Not sure if it fits in your setup, but I’m accomplishing what you’re looking for (myservice.mydomain.com) with self-hosted AdGuard and DNS rewrites (send URL X to IP Y), and then just point the router to AdGuard DNS.

The few services I need to access from outside my home LAN run through Tailscale on my laptop or phone, so no services are publicly exposed.

That makes sense, thank you! I wasn’t really thinking about managing “internal” computers, only in terms of “you must use this specific software on your (personal) computer”, which clearly ignores huge parts of the issue.

Thank you for taking the time to explain this is such great detail! You’ve made it crystal clear 😊👌

I assume there’s an implicit /s here 😅

At this point I’m starting to wonder if Microsoft is paying Adobe to not work on Linux. For most people I know, Adobe is the main reason for not switching.

Honestly (and probably naïvely), what exactly is it that Windows can do that you couldn’t do on another OS? Why would a school need to force such a retarded requirement?

Finally managed to have a go at a new collection, and think I ended up with a setup that isn’t all that bad 😊

• Lidarr (Plugin Edition).
• Tubifarry plugin (so much better than my last attempt, which was with Soularr).
• Tubifarry uses SLSKD as indexer and client.
• Set up an extra metadata profile in Lidarr with most release formats added, for those rare occasions where I need to find something obscure for a specific artist.
• When needed, I manually tag and import files. I haven’t had good experiences with Beets or Picard (neither desktop nor Docker version), so for re-tagging I just use Kid3 on my Mac, accessing the music files in situ on the server. Most things go pretty smoothly, though, and I just use Lidarr for renaming files (and moving, if necessary).
• I’ve made sure that Lidarr has access to a Bin folder, though, for those occasional times when it decides to just randomly delete something 🙄
• For Navidrome, I’ve figured out that the best way to fix missing album art is to just add it directly to the music files through Kid3.
• For persistent missing files in Navidrome, I’ve realised there’s a ‘Missing files’ function when you click the profile icon (top right), and this solves a lot of the gripes I had with Navi previously.
• For playback, mainly on Android, I’m using Symphonium, which seems happy as long as Navi’s happy.

All in all, I think I’ve got everything a bit under control this time around 😊

Now I just need to remember to get the backup situation under control … 🫣

Again, thanks for your help! ❤️

Thank you for the suggestions! I’ll give it another go, see if I can make it work 👍

I was using Symfonium as my client on Android, maybe that was part of the problem.

I used Beets for processing/tagging, which was also troublesome; never could get it to do anything on its own, had to manually initiate every session, and lots of stuff needed handholding to get tagged correctly. Never could get Picard to work at all, neither in Docker nor on my desktop.

I managed to get a pretty decent collection going, accessed through Navidrome and have to admit I wasn’t a fan. Artwork missing, multiple profiles for the same artists, the inability to remove albums that were no longer on the server. The whole thing just felt like a struggle.

Then the disk my collection was on kicked the bucket, and hadn’t gotten around to setting up backup, so I’m starting over from scratch 😅

Bit miffed Navi is still what people are recommending 😔