Identifies, indexes, and manages music files, and exposes them for playback via the Music Server Protocol.

Difference from Music Player Daemon: the playback occurs on the client, not the server

Differences from Navidrome: no built-in web interface; supports editing of tags.

Differences from Subsonic API: supports tag editing; has a concept of permissions; mult-user; more efficient than XML (I hope).

Differences from Plex: Music only.

Jellyfin: architecture looks good, all open source, but it seems video-focused and like it would suck for managing music; also seems to be .net-based Totally novel API ?

Requirements:

• Scanning and discovery
• Uploads
• Permissions / users and ownership
• Tag editing
• Playlist building, names, images, descriptions
• Reencoding / transcoding
• Desktop and mobile client support
• Low-bandwidth connection support
• Gracefully handle albums, multi-artist albums, singles
• Music only. No videos, no podcast-specific support.
• Offline mode