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SD Card on my phone. i don't stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.
edit don't look for solutions to problems you don't have. most ppl don't NEED to stream everything over the internet.
go back to local.
The only reason I still have a s20fe. The last of the sd card phones... sigh
I’m currently waiting for my Fairphone 6 to arrive, but I believe the sim tray includes a spot for an SD card. I was also recently using a Furi Labs FLX1, which also had an SD card slot. There are other options out there. 😊
ppl will find a way. i'm on a Mudita Kompakt. XD
I have over 3 TB of music. SD cards aren't quite that big yet.
sure, then in your case, if you absolutely must have access to it all at one time, then home streaming makes sense.
for me, and i do imagine most ppl (tho i could be wrong!), it doesn't make sense compared to just returning to local.
genius that i am, i only realized that AFTER i setup a jellyfin server on my home server for streaming my music. XD derp.
I use navidrome. And what's nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.
In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.
how does this work for you? i was on gonic but moved back to navidrome to allow for mopidy to let home assistant trigger playlists directly (with the mpd integration)
but i haven't figured out the smart playlists yet
I have a few smart playlists set up that are each various genres of music. It's not perfect, but it works well enough.
that's a great use case!
whts yr slsk info? lol
You'll know it when you find it. 🤣
muahaha.. daw
my library is already tough to sift through.
20,000 mainly flacs and it's still less than 500gb
I have about 85k tracks. :)
gosh!
Indeed. My collection is on my phone's memory, my old phone "music player", and just a back up SD card in my laptop.
I use a DAP with an SD card on the go, because my whole collection is lossless and I like fidelity. However, it's convenient to be able to stream music to my TV while doing house chores, in addition to allowing family access.
the family bit is key i think for needing a home server. some TVs you can do via BT to the phone.
but if you're setting it up anyway for your family, then yeah, best to organize around the server.
good luck to you!
Another option if you don't have a family is to use DLNA for streaming to the TV, most TV's have native support for that and you can just set up your computer to work as a DLNA server.
So you only listen to music on one device? If not, do you swap the SD card between devices all the time or do you have a separate SD card for all devices? How do you keep them in sync, transfer playlists, etc? What if you have more than 2TB?
Yeah, go local as in: Run your own media server and stream from that.
But only keeping music files on the end device is a step in the wrong direction.
I do use a media server but I could probably get away with just syncthing to sync my computer and phone, it would probably be easier even. Of course, if you have more than 2tb and you want it all at your fingertips then a media server is probably the right call.
i listen on two devices: my phone and my PC.
depends on ppl's use cases. a home media server is over-engineered solution for me, and perhaps others. but it's good to stop for second and consider what one's needs actually are.
I hate the kid-pidgin, but you make a really good point here:
I mean, this is always excellent.
Too often - you'll see it in this comment thread - we go all out and show our own solution would fit OP's case. And to them it must sound like "if you want a coke from the sev(7-eleven, like circle-k, Ted) you're gonna need a van, a really big spring, a holocaust cloak and a wheelbarrow for sure."
Considering OP's situation, skill level, fuckery tolerance and perseverance is key. Resilio could be all they need, here -- Not elegant, not D.R.Y, not pretty, but its fuckery is low (good g.o.l.f number), but it could be fire-and-forget.
Now, I'm not sure you're not replying to a comment that says the same thing ...just, not as well. Still good advice.
Right, but considering that OP is already running a media server and also is looking for a way to curated his library, I don't see how switching to on-device storage would be anything but a downgrade.
up to OP. i read it as "i wanted to go all in on Jellyfin, but it's been a PITA. what else would you suggest?"
Yes... Which is OP is already using a streaming solution, clearly that's the chosen direction.
mate... ppl can change their minds. i did.