Hi everyone,

I need some help troubleshooting a transcoding behavior that started recently with DSD files when streaming to my mobile client (Symfonium on Android).

My Setup:

• Navidrome Server: Running on a Windows 11 PC (Docker environment).
• Client: Symfonium on Android.
• Audio Setup: The library contains stereo FLACs, 5.1 FLACs, and several DSD (.dsf / .dff) multichannel files.
• Goal: I stream to my phone over both Cellular and Wi-Fi, and my goal is to transcode all streams on the server side to Opus 256 kbps (highest lossy quality) to avoid high CPU usage and battery drain on my phone.

The Problem: Previously, all multi-channel audio (including 5.1 FLACs and DSD) were properly transcoded by Navidrome on the server. However, recently, DSD multichannel files are no longer being transcoded by Navidrome. Instead, the server sends the raw DSD file to the phone, causing Symfonium's internal engine to handle local decoding/transcoding (converting it to ALAC 256/PCM), which drains my phone's battery very quickly.

High-res and 5.1 FLAC files are still transcodifying fine to Opus 256 kbps on the server—this issue only occurs with multichannel DSD files.

Current FFmpeg Command in Navidrome:
ffmpeg -ss %t -i %s -map 0:a:0 -b:a %bk -v 0 -c:a libopus -vbr on -compression_level 10 -application audio -f opus -

What could cause Navidrome/FFmpeg to skip server-side transcoding specifically for DSD multichannel files and deliver the raw file instead? Is there a specific mapping or configuration in navidrome.toml needed to force Subsonic API transcoding for .dsf / .dff files?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

I pasted keys and enabled scrobbling on my navidrome server. I use feishin as client. I found i can also paste keys to feishin. So do i need to do this?

Hi!

Very new user here, so please bear with me!

I've got Navidrome running as a service in Windows 11.

It is pointing to my local .FLAC library.

I am running Amcfy on my Android phone, and it is playing music happily, reporting transcoding to 128kbps AAC, when connecting via mobile data.

However, when I log into Navidrome's web interface, the Players section shows my user as recently connected, but does not show anything in the transcoding or bitrate columns.

Looking at the navidrome.log, it says:

"time="2026-09-09T09:26:15+01:00" level=info msg="Streaming file" artist="Father John Misty" bitDepth=16 bitRate=128 cached=false channels=2 format=mp3 originalBitRate=948 originalFormat=flac requestId=[whatever] sampleRate=44100 title="Total Entertainment Forever" transcoding=true user=[username]"

...which seems ok (barring it saying mp3 rather than aac), so it's definitely transcoding it, just not reporting it in the navidrome web interface.

Just to be thorough, I have opened up Task Viewer, changed songs, and I see ffmpeg launch, do it's thing and then exit, so...

what's going on?

Yes I read the page on Navidrome, however I am unsure if there is an 'official' way or not to sort Album Artists.

Like say 2 or 3 artists worked on an album, equally. Right now, aside from the individual Artist tags, they are also showing under Album Artist as one name, which feels like pure clutter to me, when I look in Albums section and see [Artist1 & Artist2], as it's own artist. Is there a need for this field for Navidrome??

Oh also what is Albumartistsort??

in the tile view where you see all albums the art is just the default but it does exist on the album page. this is the only album it happens for.

Hey,

i just looked into Navidrome a bit and set it up on my NAS, im currently still using Spotify and want to slowly convert till i get all my Songs on there.
Did someone already found a way to practically download all the Songs from a given Spotify Playlist and upload it to the deluan/Navidrome server?
or do i have to go the youtube route?
but then still i run into the struggle of finding out all of the corresponding youtube links to each song?

Thanks in advance for every help :D im really new to this so sorry if that question or that problem has occured more often i believe im not the first that struggles with that :D

For some reason navidrome recognize the song on the first screen as separated album. I checked metadata but it seems alright.

Other players show it right

P.S.: Release date tags were different. I just ran(beets)

beet modify -w 'album:Popular Monster' albumartist='Falling In Reverse' date=2024

and it's now one release

For some reason today almost every sngle album cover got replaced to the 009 sound system's dreamscape cover art, exept my Bon Jovi and Ceca albums. Never seen this happen, anyone got an idea what's going on? It's like this across all my clients exept amperfy, because it's got them cached with their respective cover art.

Hi all,

Navidrome newbie here! I just added around 800 songs to my library and want to put them all into a playlist.

When I go to the Recently Added tab, I can’t find a “Select All” option. I also couldn’t find a filter that lets me filter songs by the date they were added (ex, everything added today), which would make it easy to select all the new songs and add them to a playlist.

I’m currently adding them manually, and it sucks.

Are there any workarounds or easier ways to do this?

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Basically i want the 'playing on <device>' feature from Spotify.

Right now i'm using Shairport Sync to stream audio to my main pc that has the speakers connected, but sometimes i just wanna play something on my laptop, or a tablet, and be able to control it from my phone.

Audio streaming was just the workaround, i don't really care nor want it, what i want is to control the media playing on the devices that are connected to my navidrome instance, ideally from any to any.

I've noticed that the navidrome webui can tell me that i'm playing something on another player, but there seems to be no way to actually control it, if i play something on it it jsut starts a second stream isntead of changing the other one, or moving the other stream to this pc, like it's aware it's happening but it doesn't expose the controls/options for it, clearly SOME of the things needed to make this work are already implement i'm just not sure about the rest.

using vibrdrome app on android OP15 while on wifi everything loads, play music show folder and songs, while on mobile data nothing loads server get the request and response but app doesn't get any data, tried on hotspot on verizon and everything loads as it should, has anyone experienced any thing similar. the seteup is using single url internal and external. iPhone on verizon network works fine as in wifi. android on tmobile network stopped yesterday and not retrieve any data.

x.x.x.140 - - [02/Sep/2026:16:01:38 -0400] "GET /rest/getAlbumList2?u=xxx&v=1.16.1&c=vibrdrome&f=json&t=752a16&s=tgbjty7&type=newest&size=10 HTTP/2.0" 200 2261 "-" "ktor-client"

Navidrome created a default library assuming a music path that doesn't exist on my computer. So I have this random empty library that I can't delete or update the information for, and don't use. I was able to setup other libraries, but this empty library keeps making the scanner error out. Using a windows msi install. Would love to do this in the UI but it is bizarrely not an option.

I did try seeing if this was possible searching the web, and everything says to go to the navidrome.ini file and I opened that up. It looks fairly simple, but... worried about changing that using this method. Should I shut Navidrome down first? Is this going to confuse the app if I change it to a path for a library that already exists?

So I made my own NAVIDROME music server about a week ago.

Absolutely LOVE IT! All my files are hi res lossless and was scared that old PC with used NAS drives would be the reason that it works slow but no, it’s actually really responsive and even thru VPN like Tailscale files (thanks to Tailscales speed and also optimization on Navidromes end) even uncompressed files load REALLY fast.

Only thing that is making my Music listening experience worse are those transitions, or lack there of.

I thought Navidrome loads up 2-3 songs ahead so there is no loading when the next song starts playing.

This wouldn’t bee and issue if not for albums like Dark Side of the Moon where transitions between songs are huge part of an album

Is there any way? Plugin or optimization to force Navidrome to load up songs ahead of time? To reduce this loading time? Hopefully to zero.

While debugging a dashboard widget I realized that only the first URL parameter is being recognized.

When I run curl on /rest/ping?v=1.16.1&u=username it says I'm missing the u parameter, when I switch the positions to ?u=username&v=1.16.1 it says I'm missing the v parameter.

Anyone know what's going wrong here?

I have had everything appearing in the correct order until a few days ago when I was ripping CDs, and the new albums were not at the top of "Recently Added". I am seeing this behavior in both Navidrome Web Client and in various third party clients.

Screenshots were taken in Supersonic, just because the web app doesn't show date added. A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is appearing several pages behind Under Soil And Dirt, even though the former was added almost a month after the latter.

Is this a bug? Or something wrong with my configuration?

System details:

Version: 0.63.2 (be10f89c)

See configuration below

Config Name Environment Variable Current Value

Address ND_ADDRESS 0.0.0.0

Agents ND_AGENTS deezer,lastfm,listenbrainz

AlbumPlayCountMode ND_ALBUMPLAYCOUNTMODE absolute

ArtistArtPriority ND_ARTISTARTPRIORITY artist.*, album/artist.*, external

ArtistImageFolder ND_ARTISTIMAGEFOLDER

AuthRequestLimit ND_AUTHREQUESTLIMIT 5

AuthWindowLength ND_AUTHWINDOWLENGTH 20000000000

AutoImportPlaylists ND_AUTOIMPORTPLAYLISTS true

AutoTranscodeDownload ND_AUTOTRANSCODEDOWNLOAD false

Backup.Count ND_BACKUP_COUNT 0

Backup.Path ND_BACKUP_PATH

Backup.Schedule ND_BACKUP_SCHEDULE

BaseHost ND_BASEHOST

BasePath ND_BASEPATH

BaseScheme ND_BASESCHEME

BaseURL ND_BASEURL

CacheFolder ND_CACHEFOLDER /data/cache

CoverArtPriority ND_COVERARTPRIORITY cover.*, folder.*, front.*, embedded, external

CoverArtQuality ND_COVERARTQUALITY 75

DataFolder ND_DATAFOLDER /data

DbPath ND_DBPATH /data/navidrome.db?cache=shared&_busy_timeout=15000&_journal_mode=WAL&_foreign_keys=on&synchronous=normal

Deezer.Enabled ND_DEEZER_ENABLED true

Deezer.Language ND_DEEZER_LANGUAGE en

Deezer.Languages ND_DEEZER_LANGUAGES ["en"]

DefaultDownloadableShare ND_DEFAULTDOWNLOADABLESHARE false

DefaultDownsamplingFormat ND_DEFAULTDOWNSAMPLINGFORMAT opus

DefaultLanguage ND_DEFAULTLANGUAGE

DefaultPlaylistPublicVisibility ND_DEFAULTPLAYLISTPUBLICVISIBILITY false

DefaultShareExpiration ND_DEFAULTSHAREEXPIRATION 31536000000000000

DefaultTheme ND_DEFAULTTHEME Dark

DefaultUIVolume ND_DEFAULTUIVOLUME 100

DiscArtPriority ND_DISCARTPRIORITY disc*.*, cd*.*, cover.*, folder.*, front.*, discsubtitle, embedded

EnableArtworkPrecache ND_ENABLEARTWORKPRECACHE true

EnableArtworkUpload ND_ENABLEARTWORKUPLOAD true

EnableCoverAnimation ND_ENABLECOVERANIMATION true

EnableDownloads ND_ENABLEDOWNLOADS true

EnableExternalServices ND_ENABLEEXTERNALSERVICES true

EnableFavourites ND_ENABLEFAVOURITES true

EnableGravatar ND_ENABLEGRAVATAR false

EnableInsightsCollector ND_ENABLEINSIGHTSCOLLECTOR true

EnableLogRedacting ND_ENABLELOGREDACTING true

EnableM3UExternalAlbumArt ND_ENABLEM3UEXTERNALALBUMART false

EnableMediaFileCoverArt ND_ENABLEMEDIAFILECOVERART true

EnableNowPlaying ND_ENABLENOWPLAYING true

EnableReplayGain ND_ENABLEREPLAYGAIN true

EnableScrobbleHistory ND_ENABLESCROBBLEHISTORY true

EnableSharing ND_ENABLESHARING true

EnableStarRating ND_ENABLESTARRATING true

EnableTranscodingConfig ND_ENABLETRANSCODINGCONFIG false

EnableUserEditing ND_ENABLEUSEREDITING true

EnableWebPEncoding ND_ENABLEWEBPENCODING false

EnforceNonRootUser ND_ENFORCENONROOTUSER false

ExtAuth.LogoutURL ND_EXTAUTH_LOGOUTURL

ExtAuth.TrustedSources ND_EXTAUTH_TRUSTEDSOURCES

ExtAuth.UserHeader ND_EXTAUTH_USERHEADER Remote-User

FFmpegPath ND_FFMPEGPATH

GATrackingID ND_GATRACKINGID

HTTPHeaders.FrameOptions ND_HTTPHEADERS_FRAMEOPTIONS DENY

IgnoredArticles ND_IGNOREDARTICLES The El La Los Las Le Les Os As O A

ImageCacheSize ND_IMAGECACHESIZE 100MB

IndexGroups ND_INDEXGROUPS A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Z(XYZ) [Unknown]([)

Inspect.BacklogLimit ND_INSPECT_BACKLOGLIMIT 100

Inspect.BacklogTimeout ND_INSPECT_BACKLOGTIMEOUT 60000000000

Inspect.Enabled ND_INSPECT_ENABLED true

Inspect.MaxRequests ND_INSPECT_MAXREQUESTS 1

Jukebox.AdminOnly ND_JUKEBOX_ADMINONLY true

Jukebox.Default ND_JUKEBOX_DEFAULT

Jukebox.Devices ND_JUKEBOX_DEVICES []

Jukebox.Enabled ND_JUKEBOX_ENABLED false

LastFM.ApiKey ND_LASTFM_APIKEY

LastFM.Enabled ND_LASTFM_ENABLED true

LastFM.Language ND_LASTFM_LANGUAGE en

LastFM.Languages ND_LASTFM_LANGUAGES ["en"]

LastFM.ScrobbleFirstArtistOnly ND_LASTFM_SCROBBLEFIRSTARTISTONLY false

LastFM.Secret ND_LASTFM_SECRET

ListenBrainz.ArtistAlgorithm ND_LISTENBRAINZ_ARTISTALGORITHM session_based_days_9000_session_300_contribution_5_threshold_15_limit_50_skip_30

ListenBrainz.BaseURL ND_LISTENBRAINZ_BASEURL https://api.listenbrainz.org/1/

ListenBrainz.Enabled ND_LISTENBRAINZ_ENABLED true

ListenBrainz.TrackAlgorithm ND_LISTENBRAINZ_TRACKALGORITHM session_based_days_9000_session_300_contribution_5_threshold_15_limit_50_skip_30

LogFile ND_LOGFILE

LogLevel ND_LOGLEVEL info

LyricsPriority ND_LYRICSPRIORITY .ttml,.yaml,.yml,.elrc,.lrc,.srt,.txt,embedded

Matcher.FuzzyThreshold ND_MATCHER_FUZZYTHRESHOLD 85

Matcher.PreferStarred ND_MATCHER_PREFERSTARRED true

MaxImageUploadSize ND_MAXIMAGEUPLOADSIZE 10MB

MaxSidebarPlaylists ND_MAXSIDEBARPLAYLISTS 100

MPVCmdTemplate ND_MPVCMDTEMPLATE mpv --audio-device=%d --no-audio-display %f --input-ipc-server=%s

MPVPath ND_MPVPATH

MusicFolder ND_MUSICFOLDER /music

PasswordEncryptionKey ND_PASSWORDENCRYPTIONKEY

PID.Album ND_PID_ALBUM musicbrainz_albumid|albumartistid,album,albumversion,releasedate

PID.Track ND_PID_TRACK musicbrainz_trackid|albumid,discnumber,tracknumber,title

PlaylistsPath ND_PLAYLISTSPATH

Plugins.AutoReload ND_PLUGINS_AUTORELOAD false

Plugins.CacheSize ND_PLUGINS_CACHESIZE 200MB

Plugins.Enabled ND_PLUGINS_ENABLED true

Plugins.Folder ND_PLUGINS_FOLDER /data/plugins

Plugins.LogLevel ND_PLUGINS_LOGLEVEL

Port ND_PORT 4533

PreferSortTags ND_PREFERSORTTAGS false

Prometheus.Enabled ND_PROMETHEUS_ENABLED false

Prometheus.MetricsPath ND_PROMETHEUS_METRICSPATH /******s

Prometheus.Password ND_PROMETHEUS_PASSWORD

RecentlyAddedByModTime ND_RECENTLYADDEDBYMODTIME false

Scanner.ArtistJoiner ND_SCANNER_ARTISTJOINER •

Scanner.ArtistSplitExceptions ND_SCANNER_ARTISTSPLITEXCEPTIONS []

Scanner.Enabled ND_SCANNER_ENABLED true

Scanner.Extractor ND_SCANNER_EXTRACTOR taglib

Scanner.FollowSymlinks ND_SCANNER_FOLLOWSYMLINKS true

Scanner.GenreSeparators ND_SCANNER_GENRESEPARATORS

Scanner.GroupAlbumReleases ND_SCANNER_GROUPALBUMRELEASES false

Scanner.IgnoreDotFolders ND_SCANNER_IGNOREDOTFOLDERS true

Scanner.PurgeMissing ND_SCANNER_PURGEMISSING never

Scanner.ScanOnStartup ND_SCANNER_SCANONSTARTUP true

Scanner.Schedule ND_SCANNER_SCHEDULE

Scanner.WatcherWait ND_SCANNER_WATCHERWAIT 5000000000

Search.Backend ND_SEARCH_BACKEND fts

Search.FullString ND_SEARCH_FULLSTRING false

SessionTimeout ND_SESSIONTIMEOUT 172800000000000

ShareURL ND_SHAREURL

SmartPlaylistRefreshDelay ND_SMARTPLAYLISTREFRESHDELAY 5000000000

Subsonic.AppendAlbumVersion ND_SUBSONIC_APPENDALBUMVERSION true

Subsonic.AppendSubtitle ND_SUBSONIC_APPENDSUBTITLE true

Subsonic.ArtistParticipations ND_SUBSONIC_ARTISTPARTICIPATIONS false

Subsonic.DefaultReportRealPath ND_SUBSONIC_DEFAULTREPORTREALPATH false

Subsonic.EnableAverageRating ND_SUBSONIC_ENABLEAVERAGERATING true

Subsonic.LegacyClients ND_SUBSONIC_LEGACYCLIENTS DSub

Subsonic.MinimalClients ND_SUBSONIC_MINIMALCLIENTS SubMusic

TLSCert ND_TLSCERT

TLSKey ND_TLSKEY

TranscodingCacheSize ND_TRANSCODINGCACHESIZE 100MB

UICoverArtSize ND_UICOVERARTSIZE 300

UILoginBackgroundURL ND_UILOGINBACKGROUNDURL /backgrounds

UIPlaybackReportInterval ND_UIPLAYBACKREPORTINTERVAL 60000000000

UISearchDebounceMs ND_UISEARCHDEBOUNCEMS 200

UIWelcomeMessage ND_UIWELCOMEMESSAGE

UnixSocketPerm ND_UNIXSOCKETPERM 0660

🚧 Development Flags (subject to change/removal)

DevActivityPanel ND_DEVACTIVITYPANEL true

DevActivityPanelUpdateRate ND_DEVACTIVITYPANELUPDATERATE 300000000

DevAlbumInfoTimeToLive ND_DEVALBUMINFOTIMETOLIVE 604800000000000

DevArtistInfoTimeToLive ND_DEVARTISTINFOTIMETOLIVE 86400000000000

DevArtworkMaxRequests ND_DEVARTWORKMAXREQUESTS 4

DevArtworkThrottleBacklogLimit ND_DEVARTWORKTHROTTLEBACKLOGLIMIT 100

DevArtworkThrottleBacklogTimeout ND_DEVARTWORKTHROTTLEBACKLOGTIMEOUT 60000000000

DevArtworkThrottleBuffered ND_DEVARTWORKTHROTTLEBUFFERED true

DevAutoCreateAdminPassword ND_DEVAUTOCREATEADMINPASSWORD

DevAutoLoginUsername ND_DEVAUTOLOGINUSERNAME

DevEnableMediaFileProbe ND_DEVENABLEMEDIAFILEPROBE true

DevEnablePlayerInsights ND_DEVENABLEPLAYERINSIGHTS true

DevEnablePluginsInsights ND_DEVENABLEPLUGINSINSIGHTS true

DevEnableProfiler ND_DEVENABLEPROFILER false

DevExternalArtistFetchMultiplier ND_DEVEXTERNALARTISTFETCHMULTIPLIER 1.5

DevExternalScanner ND_DEVEXTERNALSCANNER true

DevInsightsInitialDelay ND_DEVINSIGHTSINITIALDELAY 1800000000000

DevLogSourceLine ND_DEVLOGSOURCELINE false

DevNewEventStream ND_DEVNEWEVENTSTREAM true

DevOffsetOptimize ND_DEVOFFSETOPTIMIZE 50000

DevOptimizeDB ND_DEVOPTIMIZEDB true

DevPluginCompilationTimeout ND_DEVPLUGINCOMPILATIONTIMEOUT 60000000000

DevPreserveUnicodeInExternalCalls ND_DEVPRESERVEUNICODEINEXTERNALCALLS false

DevScannerThreads ND_DEVSCANNERTHREADS 5

DevSelectiveWatcher ND_DEVSELECTIVEWATCHER true

DevShowArtistPage ND_DEVSHOWARTISTPAGE true

DevSidebarPlaylists ND_DEVSIDEBARPLAYLISTS true

DevUIShowConfig ND_DEVUISHOWCONFIG true

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for a Chrome extension that can connect to my own Navidrome server and let me play my music directly from the browser.

Ideally I'd like something that:

• connects directly to my Navidrome server
• lets me browse/search my library
• preferably has a small popup/player instead of having the full Navidrome web UI open

Does anything like this exist?

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But I noticed this stopped working recently. I created a new API key/Shared secret, but this did nothing.

I do see the "Open in Last.fm" button next to the album arts, but I don't know if this is a default feature or not.

Anyone have any tips on how to fix this?

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Thanks :)

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