I’m currently trying to divorce myself from paid streaming services so I’m looking for ideas to pursue. Those of you with huge music collections, what are your solutions for listening at home and on the go? Self-hosted streaming? Modern mp3 player with huge amounts of storage? Modified legacy MP3 player? What are the upsides and downsides? I’m really just looking for what options are out there and if there’s any kind of general consensus on what’s best.
I just use a 64gb SD card in my phone, but I guess that doesn’t qualify as ‘huge’ any more.
I use the Seeker app for awaiting the mp3s
Hey thanks. I’ve already learned something. I was aware of pyslsk but didn’t know there was an android client. This is useful.
server with large HDD storage with jellyfin and the rest of the stack (lidarr, sonarr, radarr,…)
I use xManager to stream from Spotify while wearing an eye patch.
I use both Spotify and my personal collection hosted on Plex. With iOS I have played around with a few different options, you can use the normal Plex app, there is asl Plexamp, but my personal favorite is Prism Music. The same dev also makes an audiobook app that works with plex called Prologue that is phenomenal.
Plex is definitely on my list of things to check, it seems like a good unified solution. Any privacy concerns regarding streaming personal media?
I don’t personally have any but I know I could always do more if I needed to. If you’re more private focused there is also Jellyfin, it’s not bad but I already paid for the lifetime Plex pass and I didn’t see any reason to switch right now.
I run Navidrome at home on a server running Yunohost. I was using Airsonic, but Navidrome is way lighter and less buggy.
I buy CDs and encode them myself with Lame or buy from Bandcamp. They live on my computer and I add them to my phone as desired. I also have spotify because tbh you can’t buy everything.
I used to use Google music for streaming my own files, but they put that into YouTube Music. I can still stream the files I uploaded using the YT music app but it’s clearly not the main intended purpose of the app.
You may want to download new music automatically with https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/docker-lidarr-extended and stream it via navidrome to symphonium.
