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Plex and Plexamp. I know the dislike for Plex here, but it works for me and Plexamp is a fantastic piece of kit which, in opinion is worth the lifetime sub alone.
Navidrome + MusicAssistant
Plex + Synfonium
Also
Navidrome + Synfonium / Tempo
I'm trying out different things in prep to switch to navidrome. I'm impressed how lightweight it is and it hasnt required much work to fix up the library tags as most were already minimally tagged.
One I figure out a secure way to expose it behind auth I'll be able to switch over.
Its been a heck of a time trying to get forwardAuth working with Zitadel so I'm trying out Authelia
I'll second navidrome.
I've also added bonob to expose it to some sonos hardware I got for free. I've found it's the easiest way to get custom music and streaming radio into sonos. Music Assistant buffers for some reason.
I'm having the same issues with exposing it. I have mine behind Caddy+caddy-security and it works well through the browser, but I haven't found a native app that can handle that method. I think I'll add it to tailscale eventually to work around that.
Hosted with Jellyfin, for clients I use Symfonium on Android and Feishin on desktop.
emby and shares. emby unlike jellyfish can mount remote smb shares right in the webinterface. proxmox/lxc and jellyfin is a pain in the ass you do not want.
that was a big choke point for me for a while also!
i keep this in my linkwarden!
I've just put it on an SMB share and use symfonium
people speak highly of this one. I'll have to do a little research
Server: Gonic
Clients: Strawberry on linux/android, DSub on Android, Amperfy on iPad/macOS
~200 000, mainly flac, accessible everywhere
Gonic
Wow, I thought I had a large music collection. I mean, I can put the whole 80k on random and it will be months before I hear a repeat. 200k you'd hear a song and then maybe on your 80th birthday hear it repeat. LOL The larger majority of my songs are from Indie groups I used to promo.
I checked out Gonic.
Strawberry doesn't have android release, does it?
Wait. There's a strawberry for Android? I use it on my PC....
I'll have to try DSub(2000), looks pretty nice. I've been using Ultrasonic. I do like that Ultrasonic allows you to browse cached files as if they were their own server, which DSub doesn't seem to do.
gonic looks cool! i am investigating more!
Plex and PlexAmp
It's unpopular around here, but Plexamp is fantastic.
Completely agree. I paid for Symfonium after seeing a lot of people on here raving about it but I still ended up back with Plexamp. I'd be curious to hear what people find other apps do better than plexamp.
E:\mp3
I got an SMB sync app on my phone, stores any new music I've found into the network folder and syncs it up on my phone.
Sorted. Wherever I get more tracks from, they're available on all my devices.
I currently host Navidrome, which has an okay web player. On Android I use "Tempo" (though it is unmaintained) to connect to it, and on Linux I use Tauon (though it has very poor playback). I could not find a native Linux client that is not buggy unfortunately, so I'm also on the lookout for better solutions!
I'm not familiar with the device you are talking about but every client I tried supports MPRIS, which are the regular media controls that can be used via the playerctl command, so you should be able to hook things up that way.
I have just set up Navidrome from the first time and I'm using Feishin as my Linux desktop client. I installed it via nix because it isn't in the Fedora repos as far as I could tell
I did use Feishin for a while, it's an excellent music player but unfortunately not a native program. I might switch back to it from Tauon though, as actually playing the whole song before going to the next is a pretty nice upgrade hehe
Have you had problems on android with tempo not continuing playback?
I also run navidrome, and have tried tempo, substreamer, and another client I can't think of, and any of the clients that stream keep stopping playback after one song when the screen is locked.
I've given the client all the permissions for running in the background and using battery that I can and no matter what I do, it'll just stop after one song.
I'm on a pixel 7a with gOS.
For now I've settled on Poweramp with tla selection of the music on my phone since I can't fit it all in storage. Its been really frustrating.
Hmm no, I haven't had this issue. Tempo works fine for me, it's been mostly bug-free except for a few oversights:
- search doesn't work offline
- can't play AAC files
- can't skip songs via my Pebble watch
I'm (still) on a Pixel 3a, running LineageOS, in case that matters.
Ultrasonic works fine for me, on my pixel9 with Navidrome. Plays in the background just fine as well.
I'll give ultrasonic a try. Thank you.
pixel7a gOS gang rise up!
🤜🤛
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