tomkatt

It’s pretty cool. I have it integrated with Lyrion so I can generate a list of related tracks to a song, album, or artist in my play queue, and with lyrics and CLAP analysis it can also generate a music queue via text prompts via phrases like “classical music with cellos” or “relaxing ambient without bass” “aggressive melodic rock” “soothing female vocals” and so on.

As a bonus, we use Wiim Pros and Pro+ units at home to integrate with Lyrion and they can be linked and synced for whole house playback across multiple audio setups.

Everything I have is either for entertainment or home automation. Most of it is running on a mini-PC running Proxmox.

• Jellyfin
• Asset UPnP
• Lyrion
• Navidrome
• LRCLIB offline lyric server
• Home Assistant

And I’ve got a containerized Audiomuse-AI instance for music analysis and instant playlist generation.

This is pretty cool, and I’m guessing the hardware doesn’t even break a sweat.

My entire setup runs on two AMD mini-PCs, one running a Ryzen 5700u with Proxmox for VM hosting, the other is a 5500u running bare metal Ubuntu.

Proxmox server hosts:

• Asset UPnP
• Jellyfin
• (formerly) Plex (I ditched it)
• Lyrion
• LRCLIB offline lyrics server (via LRCLIB DB dump)
• Home Assistant VM
• Navidrome instance

Probably a few other things I forgot about…

The bare metal Ubuntu server currently just runs Audiomuse-AI for music analysis, but when not scanning it’s generally idle. Only set this up because early versions of Audiomuse-AI didn’t play nice for me in a VM even when r running with CPU in host mode.

When the hardware gets cheaper I wouldn’t mind a full size server again with a dedicated GPU (I decommissioned my old one due to defective RAM), but for now the mini-PCs have been great. They’re quiet and absolutely sip power, so efficient and quiet.

Yo, that’s awesome!

Pro tip for you, ASR (whisper - lyric detection/transcription) can be kind of bad, but if you have some spare resources, it takes very little to host a local LRCLIB database and clone lrclib.net (they have a GitHub page). This massively speed up lyric analysis for me using the API against a local site instead of getting 429s against lrclib.net or relying on ASR.

Just finished the Live-A-Live remake last night. Highly recommend. It’s absolutely bonkers.

The inspiration for Octopath Traveler is obvious, but it’s got none of the fluff, and there’s essentially zero grinding at all until the final chapter.

I finished it in around 28 hours at a leisurely pace.

I do this with my Wiims already, no account needed. Via Squeezelite they support speaker linking and whole home playback, or just linking individual devices.

I used it for a bit, but after getting Navidrome up and running, Arpeggi replaced it as my download “away from home” client, and at home I use Lyrion or Music Assistant via Squeezelite since I have Wiims in every room of the house.

The Xeon server would be a good bet. Your other machine would be potentially bottleneck for memory. There’s a NOAVX deployment available, would be slower but should work fine. Just be sure to disable anything associated with lyric detection, it’s an absolute performance nightmare.

I ran it onaRyzen 5500u with 32 GB RAM with the standard deployment with AVX2 support and scaled up to three worker threads. For a collection of 53k tracks it was processing about 100 per hour that way with lyrics/whisper translation enabled, but once I turned that off it was doing 1300-1400 tracks per hour.

Not for me, but I could see the appeal for some.

I have Wiim Pro and Wiim Pro Pluses in every room in my house that I’d stream to, and send via Squeezelite or DLNA (with Chromecast and AirPlay as available, but IMO inferior options). Plus virtual squeezelite software allows for local PC play the same way if needed (wife uses this on her Mac Mini, I don’t generally play music on my PC, just direct via the Wiim to my amp).

TBH I don’t recommend FinAmp, but it’s an option if you only want to deal with Jellyfin.

Lyrion (LMS) and Navidrome server/clients though, absolutely. They’re great.

Even with a 4k TV, 1080p is fine. Most TVs these days will upscale 1080p and 480p content, and even if not, 4k is an exact integer scale of 1080p (3840x2160 is 2x 1920x1080)

I have a 5 TB NAS (technically 4x2 TB of SSDs in RAID5, plus float space for backups of my servers), but it’s shared for music, video, books and audiobooks, and retro game ROMs, plus other necessities (personal documents and such).

I mostly enjoy older stuff, and don’t bother with 4k. I let the TV upscale it, don’t really care. Looks like I’ve got about 1.5 TB worth of video (movies, TV, and anime) at the moment, plus another 1.4 TB of music.

Despite all of this, I haven’t completely abandoned Plex.

Plexamp remains one of the best self-hosted music applications I’ve ever used.

Lyrion, Music Assistant, and Navidrome are all solid options. And Jellyfin also supports music hosting, along with FinAmp, which has similar functionality to PlexAmp (maybe not as good, but download functionality works).

Personally, I abandoned PlexAmp. Wasn’t worth keeping with the rest and it has been downhill since the loss of Tidal integration. Navidrome clients work great, have solid radio and discovery features for large collections, and support local downloading for on the go.

And for local listening, I’d argue that Lyrion with Blissmix or LastFM “Don’t Stop the Music” plugins are as good and sometimes better than PlexAmp. And Navidrome and/or Music Assistant with AudioMuse-AI plugin utterly destroys PlexAmp’s radio/DJ functionality. Install AudioMuse, scan your library and go, it just works. Especially with recent builds having native Linux, Mac, and Windows now (I deployed with Docker compose before these options were available).

I have a Jellyfin server as backup, but its clients are shit for anything that uses subtitles. I bought plex pass years back for $80 on sale, can’t complain, but I’m never going to wholly rely on something closed source that requires online credentials.