Trying to ditch YouTube Music & Spotify for self-hosted music has been a struggle. I’ve subscribed to YT Premium today.

Here’s how my attempts have gone:

• Nextcloud Music (with Recognize): The web UI is great, has all the features I need. Downside: no transcoding and playback through Subsonic or Ampache clients is slow, sometimes causing server issues.

• Jellyfin: Streaming works fine, but it doesn’t recognize individual artists (my files are in one big folder, so albums are jumbled).

• Navidrome: Similar to Jellyfin, artist recognition is off and playback isn’t as smooth.

I’ll try Plexamp next. What else should I try?

All of my songs are stored in NextCloud.