I am at my wits end with this and kindly ask for assistance.
I cannot for the life of me decide on how to set up my music library for the foreseeable future:
- I started out having my library on my local pc, managed by MediaMonkey
- As I bought a NAS, I moved my library to it and used Navidrome to stream it to an android app (Synfonium)
- This meant that I’d lose the MediaMonkey management, but I thought for now I’d just manually transfer new songs/playlists over to the NAS when needed
- As I started streaming with Navidrome, I noticed that the speeds were really bad and music often buffered (no idea why, Jellyfin works fine), so I cached all the songs offline
- This made me think that I don’t even need Navidrome since at that point I could just copy the music files to my phone if they’re gonna be offline anyway, but then I don’t have a backup on the NAS
And now I’m kinda lost, unsure what the best way to handle this is. I’d like to keep MediaMonkey in the flow for library and playlist management, and streaming is pretty cool for those times where I’m listening on other devices. However, having the music on my NAS just seems to create an extra middleman. What’s most important to me is a smooth mobile experience, with a good UI and no interruptions, as that is where I listen to music 95% of the time.
How do you do it ? Any suggestions for how to future proof my setup without too much of a hassle (still kinda new to all this stuff)? For reference I don’t have a huge music library, maybe a few dozen GB, so it still fits easily on my phone.
Sorry if this was too long or doesn’t fit the subreddit, but I hope someone can enlighten me.
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Why not just use Jellyfin if you said it works fine?
I meant streaming shows with Jellyfin works fine, so I don’t see why streaming music shouldn’t work at least as well. I don’t like using streaming clients such as Plex or Jellyfin for music, they just feel quite unpolished.
Plex has the PlexAmp
Symfonium works with Jellyfin. ;)
I thought its Finamp that works with Jellyfin. Is that just alternative of Symfonium?
I don’t stream music often, but never had issues with Finamp
Symfonium works with most everything. It’s the most full featured by far too.
Its proprietary though, right?
I haven’t seen what license it’s under, but it’s not free though so I assume it’s closed source as well.
If your music fits on your phone, you could just use Syncthing on your NAS and phone to simplify the process of adding new music to your phone.
Ah come on - they haven’t released a phone with 2TB of space yet. /s
I see the /s but you can always only sync a subset of your music.
It’s all or nothing bro! ;)
I’m not familiar with MediaMonkey so this may not be an option but…
I’ve used Subsonic for a number of years as my streaming server. I don’t use tools to manage my files but one of the things I really like about Subsonic is that it will present the local file system structure to the clients (rather than only relying on ID3 tags). So if I create a directory called “1990s” it will show up in the Subsonic hierarchy (eventually - it scans periodically for new files).
I’m assuming you could use MediaMonkey to manage the files on your NAS over CIFS? Then Subsonic could just read the filesystem over NFS as well and serve what you have setup.
Subsonic clients offer the option to cache files or stream as well which is great for traveling.
Plex or Jellyfin. I’m currently using Plex but will likely be migrating to Jellyfin at some point.
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Personally, I would go the Navidrome route. Figure out what the issue is, it’s likely that your router is fucking shit up.
Look at syncthing, set a directory with your music on your desktop/laptop , sync to phone, profit…
This is what I do. I manage my music with MusicBee and sync a subset of the library to a folsee which is then synced with my phone.
Airsonic Advanced and DSUB on Android are pretty good options since DSUB has advanced local caching options.
I aquire my music then run it through Picard for tagging which places it into my NAS where it is mounted to airsonic and jellyfin containers for consumption.
The jellyfin apps have gotten a lot better and I find myself using feishin and finamp more often lately.
Ultrasonic works in the same way as DSub.
I feel this post a bit.
I’m halfway through getting the id3 tags right on 40gb of music I pulled from an old iPod I have in the car.
I’m using music brainz I think it’s called, which uses media monkey as a backend. I’m scanning my library into this app and it’s putting the tracks into album files (they’re just chucked in artists folders at the mo, the iPod fucked the naming) and getting all the tags right.
Now I have this library on a NAS which I’ve pointed Squeezebox at in the house, and outside I use Plex Amp.
While I’m running the files through the music Brainz app thing, I’m seeing all the albums appearing in there instead of 1 album with 300 tracks.
Anyway long answer short, I’m having no issues with Plex Amp, just point Plex at your music and download the Plex Amp app
I have not been quite satisfied with any of the self hosted streaming solutions or apps. There’s always an annoyance I have with all of them.
Just using MusicBee and syncing a subset of my library to my phone has worked the best. Syncing it using SyncThing.
If you have some times, you could try my new Opensubsonic server, which is written with performance in mind (I’ve tried to do a lot of things in compile-time) especially if you are transcoding the song a lot.
How much music do you have that you actually listen to a lot on your phone?
Most phones are over 200 gigs now so you should have plenty of room to just store it on your phone.
Also, when the bombs go off, wouldn’t it be nice to have your favorite song on your phone so you can listen to it one last time before the darkness creeps in?
I have no issues with Jellyfin + Symfonium, but I also cache my songs offline. I almost never play a track that hasn’t been downloaded.
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