Was just thinking about doing this over the weekend cuz youtube music's offline functionality seems to have gone down drastically.
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Anyone have suggestions for an iOS media player I can connect to a setup like this?
For Jellyfin I really like Manet and Finamp
i like use amperfy on ios and i think it’s nice. for jellyfin i tried finamp, but i disliked music streaming via jellyfin in the end (mainly because making playlists was a hassle)
amperfy takes me back to the old days when i used itunes and an ipod touch interface wise
I’ve been using play:Sub for years (for subsonic, then airsonic).
So the first sentence says TV and movie streaming replacement is trivial... Can you elaborate for someone who still uses the pirate bay for movies?
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Yup, been porting all my music to navidrome the past few months and it's pretty sweet. I like that there are native subsonic apps for most platforms (using tempo on android at the moment) and that navidrome also comes with its own web player to use on the fly.
Although my setup is much more simple, just using samba to get files to it and mp3tag to prepare the files if needed.
I initially used nextcloud with its music plugin (includes subsonic server) and its basically remote access + player + server in one, but its not as good imo. I'd rather use software that focuses on one thing and does it well.
I use a Navidrome server and ProjectBlue app on my Android. I haven't figured out how to download music for offline use by using my ProjectBlue app though.
Good write up. Spotify is the lsdt for me to replace
For me it's YouTube.
I need this i've been struggling to replace spotify.
Quickly read through the writeup, excellent work. I've been meaning to do something similar to this but haven't been able to properly commit the time to do the research required to make it all play nice.
I'll be doing this sometime soon 👍
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Nice! For an Android music player free and compatible with your setup you can try Tempo on FDroid
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