Looking to access the music from an Android app.
Currently I’m using Jellyfin (since I already use it for other stuff), but it isn’t ideal. No option to download entire albums easily, and if the server is offline then I can’t even use the music downloaded to my phone.
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Similar setup for me: Navidrome container on my NAS, DSub or Symfonium on Android, and Wireguard for music while I run.
Any reason you prefer to wireguard into Navidrome instead of reverse proxying to a domain?
probably more secure that way and you dont have to fuck with domains.
i have my setup with reverse proxy and domain with plex and plex amp
Yeah this is it for me, I’m happy to connect to it via IP and I only have to punch 1 port open in my firewall for wireguard and I can access more than just my music server remotely.
Navidrome is great. I use Substreamer on my Android device while my wife can use the same on iOS. Started off a little buggy when it released but it’s very stable nowadays. I think many have moved to it from DSub according to Google Play reviews.
I mainly use DSub simply because I don’t need constant updates for my music player and it already pretty much does what I need it to. The other plus it’s on F-Droid so I don’t have to use Aurora store to download it.
Thanks, will try this setup
Lidarr to dl and plex/plexamp for listening. No issues so far. Haven’t got to use sonic analysis yet but it’s interesting that you could choose 2 songs and it will use sonic analysis to make a Playlist bridging between the two.
+1 for Plex and Plexamp. The Plexamp app works great on Android and Linux. Without that, I don’t think I’d use Plex for music.
Another +1 for Plexamp. It’s enjoyable and easy to use and they’re very actively developing and supporting it.
Right now I’m using Plexamp. Really nice app, offline features work really well. Sonic Analysis is awesome. Only issue I have is it crashed sometimes when I’m using Google maps.
Plexamp is what I use. It’s the closest feel to using my iPod touch back in the day. I just wish there was a better way to display archived podcasts!
I have really wanted Plex to improve the way they support podcasts (and audiobooks) but sadly, I don’ think they care about podcasts anymore.
Check out audiobookshelf, they’re picking up the slack from Plex; dedicated for audiobooks and podcasts.
Yep, already been using it for awhile. Generally I just like having all my media in one place, so I’d prefer to have it in Plex, but, it’s just not possible and probably never will be.
I’ve been using navidrome since the start of the year. It was my first instance of self hosting my music and my main focus was to have a dedicated project for it and to not use something like Plex, Jellyfin, etc. I’ve been liking it so far, it’s simple and just hosts and streams music. Doesn’t have any client side apps or any tagging or smart algorithmic playlists, which is fine by me. Plenty of iOS and Android client side apps with varying features that can download. Worth checking out!
I use Plexamp with a lifetime Plex Pass subscription and love it. I mostly use it steam and keep some sonic analysis based radio stations downloaded for offline use.
I stopped using Plex when I needed an online account to access my local instance.
I use Plex with Plexamp and love it other than the forced online account, which is minor enough in my opinion that it’s been hard to justify looking for an alternative. What did you move to?
I moved to Emby, then to Jellyfin. Also, the other thing that bothered me was that with Plex I noticed I had an online account where I could access all my files. In other words, Plex was using my local data, which was the straw.
Yes there’s something particularly sketchy about an app that makes those kind of anti-user corporate decisions when it owes its popularity to the piracy community
That’s the danger of trusting a for profit company, rather than the open source community.
Yeah, I won’t lie that I don’t love it but it’s easy to swap my plex container for jellyfin if they try to enshittify
Plexamp, the app is great, but its offline/download support is not great either
I have Plex Pass and I use Plexamp. The app is very nice. The download sometimes is flaky but I personally didn’t have issues with it much.
What do you mean streaming? I have approximately half of the internet downloaded.
Hey I think I got the other half!
I have half of the internet download to my home media server which I stream from… Sounds silly in one way when I think about it, but I have tens of terras at home and not all that much space on my phone.
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This is pretty much why I never attempted to use something like Jellyfin for the music I, um, accumulated through the years. I use Spotify and Youtube these days.
I just don’t bother with all the categorizing and tagging. I just dump the files in a per album folder and that’s enough for me to find what I need.
With JF I can only advice to use Finamp, it allows you to download your albums.
I also use Jellyfin, and Finamp is the best way to listen to music with it.
It has offline download support and has come a long way since I started using it.
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I have a dedicated music player with all my favorite music for offline listening (fiio x3 and also a pinephone with lollipop)
I also have a Jellyfin server and use finamp on my phone. It isn’t public so I have an always on WireGuard vpn.
For my stereo, I have a raspberry pi hooked up. It runs mpd and mounts the same music directory as Jellyfin using nfs.
The raspberry pi also has an nfc reader and I have nfc cards with printed artwork on them. Tapping them to the reader starts playing that album.
i use airsonic for self hosting both music and audiobooks. on Android I use the dsub app
I use Roon ARC to self-host my library. It is paid, but, I bought the lifetime subscription because there is really no other music app that has the features Roon has.
Other than that, I have HiBy R3 Pro that is useless for Bluetooth, and when I’m hiking I want Bluetooth.
Wtf, lifetime subscription is $830! That’s a big gamble on the company not going bust in a year or two.
Yeah, it wasn’t always. I got it when it was cheaper.
This. I just returned to Roon after a years hiatus when I saw that this feature (streaming outside the home) had been added. And the just added “MUSE” to the streaming as well. The sales pitch for MUSE is: MUSE is the new name for Roon’s sound engine and audio processing suite. And now MUSE has landed in ARC – with bold styling and sound quality never before seen or heard in a mobile music app!
Yeah, I saw that. Equalizers are nice for some people but I literally never use them.
