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I am just a hobbyist and don't do any tech for work, but I enjoy tinkering. I have a Nextcloud that I like to use to keep files between my phone and a few computers in sync. That does include my media. For my phone I have been liking an app Power Ampache 2 as it lets me stream and save music locally (I don't have unlimited data so somethings I do want to keep).

Part of the motivation is just because and just to host more things makes me feel more pro. I am a bit curious about what otherset ups people in the community might have settled for and why?

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[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 5 points 3 days ago

Out of those two, I would go with Navidrome. Jellyfin is more monolithic of an app, and navidrome (more specifically, subsonic clients) is more Unix-like (or modular). You can't edit the tags as easily as with Jellyfin, but beets works really well for tagging and embedding everything from album art to synced lyrics. Beets has great plugins to do all this, including a web app plugin and an auto update plugin.