So as the title suggests I’m looking to leave behind Spotify for many obvious reasons over the previous years.
I’m thinking that because of my fairly limited music library that I should just stick with an offline library. However I want the option to expand it as I find new music here and there.
I know that I can use things such as Jellyfin to organise a library on my PC, but are there good options to “sync” the library to my phone other than just simply drag and drop the media?
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It’s been by far the most effective way to actually find files.
Google EeveeSpotify, SpotX, and SpotC++ (depending on your platform of choice). Basically patches the stock app to remove ads and playback restrictions, plus other nice quality of life features.
I found an old $5 mp3 player in a discount bin and get my CD’s from the local library where I convert them to mp3’s. CD’s from the library give you quite an eclectic mix of music. I just delete my mp3 files from time to time, knowing I can get them at the local library again.
My combo is Jellyfin+Symfonium
With Symfonium you can manually download playlists and favorites for offline, and/or have a “rolling cache” where the most frequent listens are automatically kept synced for offline listening.
My collection is far too large to keep on my phone in its entirety, but with Symfonium I don’t need to, and if I’m ever caught without internet, I’ve still plenty to listen to.
Jellyfin does not organize the music, it’s a way to browse and access it. For a nice client for desktop, look at Feishin.
To actually organize the music, you want something like Picard.
Is it on F-Droid? It’s a PITA to install play store apps because I’d have to install play store (bleh) so I’m hoping symfonium has a github or something so I could use Obtainium.
Symfonium is not open source. It is a paid app by a helpful and responsive sole dev.
If you want FOSS, that’s Finamp. But it is not as good. It does also implement offline play features.
The Symfonium dev has responded to and implemented two requests of mine, making me quite happy to pay for and mention their app.
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I went back to using a DAP in the car, at work, and on the go. Migrating back to single-function devices is the way.
This is one thing I have definitely considered! Do they come with Bluetooth as this would be good for the car too!
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It’s gone downhill in some regards (enshittification for free accounts), but I’m still using Plex and plexamp for my audio setup. Works equivalent to a self hosted Spotify.
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ooo that looks nice!
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Ye. It takes a little bit of effort to finde the right file you’r searching for. It all depends on how well the other users sorted their files. Your basically searching through a global hard-drive of hundreds of users. And everyone has a different understanding of how to name and sort files properly.
If you are already doing Jellyfin, you can sync as much or little to your phone as you want. Just use finamp. It’s a very nice player for Android that connects to your Jellyfin and allows you to download any synced music on the go or stream it directly.
For some PD classical music.
Either you pirate or you buy from bandcamp.
You can selfhost a navidrome server and stream the files from there. I dont know how tech savy you are but that is what I do.
Im using syncthing to sync my music with my phone. It’s really easy to setup and reliable. As a mediaplay on your PC I can really recommend Fooyin cause it’s fast, highly customizable, and has good searching functionality. On my Phone I’m running Symphony. Everything is FOSS of course :)
If you are wanting to pay, I’ve been happy with TIDAL. Cheaper, pays the artists more, offline download available, and importing your entire Spotify library is not many clicks. Playlists, likes, everything
Not off line at all, but I have been using funkwhale, guess you can upload your own personal pod. I do use a third party pod, but that is 'cause I’m ignorant on how to create my own server to stream my music.
If you have a ugreen nas. I suggest the ugreen nas app as the music player. It has one feature i have been missing from all other players:
Delete from your playing source (network storage)
