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?
Dude, there are multiple replies for Symfonium. $5, and 100% worth every penny.
Today I learned that Jellyfin does music. Had Jellyfin and Navidrome both for years, never even tried sticking my music library into Jellyfin. I use Substreamer on my Androids.
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.
Edit: I forgot to mention all the frontend choices. Many frontends work for both apps, but I believe subsonic clients have more options.
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Thank you :)
I haven’t tried navidrome, but my only gripe with jellyfin for music is that I can’t find any non-subscription apps that work with android auto (if someone wants to point at one, let me know!)
I know jellyfin itself at least used to have android auto compatibility, but it was absolute shit and didn’t have even some of the basic music controls when I tried, and I am unsure if any version of the app still has that even.
Have you checked out Symfonium? Love that for music streamed from Jellyfin, and it has Android Auto listed in the settings, although I haven’t used that yet.
Yes, it is good, but i will not spend money on the play store.
I understand the Big Tech revulsion, I’m a hardcore, privacy-first self-hoster 10 years deep, but the app was like 5 bucks one time and it’s been my daily driver for about 3 years now. It tops every other android *sonic app. It has multiple backend sources so if you change your media server down the line, Symfonium will connect to it. TOTALLY WORTH THE MONEY!
I honestly dont listen to music enough for it to be worth it to me, but it definitely looked clean and worked well when I tried it.
I just wish it wasnt the only worthwhile option.
Navidrome for easy UPnP. Symphonium on Android. Foobar2000 on windows. Deadbeef on Linux.
I have a bunch of WiiM Mini devices and this setup works well for multi room playback.
WiiM Mini
For a moment i thought this was a version of the Nintendo console and was like omg
🤣 I always think of Weeeeeeeeeeen
Whichever you go with, I highly recommend looking into https://github.com/NeptuneHub/AudioMuse-AI, which does analysis on your music so you can generate playlists/mixes from a specific song or from moods/genres
The making of playlists sounds interesting. Typically I never make any. I just have a all songs and random all and let the skitzo dice roll.
JF is for all of my media, I do have navidrome for music in addition to JF though (they sit side by side and share access to the same music media directories), in part because I have some other stuff I put together to work with navidrome a while ago, and I don’t feel like changing it. Otherwise you can pretty much just use JF.
I was planning on having them run side by side. I feel that would give me more options on clients for mobile and desktop, but I am still searching the idea and execution.
So what I’ll recommend first is to pick a naming strategy, and manage your files. You can do this in a few ways, what I’ll recommend is beets.
You want to do this first so youre scanning a library that won’t undergo massive changes.
Both JF and Navidrome are just playing back in this scenario, so once they are clean and in the right directory structure, you can just map the library there for both.
Thats really about it. What do you need help on with the execution?
What do you need help on with the execution?
I guess I am still in a bit of a research phase. I figured it would be fun to talk with the community about my current set up, I am always open to critiques, and see what other non-navidrome solutions come up as I might like them more.
I am planning to go with docker to install them, as that is also how the rest of my set up is done, so I don’t think I will find too many issues getting that running.
Should be pretty straightforward!
I think you’ll find a lot of folks here do JF and/or Navidrome, they play nicely together
If you want to see some neat options, you may want to check out Funkwhale and see if its up your alley
I’ve used Funkwhale, and I really enjoy it for what it can offer (multiple radios, playlists, and libraries for different types of users) but if you’re not really willing to share your music in the Fediverse, I’d go with JF or Navidrome.
If you don’t really care about an all-in-one media player with a GUI, you could serve your music on gonic and then pick the frontend of your choice. It handles podcast subs, online radio, scrobbling, etc. it also plays well with subsonic clients and beets plugins.
I’ll definitely take a look.
Can’t help with Jellyfin, tho there are many here who use it, so maybe someone will chime in. I do use Navidrome, and it checks all my boxes. It’s a pretty comprehensive package, and recently they have introduced a plug in environment. I have not got into the plug ins yet. If your music collection is rather haphazard, I’d recommend Beets. Turn it loose on your music collection and let it do it’s thing.
If your music collection is rather haphazard, I’d recommend Beets. Turn it loose on your music collection and let it do it’s thing.
Good to know. I used to have a rather disorganized collection. I like to use Strawberry Music Player on my laptop and it can fetch album covers and metadata.
