Offline hours? Is that something that happens often enough to need a work around?

Kinda? My bare bones initial self hosted media streaming setup was put together by my partner. It’s no longer bare bones, because I’ve since upgraded it, added new functionality and I keep it going.

I use digikam with sidecar files on my main photo editing PC.

We sync this directory with a media server on the local network that enables all of the local devices to access the photos and tags. In theory, it means we could run digikam on another device as well, and sync data between them via updates to the sidecar files, but in practice, we don’t do this and the media server is effectively read only.

Then, we sync the media server images with a photoprism instance that we have running on external hosting. Photoprism recognises the keywords and sidecar data from digikam, which lets me search and access the images from anywhere.

“Has a future” in this context means “Streaming media without explicit ownership rights will continue to be here/relevant in to the future, unlike the idea of ‘owning’ digital media”

Old Intel NUC running external drives via USB C is exactly our setup. Jellyfin + Navidrome and other misc stuff

I was hoping there was something else out there at the moment, but if there isn’t, it’s really good news that it’s coming to Navidrome. I’ll be patient :)

Yep, I use Symfonium too, and it does exactly what I need, but only on Android! I’m looking for something to drive the music at home too, which means I need either a windows client, or a linux client with a web enabled GUI.

I tried Musicbee, but I couldn’t get the subsonic plugin to show the music in the Musicbee library. It exposed the music files, but none of the metadata I used to build my playlists from. If I could get Musicbee pulling ratings and last played information over the subsonic API, it would be perfect!