cross-posted from: https://piefed.zeromedia.vip/c/selfhosting/p/451238/1-year-into-navidrome-with-dilligent-tagging-and-rating-and-this-is-how-someone

forgive the tyos, english is absolutely my first language but we strugglin over here, ya feel? or, take it as confirmation this ain’t some damn clanker bullshit

It’s just like holy shit! this is what I’ve wanted my music to do my whole life! This is almost just another member of the family.

Feishin and the smart playlists really really shine when adding user ratings into the mix. plus, adding a “mood” tag and then being able to use our own terms, it is incredible.

Build a custom station with the tags you want, then add “not played in the last <blank> days” (depending on how much traffic/supply of that particular kind of music gets) and it keeps it fresh. Add in “rating is not 1” and you’ll see the stuff that hasn’t been rated yet, but it won’t even let 1 start tracks into the queue!

I have rediscovered old favorites, found new songs by classic artists, have perfectly curated playlists down to the nth degree, custom stations that show me exactly what i want before i even knew i wanted to listen to that right then, all without commercials, on every device i own.

i am pumped for the future of the open subsonic API’s! I think a skipped count could be awesome. I’d like to automate some stuff based off skip counts.

the navidrome plugins are getting some inertia, i am excited to see where that goes.

Other Navidrome/opensubsonic users, how do you guys use the 5 stars? for me it is

  • 5 amazing song, not only will i 99% of the time never skip it, i will try to get everyone’s attention and have them listen
  • 4 i really like this song and have stopped what i am doing to pay attention to it, it is not likely but may get skipped depending on the mood/genre desired at that time
  • 3 - this song is good and i notice it and smile while continuing doing my thing, unless it is the wrong mood/genre (can i blast it while working?), which means it gets skipped.
  • 2 - this song is unobtrusive and doesn’t appear to bother or inspire me.
  • 1 this song catches my attention due to disliking it. I will go out of my way to stop it from playing. i set up my stations to never call for those again.

I am looking for other ways to interface with this to be able to rate songs a little easier/safer (while driving?)

I am hopeful i will have the wiggle room to donate to navidrome, feishin, snapcast, mopidy, spindle, soon!!!

  • Noggog@programming.devEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Star ratings and smart playlists! Oh my! I love this stuff. Im currently using plex, which allows for half stars since im a masochist

    I dont know that I need the full ten options, but 5 wasn’t quite enough for me. If there was like 7 star system id do that, hah.

    • 0.5 - I would delete if other people weren’t listening to the library. Never play again
    • 1 - on my shitlist. Unless something changes, will probably go to 0.5 stars the next time I hear it.
    • 1.5 to 2 - Not opposed, but forgettable or slightly not my style
    • 2.5 - average content. Not memorable but fine
    • 3 - solid content, still not memorable
    • 3.5 - the good stuff. I’ll put it on a solo car ride and generally not skip
    • 4 - Amazing songs. If I was to put a Playlist on for other people and not worry about it
    • 4.5 - Favorite songs. Maybe a fault or two but will still stay with me for a lifetime
    • 5 - Id play these for anyone without hesitation and then look at them and say “was that not perfection?!”

    For smart playlists:

    • playlists by star rating
      • alts for excluding facemelting stuff to play in public
    • Car ride - 3.5 stars and up + havent heard in a month
    • “Frontier” playlist. Only play things i havent heard in a year that aren’t 0.5 stars

    I generally listen to my frontier Playlist and try to rate as I go. Other playlists for when im listening but busy and just want the good stuff.

    I havent found a good way to tag on the go, unfortunately. Maybe someday

      • Noggog@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago
        • havent figured out how to rate well when driving. Definitely a PITA.
        • i considered skipped counts a bit, but ultimately felt it would end up hiding songs that were good but required me to be in a specific mood to appreciate. I wanted to be the judge of if something was good and feel free to skip good things when I felt like it.
        • another thing my suite was missing was the new music discovery story. Made a personal app myself to fill that gap, but would love to see a more robust community solution someday. Maybe ill give it a proper dev pass someday and publish