What apps do you use to listen music at work/on phone?
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Is it your local server, which streams music for your PC and phone? Is it something else?
What about streaming music from your server to your work laptop?
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Don’t use an app, just Swing Music
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.
Just sync my files to my sd card.
Working at home: mpd + ncmpc on my personal laptop.
At the office: mpd + malp on my phone.
No streaming. I buy CDs and vinyl and rip them and download live recordings, and only listen to entire albums or concerts.
Navidrome server, which I access either through the web UI or through the Tempus app on Android
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.
GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.
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: 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.
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.
I’m just curious about the reason for both a reverse proxy and wireguard? If using a proxy (Nginx/etc), I would expect it to be exposed to the internet.
The reverse proxy is infernal. I type sub.domain.tld to get to my internal site. All with automated certs.
Makes it so I dont have to remember IP and port combos
Makes sense, I do something similar but just for things I want to access externally. I started adding some internal only ones but ultimately decided I was too lazy to remember the names and already knew the IPs/ports.
I use a combination of a custom built Caddy Docker container, Technitium for DNS, and DNSWeaver.
Automated DNS Entries, Automated Reverse Proxy entries all with Docker labels.
Sounds like an awesome setup, but I’ll stick with remembering the IP:port, its just easier for me to remember numbers than whatever words I used when I set it up.
Hey all good by me. Different setups for different folk!
Youtube music i get a discount from my phone provider.
Personal Jellyfin server for my own vinyl, CD, and cassette tape rips.
Grayjay for streaming.
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.
Ah, that I don’t know.
I spend a lot of time listening to a “Live” stream and that doesn’t seem to have thst problem… but if I listen to a playlist, yeah I have that problem.
However, I often have to stop to speak to someone / get coffee, so that seems to reset the timer so it’s not toooo bad for me
Makes sense, I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks!
VLC on mobile or desktop, SD card music folder synced with desktop and server
Plexamp
If I’m working then normally I use the smart playlists to mix it up a little.
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.
I’m more and more leaning to this solution. I only have a 8GB phone data plan, and refuse to waste any of it on my recreational music listening, nor will I ever see the need for paying for more mobile data.
My next phone needs a microsd slot, I miss them so much!
Yes it’s one of those things they removed to upsell internal storage.
Also, with music on the phone itself you’ll never have communication issues while playing.
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.
I recently set up Navidrome on my home server. I listen using Symphonium. Its all basically “Spotify but my own music collection.”
Navidrome + Subsonic Streamer + feishin
Music Assistant most of the time. Sometimes I just use Symfonium directly but they both tap into my Navidrome server.
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.
In my living room, Kodi. On PC, Strawberry Music Player. On android phone, Musicolet.
VLC, I just rsync my library to my phone with a script when at home
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.
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 🤑
I have a Pandora subscription. Trying to make it play nice with Music Assistant.
Booming Music for local storage, with some Bandcamp streaming and occasional YouTube playlists via NewPipe.
I have a local Jellyfin server and use the Jellify app when I’m out on my phone.
Navidrome on my server, with Feishin as the client on my computers, and Symfonium on my phone.
Feishin has turned out 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.
Seems to be a very active dev team. I get updates regularly.
This is my exact setup! I love symfonium because it lets me download specific playlists that I want to have at all times (in case of bad cell service), and feishin for my laptop/desktop where offline downloads aren’t a concern.
I am still keeping an eye on Tempus though, if it gets good enough I might swap over since it’d be one less google play store app.
Symfonium’s dev supports a Google-free activation method. You have to have F-Droid, add a specific repository, install Synfonium from there, make a donation to the project on Ko-fi, then message the dev with details of the donation and your installation ID so it can be activated. A bit clunky but better than nothing.
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.
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 syncing.
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.
Hoo boy I wanted the full 2000’s download individual songs and organize them on your device experience so I spent too much time finding apps for each step.
Seal - lets you download videoes if you have a video link, like a youtube video
zarchiver - gives you better file management and control than most standard smart phone OS obfuscation bullshit. use it to rename and organize your downloads
Aimp - allows you to make playlists and play your music
Is it the fastest way? nope is it even good? probably not but there are no commercials, its all on your phone, and you only have to organize it once
Give New Pipe and / or PipePipe a go, I use them to download just the audio from youtube (can do the video too of course…)
I also use Ghost Commander and Material Files to help organise files…
All of these are on F-Droid if you wanted to try them out.
Music Folder Player, the only good player I’ve found in all these years. I’m not streaming.
Streaming server: Navidrome
Desktop client: Navidrome web
Android client: Symfonium
Almost the same as you, except I use Feishin as a desktop client
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Im just using Symphony to play my local files on phone which sync with my server over synchting whenever I add some new tracks. My “Server” is to slow for streaming…
always locally hosted on my device
I also use Internet radio to listen to new stuff
Tried selfhosting for a while but didnt quite flop my mop. Now paying for Qobuz which works great!
I ditched qobuz last week because they kept pushing hard for Brazilian music, which I don’t listen to really, in from Portugal and mainly listen to hip hop, jazz, soul and r&b. So in a couple hours I got a new setup with Navidrome, soulseek, symphonium on my phone, feishin on my desktops, listenbrainz for playlists recommendation, audiomuse, very happy
Pixelplayer
Roon on the server and ARC on the phone
Well, they certainly know how to sell it. I’d start a trial if I got 60 days worth of nugs.
Finamp on my phone, it’s working perfectly with my online Jellyfin server that I use on PC.
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I use Navidrome on the server side
Tempus on Android (maintained fork of Tempo)
Feishin on desktop
I also recently set up music assistant to try and stream my music to my TV too, although I haven’t used it yet beyond just testing and don’t see myself using it too much
I scrobble my Navidrome up to ListenBrainz too, which then gives weekly recommendations to add to my collection.
Holy shit I almost thought I posted a comment and then somehow forgot about it. Are you me?
Ok well, I don’t really listen on TV nor do I have a music assistant, but I do have Jelly on my TV for my family.
But I LOVE Feishin so much, it’s absolutely gorgeous.
this is exactly what I do, though recently I also started using cliamp at work mostly because I’m already in the terminal so much
I use LMS (Lightweight Music Server) on my server with the web interface to play on the desktop. It also scrobble to listenbrainz for discovery but I have to say, the weekly suggestions that hits my RSS feed, is music I already have. So not that great, at least for now.
On mobile I use Ultrasonic that downloads music on the phone as it plays the tracks. So the offline use is “automatic”.
Are you sure you’re subscribing to the correct feed? ListenBrainz gives two different feeds, one is a “weekly(maybe daily?) Mix” consisting of your own music, and another that is recommendations of music it doesn’t know you have.
Occasionally a song I have slips into the latter because it hasn’t been scrobbled yet, but otherwise the recommendations are reasonably good and I’ll decide to grab maybe 30-50% of them
Well, I’ll check it out. Maybe you have a point.
I do get recommendations with bands/songs I don’t have in my collection. However, they are maybe 3-4 entries with the rest that I have. Its weekly recommendations because I get it every Monday.
But I’ll have a look see. Thank you for the head’s up.
I personally just use local music playback, with SyncThing for syncing between devices. That mean I can listen to them offline!
On Android, I use Auxio, but Lotus and Chocola (previously CuteMusic) are awesome too.
On Linux, I use an mpd-based option called rmpc. Tauon and Gapless are also great! As for mobile Linux, Gapless is a good option that works pretty well. You might also like Plattenalbum, a GTK-based MPD client.
Musicolet or vlc on my android. 100GB of local music on my SD card I have collected since I was a kid.