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Looks like I'm an outlier here. I run navidrome on my server, but for jams on the go I use a HiFi Walker H2 dac/mp3 player with Rockbox. I sync my library from the server to the sd card when I add new music/podcasts/audiobooks. I wrote a python cli tool for the scripting.
At home I use the web interface on my laptop, and an old android (wifi only) phone connected to Bluetooth speakers for kitchen tunes.
Tempus is phenomenal. I switched to navidrome on my server to use it. Chora is also good, and I use it on my TV (works well on any screen). If you don't mind closed-source, Symphonum is excellent.
If you are using Jellyfin, it works well on PC, with Fintunes on mobile.
You can find a number of good apps for navidrome here. I quite like Strawberry, which is cross-platform. I use it locally for library management.
I connect everything with Tailscale, which may or may not work on your work network, depending on how locked down the network is. I never had an issue.
Just termux for android.
I download music using yt-dlp, then I use a few bash scripts to play/shuffle/filter etc.
Main advantage is simple playlists I can make with mkdir and symlinks.
Navidrome on my server, with Feishin as the client on my computers, and Symfonium on my phone.
Feishin has turned put to be pretty great.
Indeed. I was a bit skeptical at first, because, well...there are a lot of shitty media players out there and I'd never heard of Feishin. I did some skirt lifting and some reading and figured I'd give it a go. I used to use MusicBee, which is a pretty good media library player. MusicBee, as good as it is, lacks the...shall we say, 'candy' to it. Then I tested out Feishin, and that's thje end of the story. LOL
Way back, i used to have a Linux TV with an app called Clementine on it for music. The magic was being able to just hit play on a song and the playlist used the scrobbles for LastFM to keep the thing going. Great for evenings with friends, it was like having Spotify before Spotify existed.
Feishin does this! It tries to keep the same style going, although I now used ListenBrainz instead.
I have a local Jellyfin server and use the Jellify app when I'm out on my phone.
Booming Music for local storage, with some Bandcamp streaming and occasional YouTube playlists via NewPipe.
Navidrome server on the NAS. If I'm away from home and using a computer, I have it exposed to the internet and just use the web app.
On my home computer I've been using PsySonic lately and like it quite a bit. Quirks here and there, but it does get updates.
On my phone, and so just about everywhere, I use Symfonium. None of the FOSS apps I found last year did it for me. Symfonium is ridiculously customizable.
I have a Pandora subscription. Trying to make it play nice with Music Assistant.
VLC, I just rsync my library to my phone with a script when at home
Jellyfin as a server where my music is hosted.
Jellyfin's web client to stream on my personal laptop.
Symphonium to stream on my Android phone, and sometimes Deezer (when I want to check out new songs).
Deemix to extract songs I like from Deezer to my server.
Tailscale for external access.
On my work laptop I only listen to online radios, or I just use my phone. I guess I could connect to my server on it, but the laptop belongs to my company, so I avoid any access to my personal stuff.
Same. Except work seems to block my cloudflare tunnel so I have to use Synology reverse proxy.
I recently set up Navidrome on my home server. I listen using Symphonium. Its all basically "Spotify but my own music collection."
On my phone I use VLC player to play files that I saved on local storage. It's very rare that I do any kind of streaming on my phone, if I do I do it through Firefox.
Navidrome server.
Mobile: dsub2000
Desktop: feishin (or sometimes my own tui client)
Copy stuff from my nas to phone (cable or x-plore), play independently with pulsar+
I guess that is a way.
It is indeed and it has absolutely no dependencies, which is what I am going for.
Rock on with yo' bad self.
Just sync my files to my sd card.
Plexamp
If I'm working then normally I use the smart playlists to mix it up a little.
Navidrome server, which I access either through the web UI or through the Tempus app on Android
In my living room, Kodi. On PC, Strawberry Music Player. On android phone, Musicolet.
Feishin on Desktop. Symfonium on phone. (I can also recommend Tempo, which is open source but doesn't work over Android Auto last I tried.) To host my music I use Navidrome. Which I have setup as a docker container, behind a reverse proxy. The files are stored on my NAS. To access remotely I have Wireguard setup. That being said, to use Android Auto with Symfonium while my Navidrome is only accessible on my network or over VPN I use split tunneling otherwise Android Auto throws a fit.
I have a very similar setup. I work from home and use a tablet with symphonium for radio and my personal collection. When I'm in the car since I don't have Android Auto, I just connect my phone with the Bluetooth. And I use tailscale as the VPN.
Music Assistant most of the time. Sometimes I just use Symfonium directly but they both tap into my Navidrome server.
Moved to Apple Music after Rogan started airing on Spotify. Hence Apple Music on the phone, streaming through Cider on Arch otherwise
Edit: I could not work with local files or my own file server because of the breadth and amount of music I listen to. I’d have to have a massive collection and constantly keep buying 🤑
Navidrome + Subsonic Streamer + feishin
VLC for files in local storage.
Tempus for streaming / downloading the rest from my Navidrome instance.
In the laptop, I tried Supersonic to stream music from my server, but for some odd reason it audibly degraded sound quality, so I ditched it. I have since been using my browser. I might try it again, though, and see if the issue has been fixed.
At work, youtube with ublock origin, adblock plus, etc, preventing the ads
Sometimes I'll stream stuff from bandcamp
On the move, the SD card in my phone (with pairdrop.net to upload albums) playing through VLC
Is there a way to prevent the "are you still watching" shit on YouTube? I do the same and that's the one drawback.
Jellyfin client on mobile and AndroidTV, and Strawberry on PC. All my music is on my NAS, which Jellyfin server and CIFS/SMB can access.
Keep meaning to look into Music Assistant for Home Assistant, as I have the latter.
GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.
VLC on mobile or desktop, SD card music folder synced with desktop and server
Personal Jellyfin server for my own vinyl, CD, and cassette tape rips.
Grayjay for streaming.
Youtube music i get a discount from my phone provider.
I use Vanilla music. It was the only music player I found that would keep my place in my long running playlist that I have on shuffle all the time. It gets through all the songs, shuffles, and then queues through all the songs again, reshuffled. Other players I tested would forget the place, or that music was playing in the first place, and that was frustrating.
I stream it to my computer by connecting my phone to my computer via Bluetooth. I think it's was a new KDE feature, but now my Linux laptop will pretend to be a headset/speakers, and the Android phone will just play to it. It's so amazing. Because then I can listen to audio from both my phone and my computer at once pretty easily, and keep my spot in that one playlist I keep running. Unfortunately, it has an annoying issue where it drops out (but doesn't pause the audio) when the CPU is used too much. Lemmy post: https://programming.dev/post/45725312
When I want a more reliable setup, like when I am compiling things, I usually plug my phone into my computer and use srcpy. This can stream the android screen to the computer over ADB, but I just stream the audio, since that's all I care about.