Anyone have opinions on Jellyfin vs music-specific servers like Navidrome?

I like Jellyfin and have it set up for movie, tvseries, youtube channel hosting for family members.

As a music server it has a few shortcomings (that can be fixed with contributed code - ATM this one is waaay down my TODO list so anyone that wants to step up - go for it, please) ..

It currently has non existent support of FullAlbum.flac with 'standard' TrackIndex.Cue track timing lists.

I ripped a lot of my early albums and CD's as single lossless FLAC (and APE and another format) files with track timings courtesy of either hand entry or the exactCD (?) database - there are many such rips out there is full album rips where popular for a good run of time.

Jellyfin sees these as single files, not as an album of tracks, and plays them as such with no track selection, next track, or resume.

Addressing this is on the github issues list.

Foobar2K and other music players have no issues with these files.

Personally I switched Navidrome since I found the clients to be better and the scanner to be lighter, but there's a few things I miss: casting was nice, as well as centralizing my media on one everything-app.

I haven't spent much time trying Jellyfin but I really like having my music information in a central location (Navidrome) and being able to stream to a variety of different clients based on my device. It works well for me so far.

For me Navidrome actually could run on my raspberry pi with my library.

I've used both, and wound up using Jellyfin mostly because it also does movies/TV and I mostly listen to music from external apps, so a music specific server wouldn't be adding much benefit.

I use Navidrome with Amperfy on MacOS/iOS and love it.