right now I’m trying a dedicated Jellyfin instance for audio only (bought the lifetime emby subscription before i learned about jellyfin, so video is elsewhere) but having trouble finding a good client that could run on the guts of an old autonomic MMS2A. That device has an analog and digital output, which with the normal OS treated as two separate sources. is that something anyone else has tinkered with? the original plan was to just run a kodi instance with the jellyfin addon, but im not sure if this has the horsepower to run kodi, and certainly not two at once! (4gb of ram max for this beast.

i need it to be remotely controllable, it’d be cool to have easy playlist management/backup that other devices could see, and potentially an android client if possible?

I’ve dabbled with the “____sonic” ecosystem back before i was really good at linux, and struggled a bunch, before giving up without anything real to show for it.

just curious if anyone else has been down this road successfully!

thanks for this community, my scrolling stops INSTANTLY when i see a post from here.

(oh my music server is a truenas SMB share, hosted in a proxmox vm! not opposed to putting a big SSD in this device if local music would make things easier)

  • truxnell@aussie.zoneEnglish
    27·
    9 days ago

    Navidrome server, symfonium on android is amazing. I also use maloja and multi-scrobbler to caoture plays from multiple sources and keep a in-house record of my plays.

    • essell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      I got an SMB sync app on my phone, stores any new music I’ve found into the network folder and syncs it up on my phone.

      Sorted. Wherever I get more tracks from, they’re available on all my devices.

      • charles@lemmy.caEnglish
        41·
        8 days ago

        Completely agree. I paid for Symfonium after seeing a lot of people on here raving about it but I still ended up back with Plexamp. I’d be curious to hear what people find other apps do better than plexamp.

        • gajahmada@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          What did you dislike about synfonium? I’m considering switching since I don’t have a plex subscription anyway so I did not get to enjoy the sonic analysis featured etc.

          • charles@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            I can’t say there was anything that I really disliked about it, I actually really liked the app overall but I’ve been using Plexamp since basically the first public release so that just feels a bit more familiar. Plus I heavily use the sonic analysis features which I don’t believe exist outside of plexamp (please someone tell me if I’m wrong here).

  • CodandChips @lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    8 days ago

    Plex and Plexamp. I know the dislike for Plex here, but it works for me and Plexamp is a fantastic piece of kit which, in opinion is worth the lifetime sub alone.

    • JasSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      Plexamp is mind blowingly good. Great UX. Perfect reliability. No discovery/ads up in your face. Just you listening to your music how you like it. Streaming is ROCK SOLID. Downloads work flawlessly. It just relies on proper metadata in Plex.

  • mat@linux.communityEnglish
    13·
    8 days ago

    I currently host Navidrome, which has an okay web player. On Android I use “Tempo” (though it is unmaintained) to connect to it, and on Linux I use Tauon (though it has very poor playback). I could not find a native Linux client that is not buggy unfortunately, so I’m also on the lookout for better solutions! I’m not familiar with the device you are talking about but every client I tried supports MPRIS, which are the regular media controls that can be used via the playerctl command, so you should be able to hook things up that way.

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      I have just set up Navidrome from the first time and I’m using Feishin as my Linux desktop client. I installed it via nix because it isn’t in the Fedora repos as far as I could tell

      • mat@linux.communityEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        I did use Feishin for a while, it’s an excellent music player but unfortunately not a native program. I might switch back to it from Tauon though, as actually playing the whole song before going to the next is a pretty nice upgrade hehe

    • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Have you had problems on android with tempo not continuing playback?

      I also run navidrome, and have tried tempo, substreamer, and another client I can’t think of, and any of the clients that stream keep stopping playback after one song when the screen is locked.

      I’ve given the client all the permissions for running in the background and using battery that I can and no matter what I do, it’ll just stop after one song.

      I’m on a pixel 7a with gOS.

      For now I’ve settled on Poweramp with tla selection of the music on my phone since I can’t fit it all in storage. Its been really frustrating.

      • mat@linux.communityEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Hmm no, I haven’t had this issue. Tempo works fine for me, it’s been mostly bug-free except for a few oversights:

        • search doesn’t work offline
        • can’t play AAC files
        • can’t skip songs via my Pebble watch

        I’m (still) on a Pixel 3a, running LineageOS, in case that matters.

      • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Ultrasonic works fine for me, on my pixel9 with Navidrome. Plays in the background just fine as well.

      • ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Sometimes I get this error you mentioned but I’m usually driving and can’t see what track triggers this behavior but I guess this has something to do with the song format or codec. I usually just hit next and play to keep listening to my songs …

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    All my music is stored in a folder on my NAS, broken down by artist, release. It can be accessed via SMB, SFTP, Jellyfin and Plex. From there I stream to what ever device I’m using. Wireguard, Tailscale or Plex is required to stream outside my home. Navidrome sounds interesting.

    • wintermute@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      +1 for Volumio! I didn’t know it can use Jellyfin as a media source. To be fair, I just started using Jellyfin and didn’t want to migrate everything to it until being sure it will stay. So far it’s looking very good though.

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    Why do I see no mentions of Ampache here? From what I found, it was the only program except Navidrome to support nested smart playlist, and Ampache has the editor directly in the web interface.

    Anyways, I host mine too! Over 2TB of music files on my server, and it runs pretty well.

      • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Well, I don’t actually play all of them in a straight line; it’s more of an archive. Still, my main playlist is few thousand songs long, which is created with smart playlists.

      • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        I’m close to a TB myself. For me, I’m a bit of a “completionist” and can’t stand having just 2 or 3 tracks from an entire album. Every track I have is accompanied by the rest of the album it was released on.

        Sure, it means there are some duplicates at times, but it’s worth it to me.

        • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          Same. There are some tracks and albums I don’t like, but I won’t delete them. Another reason to use smart playlist, I can just put them into “Not My Style” playlist and it’s magically gone from my main list.

      • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        They’re available in Soulseek! Both Soulseek and Ampache share the same directory. I was thinking of creating a torrent, but I am still in the process of deduplicating them, so I decided against it.

        • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          slsk and nicotine+ have been so cool for so long!

          i feel bad when im likely destroying someone’s uploads because i found a hidden treasure of FLACs from some older or obscure artists

    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Damn, and I thought my 30k plus tracks was pretty large. I use Navidrome as a server and slskd as well

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    I just keep all of my music in an NFS share on my NAS and play it with Rhythmbox or VLC. I keep a compressed copy on the SD card in my phone to listen to when I’m not home.