* fix(smartplaylists): merge negated artist/tag rules in AND groups Smart playlists with many negated role/tag conditions ANDed together (e.g. 100+ "isNot artist" rules, issue #5511) generated one correlated NOT EXISTS subquery per rule, scanning media_file_artists for every candidate row. On large libraries this took minutes and triggered API timeouts and SQLite lock contention. By De Morgan, "NOT EXISTS(role=X) AND NOT EXISTS(role=Y)" is equivalent to "NOT EXISTS(role=X OR role=Y)", so multiple negated conditions for the same field can be collapsed into a single batched NOT EXISTS. This mirrors the existing OR-group merge that #5515 added for positive conditions. The shared grouping/batching logic is extracted into mergeSameFieldConds, parameterized by polarity, so the OR/positive and AND/negated paths reuse one algorithm instead of duplicating it. roleCondGroup/tagCondGroup gain a 'not' flag to emit the negated subquery. Benchmark (323k tracks, 120 isNot artist rules, reporter's exact shape): merged ~54ms vs unmerged ~8.7s steady-state (~160x faster). * docs: trim redundant comments on merge helpers The De Morgan explanation was repeated across three doc comments. Keep it in one place (mergeNegatedJsonConds, where negation is introduced) and reduce the shared core and group-type comments to concise one-liners.
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
- 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:




