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Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music
maniacs
I've been working on this alternative for Plex for almost 3 years
now. It's main selling point is that it correctly handles multiple
versions of albums and songs. As of today, it only has a web
client. It tries to be as flexible as possible, but still requires
a bit of configuration (including regexes, but if metadata is
embedded into the files, it can be skipped). I just released v3.0,
making videos first-class data, and scanning + metadata matching
faster.
Author : arti_chaud
Score : 50 points
Date : 2025-01-28 08:31 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| zoriya wrote:
| This project deserves to be more known!
| Octopus773 wrote:
| Great project ! It even works on Gnome Web this is quite a feat
| russelg wrote:
| How's the support for the Album Artist tag? This is a common
| paint point I have with every single self-hosted solution,
| shockingly I've found Jellyfin to handle it the best so far.
|
| Use case: Japanese doujin (basically label compilation) albums.
| arti_chaud wrote:
| I'm not sure if I understood your question, so here's a quick
| brief on how I handle this:
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| If the tag (from the path or the embedded metadata) is
| 'Compilation' or any other string specified in the settings,
| the album will have no main artist. Such albums cannot be
| grouped by series or sth (although that would be a great idea
| for version 4.0).
|
| As of today, on the web app, there is no page that lists all
| 'compilation' albums.
|
| Does it answer your question?
| retrodaredevil wrote:
| As a Plex and Plexamp user, I'm curious about a few features:
| mobile support doesn't seem to be mentioned. Is there a mobile
| app? Are smart playlists a feature? What about gapless playback?
| Can you elaborate on the 5 star system for rating tracks, albums
| and artists?
|
| Overall the feature set really speaks to me, as I have a bunch of
| CD rips tagged using MusicBrainz Picard with a couple of deluxe
| and non-deluxe versions thrown in of the same album. I think I'll
| have to give it a try either way because you're touching on a
| niche Plex just doesn't seem to care about.
| arti_chaud wrote:
| Glad you find Meelo interesting! Thanks
|
| As of today, there are no plans for a mobile app (I've thought
| about it a couple of times, but I don't have the bandwidth for
| that atm).
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| No smart playlists, just a simple playlist system. No gapless
| playback either.
|
| There is no ratin system either (I hardly use this feature
| myself on other platforms, so it is not part of the roadmap
| (yet?)).
|
| The only 'ratings' are for albums, and are scrapped from
| websites like Metacritic or AllMusic.
| CableNinja wrote:
| If you could implement the OpenSubsonicAPI, you could solve
| the mobile issue easy, and dont even have to build a mobile
| app
| Maskawanian wrote:
| Looks very nice, however it doesn't seem to support subsonic yet,
| which means no Android Auto integration through Ultrasonic.
|
| I'm going to keep watch on this, there aren't many music players
| with interfaces that look that nice.
| svilen_dobrev wrote:
| how about keyboard shortcuts? various remote controls? search?
| arti_chaud wrote:
| There are a few/simple keyboard shortcuts (open/close the
| player, go to search, go to settings...)
|
| There is a search page, backed by Meilisearch. You can search
| artists, albums, songs and videos. You can even search songs by
| lyrics.
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