Navidrome is great for streaming self-hosted FLACs, but checking what my kids are listening to meant constantly logging in and out of different accounts and since playback history lives entirely in client apps, past history vanishes into the void.
Instead of fighting third-party scrobblers or writing complicated webhooks, I just pointed a tiny Python script straight at the local SQLite DB. Now, a regular cron job drops a clean, zero-tracker static HTML dashboard into an Nginx container. No cloud services, no telemetry, just a local page to see family play counts.
Navidrome Dashboard can be found on my tools page here: 🔗 https://unknownuniverse.uk/tools
This just reads as creepy and controlling.
Music is very personal. If they don’t offer up what they’ve been listening to willingly in conversation then I don’t think they’d appreciate being tracked through database queries.
Kinda, but also if your kid is listening to lots of music about suicide that’s probably something that should be noticed.
I don’t restrict music from my kids but as a parent I want to know what they are listening to so I can have open conversations with them. At the same time seeing their listening habits can also help me pick up on how they’re feeling.
I think it is best to talk about music instead of looking at their habits. That way they can freely express their music taste without feeling like being spied on. That way they can share what they feel like sharing.
Did your parents monitor your listening habits? For me, music was instrumental for what I am as an adult and my parents never asked me what and why I listened to something.
