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.

  • Eris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • davad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      +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.

      • CrashingMonkies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Another +1 for Plexamp. It’s enjoyable and easy to use and they’re very actively developing and supporting it.

  • suth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Plexamp, the app is great, but its offline/download support is not great either

  • Outfield7687@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • gabe565@lemmy.cook.ggEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        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?

        • TheCakeWasNoLie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          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.

      • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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

      • ultimate_question@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        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

  • Wildfire6297@lemmy.oneEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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!

  • Daniele@feddit.itEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • NonDollarCurrency@monero.townEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I use Navidrome as the backend and DSub to connect to it. When I’m on the go I use a site-to-site wireguard VPN connection back to my server to listen to music and it also caches the songs so even if I don’t have reception I can still listen to my music.

    • persimoirre@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Similar setup for me: Navidrome container on my NAS, DSub or Symfonium on Android, and Wireguard for music while I run.

        • jimyt666@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          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

          • NonDollarCurrency@monero.townEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            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.

    • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.comEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • NonDollarCurrency@monero.townEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • scholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • PlexSheep@feddit.deEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    What do you mean streaming? I have approximately half of the internet downloaded.

    • AyyLMAO@exploding-heads.comEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • annoyedcamel@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • TheCakeWasNoLie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • fitgse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • dlundh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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!

  • Okurok@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I use Emby(jellyfin broke with the amount of music i have and couldn’t parse it properly so i actually bought Emby subscription) + Symphonium on Android. Just checked, full album download worked for me

    Symphonium actually works with Jellyfin and has trial period so you can check it out

    • mad_asshatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      +1 Symphonium

      I stream my music 4 ways (redundancy ftw!)

      MPD (Music Player Daemon, with its own http engine, plus icecast)

      I run Airsonic (Navidrome) as well as Jellyfin.

      Also, ibroadcast.com

      cheers