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right now I'm trying a dedicated Jellyfin instance for audio only (bought the lifetime emby subscription before i learned about jellyfin, so video is elsewhere) but having trouble finding a good client that could run on the guts of an old autonomic MMS2A. That device has an analog and digital output, which with the normal OS treated as two separate sources. is that something anyone else has tinkered with? the original plan was to just run a kodi instance with the jellyfin addon, but im not sure if this has the horsepower to run kodi, and certainly not two at once! (4gb of ram max for this beast.

i need it to be remotely controllable, it'd be cool to have easy playlist management/backup that other devices could see, and potentially an android client if possible?

I've dabbled with the "____sonic" ecosystem back before i was really good at linux, and struggled a bunch, before giving up without anything real to show for it.

just curious if anyone else has been down this road successfully!

thanks for this community, my scrolling stops INSTANTLY when i see a post from here.

(oh my music server is a truenas SMB share, hosted in a proxmox vm! not opposed to putting a big SSD in this device if local music would make things easier)

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[–] mat@linux.community 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] mat@linux.community 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can't recommend symfonium enough it's really great even better then plexamp

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is, but it requires GPlay to operate and maintain your sub.

I switched to Subtracks when I dumped Google.

[–] mat@linux.community 3 points 1 day ago

It looks really good indeed, and I don't mind at all to pay for apps (I pay for FairEmail)... however it is very strange for me to add a nonfree app to the list I use every day... everything else is open source.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Sometimes I get this error you mentioned but I'm usually driving and can't see what track triggers this behavior but I guess this has something to do with the song format or codec. I usually just hit next and play to keep listening to my songs ..

[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ultrasonic works fine for me, on my pixel9 with Navidrome. Plays in the background just fine as well.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I'll give ultrasonic a try. Thank you.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago
[–] mat@linux.community 2 points 1 day ago

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.