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This (moreso for youtube music, since Deezer seems to not have a lot of East Asian labels signed) is a huge part of why I've been building out a selfhosted Navidrome.
Obviously there is the old school way of getting music. But Bandcamp is WAY more beneficial to the artists and ebay and Half Price Books are also awesome for grabbing music.
And combine all that with musicbrainz for scrobbling and discoverability of new bands.
I rrecently built a home server and tried getting into Navidrome, but I kinda disliked the UI - didn't feel as intuitive to me and kinda clunky. How do you listen to your music primarily? If on a phone, do you have an app to stream the music to you?
Symfonium on my phone (so also android auto and just connecting to a bluetooth speaker while I cook) and Feishin on my desktop. Still need to verify that scrobbles are propagated correctly for discoverability purposes (so far it looks like ratings in Feishin aren't propagated to the server).
I could probably have gotten away with just mpd but figured "why not?".
Symfonium
It's not FOSS and has the worst payment system possible (donate to the dev then send him an email, and he will give you a license for a single device), so don't feel bad pirating it.
Update: it works surprisingly well. I linked it to my Jellyfin server and the music is played very well, even on the go and even if the song quality is lossless. I haven't quite figured out which UI design I prefer, still testing things out, but so far, I might consider a purchase
Judging by the reviews on the app store, it's at least a 5-buck one-time purchase and not a subscription as well as a worthy purchase. I'll give this a try