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submitted 3 months ago by xelar@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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[-] antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 months ago

Navidrome on my server, with Feishin as the client on my computers, and Symfonium on my phone.

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Feishin has turned out to be pretty great.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Seems to be a very active dev team. I get updates regularly.

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[-] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 11 points 3 months ago

Navidrome server, which I access either through the web UI or through the Tempus app on Android

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] B0NK3RS@lazysoci.al 8 points 3 months ago

Plexamp

If I'm working then normally I use the smart playlists to mix it up a little.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] vext01@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

Just sync my files to my sd card.

[-] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Navidrome server.

Mobile: dsub2000

Desktop: feishin (or sometimes my own tui client)

[-] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] nfms@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] uuj8za@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

Streaming server: Navidrome

Desktop client: Navidrome web

Android client: Symfonium

[-] Socket462@feddit.it 5 points 3 months ago

Almost the same as you, except I use Feishin as a desktop client

[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Finamp on my phone, it's working perfectly with my online Jellyfin server that I use on PC.

[-] AmyAye@nord.pub 4 points 3 months ago

I recently set up Navidrome on my home server. I listen using Symphonium. Its all basically "Spotify but my own music collection."

[-] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 points 3 months ago

Same. Except work seems to block my cloudflare tunnel so I have to use Synology reverse proxy.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Copy stuff from my nas to phone (cable or x-plore), play independently with pulsar+

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[-] Strider@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It is indeed and it has absolutely no dependencies, which is what I am going for.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Rock on with yo' bad self.

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[-] eksb@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Music Folder Player, the only good player I've found in all these years. I'm not streaming.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Don't use an app, just Swing Music

[-] Steve@communick.news 2 points 3 months ago

GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] TomAwezome@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

VLC on mobile or desktop, SD card music folder synced with desktop and server

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] KingKong33@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Is there a way to prevent the "are you still watching" shit on YouTube? I do the same and that's the one drawback.

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[-] fpslem@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Booming Music for local storage, with some Bandcamp streaming and occasional YouTube playlists via NewPipe.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

always locally hosted on my device

I also use Internet radio to listen to new stuff

[-] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Roon on the server and ARC on the phone

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