I use play:Sub connected to the navidrome instance transcoded to 160k OPUS (initially over tailscale but now via portforward/cloudflare and soon cloudflare tunnel)
I use FB2k with picard and MB. If its not in the MB, I add it myself. With bookmarklests and picard this is very fast process.
Beets is too much work. I don't always have shell around nor I want to remote for this. This thing I use works on whatever machine I am currently.
I use jelly for convenience to connect to my media server when I am not at home. At home, I always use foobar2k which simply rocks for precise search and randomly generated lists (I even use SQL for this, via plugin). Its playing capabilities are far from any jelly like streaming server. Jelly is very bad at non-typical case, you can't even share a link to the current playlist and if left alone, after a day or two I have to reload jelly home page and go from there again, as anything that was left in the browser for a couple of days stops working until I reload from home.
I used to add stuff to MB but it's a bit involved as a process and honestly I'm too lazy a lot of the time. Picard is fine as a GUI tagger but I like foo.
If I can't pick what to listen to I quite like radiooooo, Radio Paradise, Radio Meuh, etc.
