Navidrome — Maintainer Roadmap

Derived from open milestones, issues & PRs of navidrome/navidrome via an NKS reasoning graph. Every cited item shows its verified author and an author-role weight. Inferred dependencies are marked as hypotheses.

Honesty note (shabda intake). Issues and PRs are external word, taken in as hypotheses, not verified truth. #NNN always denotes a real GitHub issue/PR; directions are named D1…D5, never by internal id. An open PR is work in flight, not a guarantee it will land.

What to do next

Land the committed maintainer metadata work in D1. The configurable PID.Artist / credited-participants PR (#5527, deluan, MEMBER, high) is the keystone of library identity and is maintainer-authored — review & merge first. Surrounding maintainer deeds (#5662, #5568) already merged.
Clear the two open Big Refactor milestone items — #2650 (Recently Added ranks by Update not Create timestamp, anarcat) and #1652 (non-numeric tracknumber tags, awsms). These are the only two open issues in the committed Big Refactor milestone; both block correct library identity (D1).
Triage the New UI milestone's 4 open issues, led by #3020 (web player skips, Pachin0) — a core-experience bug in D4 — and #245 (audiobook resume, JaneX8, CONTRIBUTOR) which the D4 telos already promises.

Then: resolve the D1↔D3 plugin-host hypothesis (see Dependencies), and work the contributor-PR backlog (ratings D2, sharing/auth D5) where engagement is real.

Committed milestones

The four open GitHub milestones — the maintainer's scheduled plan, the strongest single signal. Every open milestone issue is listed in full.

Big Refactor 2 open · 22 closed

aka New Scanner; tracking #2709.

#	Title	Author	Assoc.	Weight	Dir.
#2650	Recently Added shouldn't rely on Update but Create timestamp	anarcat	NONE	high · milestone	D1
#1652	Support for non-numeric tracknumbers tags	awsms	NONE	high · milestone	D1

New UI 4 open · 15 closed

Rewrite of the Web UI on React-Admin 5/6.

#	Title	Author	Assoc.	Weight	Dir.
#3020	Web Player Skips	Pachin0	NONE	high · milestone	D4
#1473	Add the Rating column to the Playlist view (Multiselect & Rate)	WolfgangDpunkt	NONE	high · milestone	D2
#389	Import, display and filter by Label/Publisher	Baswazz	NONE	high · milestone	D1
#245	Remember playing queue and last position (partial audiobook support)	JaneX8	CONTRIBUTOR	high · milestone	D4

Plugins 0 open

Committed milestone (add a plugin system) with no open issues on the board. Live plugin-host work is driven through open PRs in D3 (#5643, #5655, #5668).

Full Text Search 0 open · 2 closed

Committed milestone (FTS in the DB + an omni search bar) with no open issues remaining. Live nearby work: CJK-search perf PR #5614 (in D3).

Directions

Ordered by signal strength (D1 carries the most committed + maintainer items). No hard dependencies between directions — each is independently actionable.

D1Metadata, tagging & library identity

Library identity becomes authoritative and editable: writable tags, configurable artist/track identity (PID, MBID, credited participants), correct non-numeric & grouped sorting, MusicBrainz enrichment — on a scanner/DB model that orders by the right timestamps and survives without corruption.

Driving issues & PRs

Ref	What	Author	Weight	State
#5527	Configurable `PID.Artist` + credited participants	deluan MEMBER	high	open PR
#5453	Metadata-management / tag-writing system	Serikpg NONE	low	open PR
#5662	Annotation-index speedup for smart playlists	deluan MEMBER	high	merged ✅
#5568	`Scanner.IgnoreDotFolders` — index dot-folders	deluan MEMBER	high	merged ✅
#5668	Match similar/top songs across multiple artists	deluan MEMBER	high	merged ✅
#389	Import/display/filter by Label/Publisher (ms: New UI)	Baswazz NONE	high · ms	open issue
#1652	Non-numeric tracknumber tags (ms: Big Refactor)	awsms NONE	high · ms	open issue

Open risks (bugs)

Ref	Risk	Author	Weight
#4830	"database disk image is malformed" — SQLite corruption / data loss (most severe reported bug)	Toniob	medium
#2650	Recently Added ranks by Update not Create timestamp (ms: Big Refactor)	anarcat	high
#2575	API serves a fallback artist image instead of 404	tzugen	medium

Unblocks: a correct, writable, well-ordered library identity — the substrate every other direction draws on.

D2Ratings & personal listening signals

A listener's ratings become first-class and act everywhere: rate from the player, rate in bulk, see ratings in every list (incl. playlists), aggregate across users, and let ratings shape playback (skip low-rated in shuffle).

Driving issues & PRs

Ref	What	Author	Weight	State
#5550	`SkipLowRatingInShuffle` — exclude 1-star from shuffle	Finomosec NONE	medium	open PR
#5570	Inline star-rating control in the player toolbar	realrossmanngroup NONE	low	open PR
#5552	Bulk rate/like multiple selected songs	Finomosec NONE	low	open PR
#5561	User ratings with cross-user average display	plutskiy NONE	low	open PR
#1473	Rating column in Playlist view + Multiselect & Rate (ms: New UI)	WolfgangDpunkt NONE	high · ms	open issue

Unblocks: ratings as a usable signal — feeds shuffle/queue behaviour and the ratings-in-playlists UI (#1473). Leans on D1's identity model.

D3Subsonic / OpenSubsonic API & plugin extensibility

A fully OpenSubsonic-compatible, extensible server: missing API endpoints & attributes (play history, work/movement, podcasts, working jukebox), and a plugin host exposing core services (song matcher, shared DTO types, faster CJK search).

Driving issues & PRs

Ref	What	Author	Weight	State
#5643	Expose song matcher as a plugin `Matcher` host service	deluan MEMBER	high	open PR
#5655	Shared `types` package for plugin DTOs (PDK refactor)	deluan MEMBER	high	open PR
#5614	NOCASE covering indexes to speed up CJK search	deluan MEMBER	high	open PR
#5650	`getSongHistory` Subsonic endpoint	Voten641 NONE	low	open PR
#5659	OpenSubsonic `works` / `movements` attributes	deluan MEMBER	high	merged ✅

Open risks (bugs)

Ref	Risk	Author	Weight
#2771	Jukebox (server-side playback) control does not work	julienlag	medium

Unblocks: the plugin host surface — which D1's external-metadata enrichment may depend on (hypothesis below). Carries the live work behind the otherwise-empty Plugins and Full Text Search milestones.

D4Web player & UI experience

A richer, more reliable listening surface: a player that doesn't skip, browsable album artwork, an artist page, audiobook-style resume, rendering lyrics (incl. external .lrc), themeable UI, smoother share downloads, localized dates.

Driving issues & PRs

Ref	What	Author	Weight	State
#5598	Album image gallery / lightbox	BorisLord NONE	medium	open PR
#5631	Share-download dialog: current item vs. whole share	katedickey NONE	low	open PR
#5664	Add Rosé Pine themes (based on Catppuccin files)	draconivis NONE	low	open PR
#5632	Single `ParseLyrics` entry point; fixes sidecar lyrics	deluan MEMBER	high	merged ✅
#3020	Web Player Skips (ms: New UI)	Pachin0 NONE	high · ms	open issue
#245	Remember queue & last position / audiobook resume (ms: New UI)	JaneX8 CONTRIBUTOR	high · ms	open issue

Open risks (bugs)

Ref	Risk	Author	Weight
#3020	Web player skips during playback (ms: New UI)	Pachin0	high
#4148	External sidecar `.lrc` lyrics don't render (related fix merged in #5632)	CrazyVito11	medium

Unblocks: a reliable listening surface — the most user-visible direction; #3020 and #245 are committed New UI milestone work.

D5Multi-user: authentication, sharing & social

A genuinely multi-user server: stronger/flexible auth (app passwords, LDAP/AD, improved SSO), shareable & co-edited playlists, and social features — seeing what others play, synchronized listening, following public playlists.

Driving issues & PRs

Ref	What	Author	Weight	State
#5460	Playlist view/edit permissions — collaborative playlists (API; UI pending)	DerRockWolf NONE	medium	open PR
#5513	Per-user named app passwords (revocable secondary creds)	zkvvoob NONE	low	open PR

Unblocks: real multi-user use — app passwords and shared playlists are the first stepping stones toward the social features in the telos.

Dependencies

No confirmed anantara ordering between directions — D1–D5 are each independently actionable, and the four committed milestones can be worked in parallel.

D1Metadata D2Ratings D3API / plugins D4Web player D5Multi-user — all parallel-ready

HYPOTHESIS — heuristic, unverified

D1's external-source metadata enrichment (e.g. missing studio albums from MusicBrainz #5106, multi-artist matching) may lean on the plugin-host surface delivered in D3 — the song matcher exposed as a host service (#5643) and the merged multi-artist matcher (#5668). This is the roadmap author's architectural inference, not established by any issue, PR, or maintainer statement. Treat it as a sequencing hint, not a gate: D1 holds 3 of the open committed-milestone items and is independently actionable.
Closing criterion: a maintainer statement either confirms the dependency (then it becomes a real D1-after-D3 ordering) or denies it (then drop the hint).

Author weights from GitHub authorAssociation (resolved from the API, never inferred) + engagement + milestone membership. MEMBER/CONTRIBUTOR = high; milestone-committed issues = high regardless of reactions; NONE issues = medium; drive-by NONE PRs = low. Community PRs are attributed to their actual contributor, never to the maintainer. Generated from the NKS bianhua map (realm github-skill-test); directions D1–D5 map to graph nodes in the realm, never shown as #NNN.