Navidrome over wireguard, and music library in folders and proper tagging trough beets and picard. using subsonic as a client for it. tried plex and plexamp but I’m moving away from them.

Plex w/ plexamp Jellyfin w/finamp

Thats what I would go with but theres tons of options here as well

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#media-streaming---audio-streaming

People will recommend Navidrome- but if you’re like me then your music collection is organized by folders and not metadata. Navidrome does not and will never (developer said as much) support folder-based browsing.

I recommend using Gonic https://github.com/sentriz/gonic and then a compatible Subsonic client. Gonic has been the simplest and smoothest out-of-house music streaming experience for me.

Another very fast and folder based system would be mStream: https://mstream.io/

It works very well, also good mobile apps (Android + iOS)

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I think you’re on the right track with Wireguard.

I’m also running Jellyfin, but mostly Navidrome for music. I’ve been pretty satisfied with the latter.

Consuming music outside the house has been a significant issue. I mostly tried to go the offline route: download some music to play while you’re out of the house … and on Android the experience has been overall very poor. My least worst experience was with Substreamer as a client, but still not anywhere near good.

Where I’m at today is with always-on VPN through Wireguard and the experience is significantly better than any other solution I’ve tried before.

It’s been years I haven’t played with mpd, so I can’t comment on that.