VM having a EXT4 disk on a ZFS storage.
Files are (usually) FLAC
Files are ripped from CD with Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
Alternatively they are bought or 'lent' out ;)
Files are managed by Lidarr.
Jellyfin for atreaming.
On mobile ai use Symfonium.
I was going to try to host my music on Jellyfin, but I had an issue.
Since 2005 I’ve been curating my music collection with my old iPod that I still use.
I like my albums in release order so, with the iPod in mind, probably 80% of them are named [year] - [album]
Lidarr and Jellyfin won’t find them because of this and I don’t want to manually sort through 2000-some albums.
So I still use my iPod (20 years old next year!)
I still use an iPod too. Hard to beat even 20 years later.
Navidrome for me. Installed via Yunohost.
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.
I use Jellyfin with Finamp on Android/PC and the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi on my HTPC.
The Jellyfin plugin does movies/shows too and not just music but it handles music playback as well. For a dedicated music box I'm not sure if I would use Kodi for it.
I got 500 gb drive pcloud with my pia socket 5 proxy/ vpn and i can play music files in their app so i put my flacs there.
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.
What I am hoping is that I can generate an access key auth in Authelia. Synfonium supports accessKey as an alternative to basic auth for subsonic.
Maybe you could try that with caddy-security?
Synfonium is closed source, but you can use the free trial to test, and buy it outside of Google Play (which is the only reason I haven't dropped it earlier on my quest to de-Google)
Navidrome + MusicAssistant
i linked those together and will be testing further! i wonder what it offers over the regular smb share
tempo is slick!
I also enjoy Navidrome. What does Musicassistant add for you? Seems like it can do a whole lot
Hosted with Jellyfin, for clients I use Symfonium on Android and Feishin on desktop.
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.
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?
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.
Wait. There's a strawberry for Android? I use it on my PC....
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.
The other apps don't harvest my data, for one
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
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!
Navidrome, Feishin, Tempo.
I use Jellyfin with FinAmp for Android. Even supports offline caching.
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