Airsonic or Navidrome server, plus one of the various Subsonic apps. I like Substreamer or Dsub but there are plenty of other options.
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Like others have stated. Navidrome. It's the only open sources backend I've found to properly handle my ~14TB music library without having performance issues.
Symfonium
What didn't you like about it?
That's what I'm using after looking at a bunch of other options based on my requirements, and while I didn't want to go with a closed source, paid app, it does everything.
Except working without play services, that is, and some of us aren't fans of having those around.
According to the dev, Play Services is only needed for casting:
"...you only need play services for Chromecast." SOURCE, replying to a GrapheneOS user
He even offers an option to install without the play store (via Aurora) and to contact him for the license. SOURCE
Tnx!
I use Finamp with my Jellyfin library for simplicity’s sake. Other things probably have better UI and such, but it’s nice to just dump all my media in my Jellyfin folders and move on.
navidrome + Symfonium
Just use this. It's by far the best option
After trying a couple apps with Jellyfin for a bit, I switched to Ultrasonic with Navidrome and never looked back.
My read on Jellyfin is that it's probably better suited for TV and movies than it is for music.
What features are you missing in Finamp? I would say it's pretty freaking good. Although I don't have any experience with Plex and its clients.
Not OP, but when I was looking for an alternative it was the music analysis and Auto-Playlist/DJ features that set Plexamp apart.
I agree, the DJ and playlist features are pretty great. Definitely what I missed when trying Finamp. If anyone has another suggestion that does similar I'm game to try. Just to try and start to divest from Plex.
I see, this sounds very good indeed!
I like Finamp, but one thing that comes to mind is if I try to reorder the tracks on the queue, it doesn't work as expected. It moves different tracks instead, it's very buggy.
I was going to say that Finamp doesn't support offline filtering by artists, but when looking for the open issue I just found out the beta does support this! Awesome!
I'm running an airsonic-advanced server and use the tempo app on android https://github.com/CappielloAntonio/tempo
And supersonic on linux & windows: https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic?tab=readme-ov-file
reiterating that Navidrome is superb, it just... never stops working, I'm always shocked how reliable it is to be honest, no matter what I throw at it
I also love Tempo on android (find it on Fdroid)
I use navidrome + tempo and I'm happy with them..sometimes I feel like the shuffle function is not that great..I get some tracks way more often than others but then I just press next..
I really like Tempo so far. I haven't tried it in my car yet. But I'm missing a widget
Amperfy
I'm using Jellyfin + Synfonium, the offline caching is brilliant.
I switched from aAirsonic to Navidrome recently and I wouldn't go back, Symohonium to listen on Android
@carloshr @ev1lchris @selfhosted "symfonium" is amazing on android. It is for pay, $3.99, but I found it worth it. It gets updates relentlessly and is amazing. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.symfonik.music.player
I use emby for my entire media collection, including music.