Navidrome: Can't create initial user

xyz · February 22, 2026, 10:27am

What app is this about, and its version: Navidrome
What YunoHost version are you running: 0.60.3~ynh1
What type of hardware are you using: Old laptop or computer

Describe your issue

After i upgraded to 0.60.3~ynh1, my Navidrome configuration was reset which, of course, was very annoying. What’s more, Navidrome would no longer notice my settings when I changed them. And after trying to fix this, I ended up not being able to log in to Navidrome any more.

So I decided to remove and reinstall the app, and now I can’t create the initial user.

In the documentation it say’s:
“When Navidrome is initially installed, before any users log in there is an option to create a Navidrome admin user by going directly to the access URL set for Navidrome in YunoHost. This admin account can create users who are able to log in via the same access URL.”

What URL is this? I set Navidrome to have the URL mydomain.no/navidrome, but when I visit that, I only get the login screen. No possibility to create user.

Share relevant logs or error messages

Nothing interesting in the log, as I can see.

xyz · February 22, 2026, 10:57am

So I actually got the “create user”-screen using my phone.

But now I’m back to not being able to change the settings. That is, the MusicFolder.

xyz · February 22, 2026, 2:41pm

Navidrome started recognizing my change of MusicFolder after a while, but not my last.fm ApiKey and Secret. I don’t help to restart the service. I can’t toggle “Scrobble to Last.fm”.

I must say, I hope that it will be included in the upgrade instructions the next time if the config will be reset, so that one at least can do a backup beforehand.

otm33 · February 22, 2026, 2:45pm

@xyz
The reset of your config file is quite weird: what does stat /home/yunohost.app/navidrome/navidrome.toml return ?

xyz · February 22, 2026, 3:22pm

It seems like I’ve been a bit confused about which config file to edit, because I just found out I’ve been editiong /etc/yunohost/apps/navidrome/conf/navidrome.toml for the last.fm stuff. For some reason, I couldn’t find my edit to the MusicFolder parameter in any of the files. I’m sure I did the edit, at least at some point, but I also tried to add the folder using the web interface, and I guess that’s what made it work. Anyway, when I made the changes to /home/yunohost.app/navidrome/navidrome.toml, everything seems to work fine.

About the config reset, all I know is that after the upgrade, Navidrome was looking for music in “/home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Music” and not the folder I had specified in my config before the upgrade. So at least something had changed. But I may have looked at the wrong config file to find out.

Having config files at two different locations is rather confusing.

otm33 · February 22, 2026, 3:24pm

Ok. So issue’s solved. See webadmin>apps>navidrome>admin doc

github.com/YunoHost-Apps/navidrome_ynh

doc/ADMIN.md

master

#### Where are stored your music files

Your music files are stored by default in your shared [multimedia folder](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/yunohost.multimedia) `/home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Music`. This folder is accessible from Nextcloud with *External Storages* enabled. This will allow you to easily upload your music files to the server.

You can configure an alternative path to you music files by editing the path `MusicFolder = "/home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Music"` in this file `__DATA_DIR__/navidrome.toml` using the [documentation](https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/configuration-options/). Remember to restart Navidrome service if you change your configuration file.

#### Accessing Navidrome

Navidrome uses its own password database and does not integrate with YunoHost LDAP, so there are two ways to access it:

- When Navidrome is initially installed, before any users log in there is an option to create a Navidrome admin user by going directly to the access URL set for Navidrome in YunoHost. This admin account can create users who are able to log in via the same access URL.
- The second method to access Navidrome is via YunoHost SSO, which is accomplished by logging in to YunoHost and then clicking on the Navidrome tile. With this method, the Navidrome password database is not populated with the YunoHost password which means future attempts to log in to Navidrome directly via the access URL will fail. This prevents alternative clients from logging in with the YunoHost user credentials, so in order to work around this issue, after logging in to Navidrome with SSO the user password can be manually set via the Navidrome interface. Any password will be accepted as the current password.

system · March 9, 2026, 3:25pm

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