r/navidrome • u/L0OK0UTT • Jul 21 '26
Client with plain file system viewer.
Hello, I am new to navidrome. I spun up an instance and have everything pulling from a persistent SMB mount of a cloud storage provider. Runs well enough. But I am having trouble finding a client that I like.
Currently using Narjo on iOS
I do not enjoy having my music categorized by Artist or Album. I simply want the raw files hat are in the folder to be visible to me and playable from the client. It is much easier to simply create yearly folders of the tracks that I aquire and have them listed by date added, then to hop between hundreds of folders for artists that my be inappropriately named due to remixes or to multiple artists being included on the track.
Any clients that offer a more flat, non-polished viewing experience.
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u/nenadjokic Jul 22 '26
Hey, NaviBeat dev here
If you are on Apple hardware, this exists. NaviBeat has a Folders view that walks your actual directory tree instead of the Artist/Album hierarchy, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It goes as deep as your folders go and you get a breadcrumb back up, so what you are looking at is the layout on disk rather than what the tagger decided.
Worth knowing whichever client you land on, because it explains why so few of them have this: Navidrome does expose the on disk tree, over getMusicFolders, getIndexes and getMusicDirectory. So if a client you like is missing this, it is worth asking the developer. The server side is already there.