This is a post about the whole path it took me to get from the old days of Google Music to Navidrome, and some views on the topic. Maybe this is something that interest you, in this case give a read.
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I fell through a similar rabbit hole going from YouTube -> Spotify -> light sailing -> YouTube -> Spotify -> Nextcloud + Navidrome
I followed a pretty similar route to what you’ve outlined! After my discovery stints on YouTube I stumbled into premium spotify, once premium was ending I converted my entire 2.6k songs from Spotify to local copies. Setting up nextcloud and adding the nc-music plugin, with Symphonium as an android client fixed my Spotify niche quite nicely. I’ve rediscovered bandcamp again recently and can’t wait to start actually purchasing and owning music I enjoy.
I think its also interesting to ponder ones own rules for what you’d consider ethical consumption.
Today is bandcamp Friday!
My only wishlist for Navidrome is SSO support besides reverse-proxy/forward-auth headers. I’ve got that setup with Authentik and Nginx Proxy Manager, but having to make specific path exceptions or duplicates with rewrites for apps/API, rather than just being able to generate an app password/token in Navidrome for an app to use, definitely is annoying. I don’t think I saw a write-up anywhere but I figured out what was needed.
Man I eventually stopped fighting that hurdle and just changed the login screen to say “Broken-ass auth” so I remember that one is different. I’m the only person using it at my house and recently went back to a car with a CD player and USB port for infotainment (such a refreshing change after a decade and a half of screens in my face) so I haven’t bothered to go back to fix it.
