Spotify now sells printed booksThe partnership with Bookshop.org is rolling out to Spotify users in the US and UK.
Navidrome doesn't sell printed books but we also don't sell your data or lock your music listening experience so... pros and cons 🤷
With Navidrome, you're in control: don't like AI? Navidrome ships free of AI features. You do want AI? Add it in, it's up to you.
For example, there's AudioMuse-AI, which brings automatic playlist generation to your self-hosted music library--including Navidrome!
neptunehub.github.io/AudioMuse-AI/
Good overview of the pros and cons of self-hosting.
Self-hosting is not for everyone, but if you have the technical capacity and the time, the benefits--control, autonomy, and privacy--make it totally worth it!
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- The Plugin System continues to mature with new host services for HTTP requests, persistent task queues, lyrics providers, and key-value storage with TTL support, giving plugin developers more tools to build powerful integrations.
Full changelog: github.com/navidrome/na...
5/5
- Transcoding is now fully server-managed: Navidrome detects client codecs, applies format-aware bitrate defaults, and implements the OpenSubsonic Transcoding extension, so clients no longer need to guess what format to request.
4/5
- Search has been completely rebuilt on top of SQLite FTS5 with two-phase BM25 ranking, delivering faster and more accurate results across your entire library.
3/5
You can now upload custom artwork for playlists, artists, and internet radios directly from the UI, and multi-disc albums will automatically pick up disc-specific cover images.
2/5
🚀 Navidrome version 0.61 🚀
Major updates:
- Artwork overhaul: per-disc cover art, artist image uploads, animated image preservation, and a faster image pipeline powered by WebP encoding.
1/5
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