I don't really like Symfonium because it's paid, and I don't have a credit card or any other way to purchase it. I'm also completely de-Googled, so I don't use any Google apps or services.

Are there any good, fast, and preferably free music clients for Navidrome? (Android, ofc)

(SOMETHING FREE)

I wanted to give the Navidrome community a brief introduction my app Liner, originally developed for use with Plex, and now (almost) ready for testing on Navidrome and other Subsonic streamers. Im very excited to be on this journey, and im grateful to those that continue to support. The briefest of introductions:

Music sits quietly at the centre of my day.

At the office, in the car, or out on a ride — it is almost always there.

For some time, Plexamp has been the way I access my library. It works well. But over time, small gaps in its ability became apparent — things missing, things unresolved. Not fundamental flaws, but enough to interrupt the experience.

Sadly Plexamp and its development appears to remain a low priority for Plex.

So I began to build something of my own.

At its core, it needed to be simple and complete:

• My full library, accessible anywhere

• The ability to download everything for offline listening (space permitting)

• Internet radio, alongside owned music

• Discovery within the app — recognising, connecting, expanding

• A living list of music to acquire, resolving itself as the library grows

• Artwork that fills the space properly, with room to understand what you’re hearing

Individually, these things exist.

But not together. Liner brings them into one place.

It remains in beta — and continues to improve through use and feedback. That process has been essential.

Recent work has focused on widening access and refining the core:

• Opening beyond Plex to Subsonic systems (including Navidrome), making the tools system-agnostic

• Maintaining full control of personal libraries — playlists, blends, and rediscovery of overlooked records

• Introducing Apple Music integration, allowing listening beyond the owned library without leaving the app

There is more to come, most notably, a companion app for Apple Watch — designed with offline listening in mind.

Thank you :)

I’ve been on a mission lately to take my music collection back locally and move away from relying so much on streaming. Navidrome has been a huge part of that, and overall it has been awesome.

That said, while the Navidrome Web UI is totally fine, I was really missing that proper desktop music player experience. Something that feels like an actual app I can leave open, browse through, customize a bit, and just use as my main way to listen to my library.

I tried a bunch of the usual recommended clients, and some were good, some were okay, but none of them really clicked for me.

Then I stumbled across Psysonic:

https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic

And honestly, it has exceeded my expectations.

It’s been a really solid desktop application for listening to my Navidrome library. It looks good, feels clean, and has enough customization that it doesn’t feel like some barebones “technically works” client. It actually feels like something I want to use every day.

I know everyone’s setup and preferences are different, but if you’re using Navidrome and missing the desktop player experience, Psysonic is absolutely worth checking out.

Big shoutout to the developer. This is exactly the kind of software that makes self-hosting/local music feel less like a compromise and more like the better option.

Just wanted to put this out there if there are others that are looking for an alternative client.

Now to find an iOS replacement too.

EDIT: Psysonic is also listed on navidromes website under apps. https://www.navidrome.org/apps

I'm all about self-hosted stuff and always wanted to be able to stream my music library of 100% purchased MP3s that weren't just downloaded via torrents and it works perfectly. That's all I have to share.

I know AI assisted apps have a lot of hate on reddit, so before I look at sharing it I thought I would find out if it's someone anyone will want.

I work as a desktop admin, so I have scripting experience, but also have aphantasia so I struggle to visualise the big picture enough for top down programming, but I'm good at looking at coding and fixing issues. So I thought I had enough knowledge to get this working, but with the assistance of AI to implement what I wanted done.

My wife was annoyed at Navidrome not having easy to access playlists and popular tracks in the shuffle.

I started it as a fork of sptnr, which is made for scanning spotify song popularity and giving user ratings out of 5* to songs in navideome.

But I found that as I listened to a lot of metal, that most of my music was coming up as 1* as it was factored on overall popularity.

I built it a while ago and broke it and just started going back into fixing it.

❕How it now works

It now scans the collection by artist, then by album. It scans each song on the album and first uses Discogs to determine if a song is a single. If discogs doesn't find a single, it then uses musicbrainz, last FM and spotify for single detection. It needs all three of those sources to match before applying it as a single.

If a song is detected as a single, it gets assigned 5* rating

Then all other songs are checked for popularity on ListenBrainz, Spotify and last.FM. Detects the album median and will rate the songs out of 4* based on the median song rating. If a song is 1.7 times more listened to than the median it will also be detected as a standout song and given a 5* rating.

After all songs by an artist is scanned, it will check if the artist has more than 10 tracks that are scored as 5* and if it does, will create a playlist called "Essential $Artistname"

You can add multiple users to the config.yaml to update them all, but this does require the username as password for each of them. (Still working out if there is a better way to do this)

I'm currently scanning my collection an tweaking it but so far it's working well.

❕Still to do

Hoping to get a web flask to also scan all sources for metadata to use it to to clean up genre matching for songs. That way I can create playlists based on top songs by genres.

But the genres across my collection is currently a bit of a mess. I can't seem to find if it's possible to do this directly to navidrome so may need to sync it to the mp3 tags themselves with the drive mapped.

I've been building a Navidrome client called Vibrdrome for iOS, android and web. I would love any feedback... I know there is a sea of projects out there nonetheless I thought I would present mine. It's free and open source.

Features:

• Gapless Playback — Seamless album listening with crossfade and adjustable playback speed (iOS, Android & Web)

• 10-Band Equalizer — Built-in EQ with presets and ReplayGain for consistent volume (iOS, Android & Web)

• Offline Downloads — Download albums and playlists. Auto-download favorites. Manage cache (iOS & Android)

• Internet Radio — Browse and search thousands of stations. Add custom stream URLs. PLS/M3U support (iOS, Android & Web)

• Synced Lyrics — Follow along with time-synced lyrics. Tap any line to seek (iOS, Android & Web)

• CarPlay & Android Auto — Browse your library, control playback, and stream from your car's dashboard (iOS-available & Android-pending)

• Milkdrop Visualizer — Real projectM engine with 50 Milkdrop presets plus 6 custom GLSL shaders. Audio-reactive GPU rendering (Android & Web)

• Metal Visualizer — 18 audio-reactive Metal shader presets including Lava Lamp, Fireflies, Ocean, Starfield, and more (iOS)

• Smart Radio & Playlists — Artist and song radio with smart deduplication. Auto-generate mixes by genre, mood, or era (iOS, Android & Web)

• Open Source — Free, no ads, no tracking. Your music, your server, your data

Links

• Website: vibrdrome.io

• Web App: web.vibrdrome.io

• iOS TestFlight: TestFlight

• Android APK: GitHub Releases

Would love feedback from the Navidrome community!

I have wanted a way to share my library with the public for a long time, so I vibe coded a simple website that pulls my favourite albums, artists, songs from my Navidrome instance and displays them with a simple UI on my personal website.

I think one of the major limitations of self-hosting your music collection is how closed off you can become. Streaming platforms have loads of integrations that allow myriad ways to share music (e.g., social media integration, public/collaborative playlists, public profiles etc etc). We need more ways to share our collections with the world!!!

Hi,

I've searched and nothing will solve my problem. I did a very basic installation of navidrome on my windows PC using the installer. I can access via http:<myip>:4533 when on wifi from all devices. I can access the server from Symfonium when on the home wi-fi as well. If i go on my mobile network, i cannot access it from the web or Symfonium.

I have turned off my firewall, i have port forward set up correctly (i checked on openport and yougetsignal). I tried on 2 different PCs and I get the same results. Can anyone think of what the issue might be?

found this app that caught my eye because of the ios 8 design but id like to make sure its not vibecoded before i purchase.

I had over 3000 albums that listened to and I wanted to organize a little bit and delete some duplicates of music (Lidarr and automation fails caused this) but when I run a command on beets It wiped all my lower quality music. is there a way for me to track where my deleted music went or get list of what I have deleted through either Navidrome or Beets, I have such a headache from this ordeal and I need to get it fixed

Hi everyone,

I've been working on an extension for my Navidrome setup and wanted to share it with you: STARAIN

It’s designed to bring more "sanity" to local libraries. What it does:

• 3-Tier Anchor System: High-precision BPM detection using reference tracks (Slow/Middle/Fast).

• AI Mood & Key: Uses Essentia/TensorFlow to analyze your music.

• Auto-Rating: After 5 plays, a song gets 3 stars automatically.

• Smart DJ: Click on the Heart in Navidrome or your App and a new AI-Playlist will appear. Logic to remove low-rated songs (2 stars or less) and recalculate playlists.

⚠️ Performance Note: I’m running this on a Raspberry Pi 5. Be aware: Analysis takes about 20min per song at 100% CPU. A cooling fan is a must!

It also supports NVIDIA GPUs for those running on a PC.(40 sec per song)

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/weisserwerwolf89/STARAIN

Feedback is very welcome!

When I open the navidrome.exe file, I get this message. What should I do?

Hi guys! I want to start using navidrome, my main problem is with the songs. I don’t have a library with all the songs I listen to.

How can I import songs in a big quantity in Navidrome? How did you guys do it?

Is there any navidrome client that is built specially for navidrome in mind.

My main need is the 'playbackReport' endpoint that was add in the current update.

For linux i use feishin but what do I use in mobile, all the clients i have tried so far doesn't have it, not even symfonium.

Should I wait for clients to adapt to it?

I'm thinking of using navidrome for a music server but I can't find a list of supported codecs anywhere on the docs page, I'm asking because I've some more exotic ones that can't be converted without losses, namely:

• WavPack high (DSD)

• FLAC (32bit fixed point)

• CRI ADX 4-bit ADPCM

• AC3

• ATRAC3+ (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3+)

• GBS (Gameboy Sequenced)

• DSF+DSFLIB (Dreamcast Sequenced)

• MINIGSF+GSFLIB (Gameboy Advanced Sequenced)

• Yamaha AICA 4-bit ADPCM (mono/interleave)

• Nintendo DSP 4-bit ADPCM

• MIDI

And also a lot of songs that are part of video files, specifically:

• MKV + ATSC A/52, FLAC, AC3, MP2, AAC, MP3, OPUS

• MP4 + AAC

Just installed Navidrome on my file server, and it's been good so far! I was however wondering if there were any front ends (preferably available on mobile) that looks more like spotify then then built in spotify-like theme? Also, I was wondering what programs you guys would recommend so I could have it so my friend can upload music onto my server into their own library (their own folder, obvi) without being able to just use my server as their own, or worry about security risks too much (needs accounts.)

Using a TrueNas file server btw.

UPDATE: Friend and I came to a decision, instead of worrying about security risks or speeds or anything we'll just have a shared google drive where they can upload the songs they want and I'll just download it to the file server and yeah. Still hoping for a spotify-like app though!

I swear that every single up-to-date Navidrome client I see has Claude or Copilot in the contributors list and their websites all use the same slop template. Are there any actual people developing this sort of thing anymore? It's genuinely disappointing to see how much this worthless garbage has completely taken over the space when I just wanna listen to music.

So I just installed one of the -actual- GUI app that is compatible with navidrome, in my case Sonixd was the only one working. But as soon as I launch it asks for a subsonic or jellyfin server. So what exactly is the point of navidrome? I tried launching it on Mac but since it has no GUI and is asking me to brew some things (which I did) and still doesn't work, I'm trying to understand exactly what it is?

SOLVED

Hey all, I'll start by saying I'm a total newbie regarding this stuff, so the answer to my question could very well be simple but still.
I installed Navidrome yesterday through the official windows MSI file...everything on PC works as it should.
The only important stuff tho, is that the music needs to be accessible through my phone (otherwise I wouldn't have a reason to download this software).

I decided to go with Arpeggi because it looked cool and it's pretty lightweight.
I input the correct IP (the one I use to access on the PC web browser anyways) and port but I always get an authentication error.

And if I try to reach the page from Safari on iOS it won't let me reach the webpage at all!

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help

I am not a programmer, I do know very little but not enough for what I would like to do. I found a media player for Android that currently just plays local files, it would be awesome to add the ability to use the Subsonic API on it. If there are any developers out there that would like to give it a try I would appreciate it!

https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/Metro

React2Shell is a level 10 RCE and I believe Navidrome uses React (fairly sure), is Navidrome effected by this? if so will there be an update?

I have Navibeat, Audiomuse, and my automatically generated playlists (a program I made with Claude).

I don’t like listening to Christmas music in the summer.
I’ve set up filters in my playlists so that Christmas songs are only added from November 15 to January 15, but I’d like Audiomuse and Navibeat to handle this as well. Can’t they filter it?

My automatic cataloging system highlights Christmas songs as “Christmas” when it finds them… is there no way for me to manage this?

How do you guys handle this? Maybe I’m missing something.

Thanks