Navidrome on my server, with Feishin as the client on my computers, and Symfonium on my phone.
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Feishin has turned out to be pretty great.
Indeed. I was a bit skeptical at first, because, well...there are a lot of shitty media players out there and I'd never heard of Feishin. I did some skirt lifting and some reading and figured I'd give it a go. I used to use MusicBee, which is a pretty good media library player. MusicBee, as good as it is, lacks the...shall we say, 'candy' to it. Then I tested out Feishin, and that's thje end of the story. LOL
Way back, i used to have a Linux TV with an app called Clementine on it for music. The magic was being able to just hit play on a song and the playlist used the scrobbles for LastFM to keep the thing going. Great for evenings with friends, it was like having Spotify before Spotify existed.
Feishin does this! It tries to keep the same style going, although I now used ListenBrainz instead.
Seems to be a very active dev team. I get updates regularly.
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Navidrome server, which I access either through the web UI or through the Tempus app on Android
Plexamp
If I'm working then normally I use the smart playlists to mix it up a little.
I use Navidrome on the server side
Tempus on Android (maintained fork of Tempo)
Feishin on desktop
I also recently set up music assistant to try and stream my music to my TV too, although I haven't used it yet beyond just testing and don't see myself using it too much
I scrobble my Navidrome up to ListenBrainz too, which then gives weekly recommendations to add to my collection.
Holy shit I almost thought I posted a comment and then somehow forgot about it. Are you me?
Ok well, I don't really listen on TV nor do I have a music assistant, but I do have Jelly on my TV for my family.
But I LOVE Feishin so much, it's absolutely gorgeous.
I use LMS (Lightweight Music Server) on my server with the web interface to play on the desktop. It also scrobble to listenbrainz for discovery but I have to say, the weekly suggestions that hits my RSS feed, is music I already have. So not that great, at least for now.
On mobile I use Ultrasonic that downloads music on the phone as it plays the tracks. So the offline use is "automatic".
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On my phone I use VLC player to play files that I saved on local storage.
Navidrome server.
Mobile: dsub2000
Desktop: feishin (or sometimes my own tui client)
Tempus is phenomenal. I switched to navidrome on my server to use it. Chora is also good, and I use it on my TV (works well on any screen). If you don't mind closed-source, Symphonum is excellent.
If you are using Jellyfin, it works well on PC, with Fintunes on mobile.
You can find a number of good apps for navidrome here. I quite like Strawberry, which is cross-platform. I use it locally for library management.
I connect everything with Tailscale, which may or may not work on your work network, depending on how locked down the network is. I never had an issue.
Feishin on Desktop. Symfonium on phone. (I can also recommend Tempo, which is open source but doesn't work over Android Auto last I tried.) To host my music I use Navidrome. Which I have setup as a docker container, behind a reverse proxy. The files are stored on my NAS. To access remotely I have Wireguard setup. That being said, to use Android Auto with Symfonium while my Navidrome is only accessible on my network or over VPN I use split tunneling otherwise Android Auto throws a fit.
I have a very similar setup. I work from home and use a tablet with symphonium for radio and my personal collection. When I'm in the car since I don't have Android Auto, I just connect my phone with the Bluetooth. And I use tailscale as the VPN.
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VLC for files in local storage.
Tempus for streaming / downloading the rest from my Navidrome instance.
In the laptop, I tried Supersonic to stream music from my server, but for some odd reason it audibly degraded sound quality, so I ditched it an have been using my browser since. I might try it again, though, and see if the issue has been fixed.
Streaming server: Navidrome
Desktop client: Navidrome web
Android client: Symfonium
Almost the same as you, except I use Feishin as a desktop client
Just sync my files to my sd card.
VLC, I just rsync my library to my phone with a script when at home
Finamp on my phone, it's working perfectly with my online Jellyfin server that I use on PC.
Jellyfin as a server where my music is hosted.
Jellyfin's web client to stream on my personal laptop.
Symphonium to stream on my Android phone, and sometimes Deezer (when I want to check out new songs).
Deemix to extract songs I like from Deezer to my server.
Tailscale for external access.
On my work laptop I only listen to online radios, or I just use my phone. I guess I could connect to my server on it, but the laptop belongs to my company, so I avoid any access to my personal stuff.
Same. Except work seems to block my cloudflare tunnel so I have to use Synology reverse proxy.
Navidrome server on the NAS. If I'm away from home and using a computer, I have it exposed to the internet and just use the web app.
On my home computer I've been using PsySonic lately and like it quite a bit. Quirks here and there, but it does get updates.
On my phone, and so just about everywhere, I use Symfonium. None of the FOSS apps I found last year did it for me. Symfonium is ridiculously customizable.
I recently set up Navidrome on my home server. I listen using Symphonium. Its all basically "Spotify but my own music collection."
Copy stuff from my nas to phone (cable or x-plore), play independently with pulsar+
I guess that is a way.
It is indeed and it has absolutely no dependencies, which is what I am going for.
Rock on with yo' bad self.
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GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.
Booming Music for local storage, with some Bandcamp streaming and occasional YouTube playlists via NewPipe.
Hoo boy I wanted the full 2000's download individual songs and organize them on your device experience so I spent too much time finding apps for each step.
Seal - lets you download videoes if you have a video link, like a youtube video zarchiver - gives you better file management and control than most standard smart phone OS obfuscation bullshit. use it to rename and organize your downloads
Aimp - allows you to make playlists and play your music
Is it the fastest way? nope is it even good? probably not but there are no commercials, and you only have to organize it once
Give New Pipe and / or PipePipe a go, I use them to download just the audio from youtube (can do the video too of course...)
I also use Ghost Commander and Material Files to help organise files...
All of these are on F-Droid if you wanted to try them out.
I personally just use local music playback, with SyncThing for syncing between devices. That mean I can listen to them offline!
On Android, I use Auxio, but Lotus and Chocola (previously CuteMusic) are awesome too.
On Linux, I use an mpd-based option called rmpc. Tauon and Gapless are also great! As for mobile Linux, Gapless is a good option that works pretty well. You might also like Plattenalbum, a GTK-based MPD client.
In my living room, Kodi. On PC, Strawberry Music Player. On android phone, Musicolet.
I have a Pandora subscription. Trying to make it play nice with Music Assistant.
VLC on mobile or desktop, SD card music folder synced with desktop and server
Moved to Apple Music after Rogan started airing on Spotify. Hence Apple Music on the phone, streaming through Cider on Arch otherwise
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