* feat: add optional natural sort order for names and titles Album, artist, song and playlist lists sort with a plain text comparison, so names containing numbers come out as "Foo 1, Foo 10, Foo 2" instead of "Foo 1, Foo 2, Foo 10" (issue #4554). Adds an EnableNaturalSorting option, default off, that switches those sorts to a NATSORT collation registered on every connection and backed by natural.CompareFold. natural.Compare gained an ASCII case-folding variant because it replaces 'collate nocase': sort_* columns hold raw tag values, so without folding they would order uppercase before lowercase. Applying the collation only inside mapSortOrder would have missed the default configuration entirely, since that mapper runs only when PreferSortTags is on. setSortMappings now also rewrites the order_* columns when natural sorting is enabled on its own. Sorts over plain text columns that are not order_* columns (playlist.name, album.name, media_file.title, playlist_tracks title) are wrapped explicitly, and qualified with their table because 'user' is joined and also has a 'name' column. The option defaults to off because the collation cannot use the existing indexes: measured on a synthetic 110k album library, the first page of an album-by-name listing goes from 0.03ms to 14ms. Indexing the expression was rejected outright - an index declared with a custom collation makes the whole database unreadable to any tool that does not register it, including the sqlite3 CLI, which fails even on 'select count(*)' and 'pragma integrity_check'. * refactor: fold the two sort-order mappers into one mapSortOrder and mapNaturalOrder shared the same regex and loop, differing only in the expression they substituted, and setSortMappings picked between them with a two-case switch. mapSortOrder now selects the column shape itself and defers to collatedSort for the collation, so the 'collate' clause is emitted in one place and the caller only has to decide whether any mapping is needed at all. The mapper tests were three near-identical cases that each hard-coded one flag combination; they are now a DescribeTable covering all four combinations of PreferSortTags and EnableNaturalSorting, which the previous set did not. The album sorting specs collapse the same way. Behavior is unchanged. * fix: leave plain sort columns alone when natural sorting is off collatedSort wrapped its column unconditionally, so the tiebreakers added for plain text columns picked up 'collate nocase' even with EnableNaturalSorting off. media_file.title, the playlist_tracks alias of it, and user.user_name are all declared without a collation, so a default install would have silently switched those tiebreaks from binary to case-insensitive ordering. Only playlist.name was already NOCASE and genuinely unaffected. The helper is now naturalSort and returns the column untouched unless the option is on, so the default path keeps the collation each column was declared with. sortCollation had a single remaining caller and folded into mapSortOrder. Tests: the CompareFold table body was a verbatim copy of the Compare one, so both now go through one expectOrder helper, and the album sorting specs inline two single-use closures. * fix(natural): defer the leading-zero tie-break to keep ordering transitive Compare applied the padding difference between numerically equal digit runs only when one side ended at the digit boundary, and ignored it mid-string. That made the relation intransitive: CompareFold("1","1a") < 0 and CompareFold("1a","01a") == 0, yet CompareFold("1","01a") > 0. SQLite requires a collating function to be transitive and leaves ORDER BY undefined otherwise, so registering this as NATSORT was not safe. Reproduced with the real driver on three artist names that occur in practice - "3", "3 doors down" and "03 greedo" - where paging one row at a time returned "03 greedo" twice and dropped "3" entirely. The padding difference is now carried as a tie-break that is applied only when the strings are otherwise equal, which restores transitivity while keeping the documented intent (a01 < a1, a0 < a00). Three existing entries changed: each asserted that two distinct strings compare equal, which was the same defect seen from the other side. Found by the Codex review on #6015.
Navidrome Music Server 
Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It's like your personal Spotify!
Note: The master branch may be in an unstable or even broken state during development.
Please use releases instead of
the master branch in order to get a stable set of binaries.
Check out our Live Demo!
Any feedback is welcome! If you need/want a new feature, find a bug or think of any way to improve Navidrome, please file a GitHub issue or join the discussion in our Subreddit. If you want to contribute to the project in any other way (ui/backend dev, translations, themes), please join the chat in our Discord server.
Installation
See instructions on the project's website
Cloud Hosting
PikaPods has partnered with us to offer you an officially supported, cloud-hosted solution. A share of the revenue helps fund the development of Navidrome at no additional cost for you.
Features
- Handles very large music collections
- Streams virtually any audio format available
- Reads and uses all your beautifully curated metadata
- Great support for compilations (Various Artists albums) and box sets (multi-disc albums)
- Multi-user, each user has their own play counts, playlists, favourites, etc...
- Very low resource usage
- Multi-platform, runs on macOS, Linux and Windows. Docker images are also provided
- Ready to use binaries for all major platforms, including Raspberry Pi
- Automatically monitors your library for changes, importing new files and reloading new metadata
- Supports lyrics from sidecar .ttml, .yaml/.yml Lyricsfile, .elrc, .lrc, .srt, .txt files and embedded TTML, Enhanced LRC, LRC, SRT, and plain-text tags (via
lyricspriority) - Themeable, modern and responsive Web interface based on Material UI
- Compatible with all Subsonic/Madsonic/Airsonic clients
- Transcoding on the fly. Can be set per user/player. Opus encoding is supported
- Translated to various languages
Translations
Navidrome uses POEditor for translations, and we are always looking for more contributors
Documentation
All documentation can be found in the project's website: https://www.navidrome.org/docs. Here are some useful direct links:
Screenshots
