Finally managed to have a go at a new collection, and think I ended up with a setup that isn’t all that bad 😊

• Lidarr (Plugin Edition).
• Tubifarry plugin (so much better than my last attempt, which was with Soularr).
• Tubifarry uses SLSKD as indexer and client.
• Set up an extra metadata profile in Lidarr with most release formats added, for those rare occasions where I need to find something obscure for a specific artist.
• When needed, I manually tag and import files. I haven’t had good experiences with Beets or Picard (neither desktop nor Docker version), so for re-tagging I just use Kid3 on my Mac, accessing the music files in situ on the server. Most things go pretty smoothly, though, and I just use Lidarr for renaming files (and moving, if necessary).
• I’ve made sure that Lidarr has access to a Bin folder, though, for those occasional times when it decides to just randomly delete something 🙄
• For Navidrome, I’ve figured out that the best way to fix missing album art is to just add it directly to the music files through Kid3.
• For persistent missing files in Navidrome, I’ve realised there’s a ‘Missing files’ function when you click the profile icon (top right), and this solves a lot of the gripes I had with Navi previously.
• For playback, mainly on Android, I’m using Symphonium, which seems happy as long as Navi’s happy.

All in all, I think I’ve got everything a bit under control this time around 😊

Now I just need to remember to get the backup situation under control … 🫣

Again, thanks for your help! ❤️