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Only windows devices (laptop I use for work stuff). The other laptops are Linux (NFS) or Chromebooks (for the kids, no access).

Devices don’t really leave often (aside from mine), so not much of an issue. If the NAS is offline, not much else would be going on either.

I’m at the same age - just to mention, samba is nowhere near the horror show it used to be. That said, I use NFS for my Debian boxes and mac mini build box to hit my NAS, samba for the windows laptop.

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Entirely possible, I know they have commented before on not wanting to do it.

Which I kind of get if you’re parsing metadata, you’d have to create a whole new method for parse and view which can be a pain. Though I’d hardly call it evil myself since its how I sort too.

I’d agree on having to think and duplicates are possible, but that’s possible in so many scenarios.

shrug

Either way metadata I think is important, but ive been a pain about metadata since the 90s (because burning CDs and having the actual track info was awesome).

Who called it evil?

I was wondering because all I do is /artist/album/, which is going to be the same logical appearance in navidrome as at would be from a dir structured view so couldn’t understand the point.

The difference is the metadata, which I’m much more strict on so I haven’t seen these sorts of problems.

Personally I just run both.

Navidrome is what I would call the daily driver, but since its just a share that JF can also see, for TV playback its JF just like you.

But I’m also a stickler for metadata so I don’t often run into issues. When I do see something come up thats not right, I correct manually. Which wasn’t happening very often until lidarr had the metadata issue with musicbrainz, though the past few months its been a manual effort.

Ah, I write the metadata on import in lidarr, so kind of a non-issue for me.

Filter by genre tag to make the finding part easier?

Just curious, why folder structure? Are your directories not artist/album?

Navidrome

Thats wildly cool… I’m checking it out tomorrow!

shrug or they want to use it as a private server, couldn’t tell you.

Just pointing to the server source as you can run the server self hosted.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Just used it to import a recipe, tweak it, and then I made it. Big fan of mealie.

I bet it would do a decent job of parsing those text files.

As the owner of a CD burner so old there was no speed to note, and later upgraded to a 4x burner…

I’m also quite old it seems.

Edited to add: I bought it at a computer show. The kind that you showed up to in person and paid like $5 to get into. I also bought a used laser 128.

Same, homarr is decent but I prefer my configs, quick edits from whatever device is in hand, easy peasy.

The biggest pain is that its apple silicon, which limits what’s built for it.

Depending on what its doing, you may need to build dependencies from source. You also may have to use some mac-specific tools to download pre-builts and to do builds.

In some cases, it may be better to run a VM with Linux and forge on ahead, but its really going to depend on what tasks the server is handling.

Hey now, thats not fair…

My chair is black, too.

Oh gotcha

Same answer though, none of them by me do that anymore, I guess they all disabled the scale here. I can just rapid fire scan and out the door.

I didnt realize places still did that, I haven’t heard that annoying line in a few years.