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Full disclosure, I'm pretty new to selfhosting myself, and I haven't written a guide like this before, but hopefully this scatterbrained writeup is enough for someone out there lmao

This is just what works for me and how I set it up. Always open to ideas for improvement as well.

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[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is symfonium foss? Been looking for a good navifrome frontend for android.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Dsub2000 and Tempo are active FOSS alternatives.

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[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Anyone have suggestions for an iOS media player I can connect to a setup like this?

[–] windowsphoneguy@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For Jellyfin I really like Manet and Finamp

[–] krcr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I like Amperfy and I think Navidrome has a Subsonic API: https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yup, been porting all my music to navidrome the past few months and it's pretty sweet. I like that there are native subsonic apps for most platforms (using tempo on android at the moment) and that navidrome also comes with its own web player to use on the fly.

Although my setup is much more simple, just using samba to get files to it and mp3tag to prepare the files if needed.
I initially used nextcloud with its music plugin (includes subsonic server) and its basically remote access + player + server in one, but its not as good imo. I'd rather use software that focuses on one thing and does it well.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I use a Navidrome server and ProjectBlue app on my Android. I haven't figured out how to download music for offline use by using my ProjectBlue app though.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So the first sentence says TV and movie streaming replacement is trivial... Can you elaborate for someone who still uses the pirate bay for movies?

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Was just thinking about doing this over the weekend cuz youtube music's offline functionality seems to have gone down drastically.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good write up. Spotify is the lsdt for me to replace

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

For me it's YouTube.

[–] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quickly read through the writeup, excellent work. I've been meaning to do something similar to this but haven't been able to properly commit the time to do the research required to make it all play nice.

I'll be doing this sometime soon 👍

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[–] namelivia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nice! For an Android music player free and compatible with your setup you can try Tempo on FDroid

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I need this i've been struggling to replace spotify.

[–] Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (13 children)

What am I missing? Whats wrong with Spotify?

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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Spotify has a feature where if it is playing on another device, you can control it with any other device logged into the account, is there any good way to replicate this with a linux desktop and an android phone?

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's something I've struggled to find so far unfortunately. Maybe something exists but I haven't found an answer yet.

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[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for putting this together! This is an excellent write up and is super informative! I'm already using Navidrome + Tempo with Lidarr for my music library, but since the database issues with Lidarr popped up a few months ago I haven't bothered adding new stuff.

I had no idea Explo was a thing, it's just what I've been hoping existed. I'm going to try and get it integrated into my set up.

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