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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

right now I'm trying a dedicated Jellyfin instance for audio only (bought the lifetime emby subscription before i learned about jellyfin, so video is elsewhere) but having trouble finding a good client that could run on the guts of an old autonomic MMS2A. That device has an analog and digital output, which with the normal OS treated as two separate sources. is that something anyone else has tinkered with? the original plan was to just run a kodi instance with the jellyfin addon, but im not sure if this has the horsepower to run kodi, and certainly not two at once! (4gb of ram max for this beast.

i need it to be remotely controllable, it'd be cool to have easy playlist management/backup that other devices could see, and potentially an android client if possible?

I've dabbled with the "____sonic" ecosystem back before i was really good at linux, and struggled a bunch, before giving up without anything real to show for it.

just curious if anyone else has been down this road successfully!

thanks for this community, my scrolling stops INSTANTLY when i see a post from here.

(oh my music server is a truenas SMB share, hosted in a proxmox vm! not opposed to putting a big SSD in this device if local music would make things easier)

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I use Jellyfin with FinAmp for Android. Even supports offline caching.

[-] truxnell@aussie.zone 18 points 1 month ago

Navidrome server, symfonium on android is amazing. I also use maloja and multi-scrobbler to caoture plays from multiple sources and keep a in-house record of my plays.

[-] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Symfonium looks amazing except for the part where you need a google play account to use it. It literally has every feature I've been looking for.

[-] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I've found Tempo to be one of the better alternatives you can find on f-droid

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I use it and like its UI but it doesn't properly support offline, you can just download single tracks. By proper offline support I mean something like Audinaut, which unfortunately doesn't work in new Android versions

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Just use AuroraStore to avoid google play account. You can even pay the Symfonium creator through a hacky workarround and get your full access without Google Play.

That's an official way you can read it on Symfoniums forum somwhere !

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[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
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[-] mat@linux.community 8 points 1 month ago

I currently host Navidrome, which has an okay web player. On Android I use "Tempo" (though it is unmaintained) to connect to it, and on Linux I use Tauon (though it has very poor playback). I could not find a native Linux client that is not buggy unfortunately, so I'm also on the lookout for better solutions! I'm not familiar with the device you are talking about but every client I tried supports MPRIS, which are the regular media controls that can be used via the playerctl command, so you should be able to hook things up that way.

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[-] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Navidrome, Feishin, Tempo.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All my music is stored in a folder on my NAS, broken down by artist, release. It can be accessed via SMB, SFTP, Jellyfin and Plex. From there I stream to what ever device I'm using. Wireguard, Tailscale or Plex is required to stream outside my home. Navidrome sounds interesting.

[-] carloshr@lile.cl 7 points 1 month ago

I'm a very satisfied #jellyfin user. I have my music and movie files shared there. I use different clients: a rpi 5 with kodi and jellydin plugin; an old RPI B with volumio; in android, finamp and also share with dlna.

@SidewaysHighways @selfhosted

[-] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

+1 for Volumio! I didn't know it can use Jellyfin as a media source. To be fair, I just started using Jellyfin and didn't want to migrate everything to it until being sure it will stay. So far it's looking very good though.

[-] carloshr@lile.cl 2 points 1 month ago

Yes. There is a plugin to use jellyfin as a source in volumio. It's the best.

@wintermute @selfhosted

[-] ari_verse@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

My use case: collection based on single-flac + cuesheets, thousands, many of which are HD. Setup: all the music is in an NFS share in my HTPC, which also runs Kodi (flatpak) for both video and audio media. That machine is connected to my main audio setup via USB DAC.

The Kodi music DB is hosted externally in mariaDB in the same server. I use 2 headless Kodi (OSMC) clients with HiFiBerry DACs as streamers around the house, using the same DB/media. Lastly I also have an Nvidia Shield running Kodi also exposing the same collection/DB.

Over the years I have tested many alternatives, including navidrome, volumio, and others, but they all struggle handling my music collection, choke processing cuesheets or don't even support them, or can't handle NFS reliably or at all, or can't process 24 bit content etc.

I couldn't find any solution nearly as reliable, performant or flexible as this one. I use this setup pretty much daily. With incremental improvements, it's been running for more than 10 years.

Each Kodi client can be managed via its web interface (a little dated but fully functional and reliable), amd via Android app (I use Yatse).

The main server also exposes the music collection via DLNA.

I looked at jellyfin/Plex in the past as well but for muy use case, it's over-complicated and didn't add value.

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i do love me some Kodi/libreELEC!

how hard is it to stand up a headless kodi? this would still work with jellyfin with addon, but it might be REALLY FUN to install a kodi addon with no screen

also i am having trouble hunting down what cuesheets means in this context?

[-] 486@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

also i am having trouble hunting down what cuesheets means in this context?

When you rip an audio CD you can either create one file for each track or you can rip the entire CD as one track and create a cue sheet file which is basically a text file describing where each track starts in that single audio file. This can be useful to have an exact copy of the CD without adding unintended gaps between tracks. It is primarily useful if you intend on recreating the actual audio CD at a later time from the ripped data. Most people don't need this.

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[-] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 month ago

Plex Server + Plexamp.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 month ago

I just torrent the sht out of it. And put it on a USB stick. And plug it into my car. That's it.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) in directories and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time "mplayer *" is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don't understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

I host my media on a bookshelf and play it through a stereo

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[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Music folder on a network share. Navidrome and plex and jellyfin all have access to that library, then pick your poison for the client app. Plex is also DLNA enabled so my dumber AVR can access it too. I mostly use tempo app on android though. I'm a pinch, I can use navidromes web UI player to listen. The plex and jellyfin are mainly just a backup and overkill cause I can't make up my mind.

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

I just keep all of my music in an NFS share on my NAS and play it with Rhythmbox or VLC. I keep a compressed copy on the SD card in my phone to listen to when I'm not home.

[-] spyd4r@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

I just use syncthing to copy music to my phone sd card.

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[-] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Hosted on Jellyfin, Feishin on laptop and Finamp on mobile.

[-] Object@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why do I see no mentions of Ampache here? From what I found, it was the only program except Navidrome to support nested smart playlist, and Ampache has the editor directly in the web interface.

Anyways, I host mine too! Over 2TB of music files on my server, and it runs pretty well.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

2TB? How!

Currently sat on 5GB across 920 files

[-] Object@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, I don't actually play all of them in a straight line; it's more of an archive. Still, my main playlist is few thousand songs long, which is created with smart playlists.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 month ago

Wow. Maybe create some torrents out of your collection? 😉

[-] Object@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're available in Soulseek! Both Soulseek and Ampache share the same directory. I was thinking of creating a torrent, but I am still in the process of deduplicating them, so I decided against it.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Uncompressed flac? That's a shit ton of music...

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[-] Codandchips@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Plex and Plexamp. I know the dislike for Plex here, but it works for me and Plexamp is a fantastic piece of kit which, in opinion is worth the lifetime sub alone.

[-] a@91268476.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

@SidewaysHighways @selfhosted I use navidrome which is incredibly solid and boring in a good way. Playsub or Amperfy as iOS client, web or supersonic for desktop.

If you want to stick to jellyfin, Manet is probably the best client for music

[-] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Another vote for Navidrome here, i use the Tempo android client for it and i use the feishin web front end for desktop because it's better than the default navidrome web front end.

[-] Zykino@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Nextcloud.

And a subsonic app. There is also another protocol available so you have quite the choice for which you prefer. Currently using Tempo.

[-] 4k93n2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

after using jellyfin and emby for a long while ive gone back to basics, just local mp3s synced between devices using syncthing

something like KDE Connect might work for remote control as long as you are able to install it on both devices

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Emby. It is so far, the nicest music client on iOS that I’ve been able to find.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

I was going to try to host my music on Jellyfin, but I had an issue.

Since 2005 I’ve been curating my music collection with my old iPod that I still use.

I like my albums in release order so, with the iPod in mind, probably 80% of them are named [year] - [album]

Lidarr and Jellyfin won’t find them because of this and I don’t want to manually sort through 2000-some albums.

So I still use my iPod (20 years old next year!)

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[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 1 month ago

I use Funkwhale, which I have liked, but my use case is just streaming music through my laptop and listening with headphones. I don't think there is a client available that will run on your Autonomic streamer.

Funkwhale does have a subsonic API, so you could use a subsonic client, but you mentioned that didn't quite work before. (Is that what you mean by __sonic? I haven't actually heard that term.)

Funkwhale is nice, but I think for most people it doesn't (yet) offer any useful features beyond what Navidrome has, and probably even lacks a few things that Navidrome has. Funkwhale's main appeal is that you can follow someone's music library via the fediverse, although there hasn't really been a lot of use for that so far. Version 2 is coming soon, though, and adds a whole bunch of new fediverse features.

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

that sounds cool! fediverse shit sounds great!

yeah my memory may be failing me but i seem to recall a bunch of things using an API with sonic in it i was lazy!

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I like using rygel currently, just run it by command line and media folders are available over the network. Any device with VLC can see it on the network and play.

[-] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I share a Spotify family plan with friends, but I use Zotify to make backups, which I then host in Jellyfin.

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