I'm not asking for much! Android Music app (requirements below)
from Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 20:01
https://lemmy.ca/post/37650308

I’m self-hosting my music collection (synology NAS), and while I’ve liked Poweramp, it only reads local music files, which means I have to copy many GB of music to my phone, even if I’m not particularly listening to it.

The Synology DS Audio app actually does what I want: it caches music locally as you’re streaming it, but it reads directly from the NAS.

The only problem with DS Audio is that it sucks as an actual music player.

Are there any Android music players, preferably FOSS or at least privacy-friendly, that will read from the NAS and cache in an intelligent way but also works well as an actual music player?

I did try Symfonium, but couldn’t get it to work with Webdav or SMB, plus the dev comes off as a real asshole, so I’d rather not give them money.

EDIT: To clarify what I’m looking for:

If you’ve used the Synology DS Audio app, then you’ll know exactly the behaviour I’m looking for. It really is a shame that DS Audio sucks as a music player, or else it would be exactly what I’m looking for.

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Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 21 Jan 20:05 next collapse

I haven’t tried it in she’s but foobar2000 might do everything you’re hoping for.

Like you, I’m confused there hasn’t been an open source solution to this by now.

Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me on 21 Jan 20:14 next collapse

LineageOS’s default music app, Twelve, supports Jellyfin as a source:

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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca on 21 Jan 20:22 collapse

But does it cache, or only stream?

Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee on 21 Jan 20:19 next collapse

I have used Tempo but I self host Navidrome

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe on 21 Jan 20:19 next collapse

So, paid app (if you want wireless sync) - Media Monkey.

The Android app can read network shares and network media servers (I forget exactly what it can read). But it works best if you run the server app - then you can stream the library or sync media, similar to iTunes.

The Android app is free for basic functionality ($5 for wireless sync), the desktop/server app is free ($30 to enable wireless sync and a few other features). It’s been worth it for me. Even the free versions work very well.

Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 20:25 next collapse

Emby will let you do it but you need a host server. Same with plexamp. Foobar2000 offers remote smb folder access but I don’t remember if it works as the library of it it just lets you download the files from smb.

bulwark@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 20:26 next collapse

Not FOSS but I use Symfonium to stream music from my Navidrome instance on my NAS while I’m out of the house.

Edit, saw your last comment. What couldn’t you get working?

Showroom7561@lemmy.ca on 21 Jan 20:45 collapse

What couldn’t you get working?

It was erroring out when I tried to set up either Webdav or SMB. Maybe I was setting it up wrong, but I’ve got those things set up on multiple devices and multiple apps without any trouble.

bulwark@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 22:40 collapse

Ah, I can’t speak Symfonium’s WebDAV or SMB handling. My music server runs Navidrome that uses the subsonic api. All I have to do is point my music player at my url and I can sync favorites and listen counts across everything, it’s pretty great.

Showroom7561@lemmy.ca on 22 Jan 03:33 collapse

OK, I’m going to give this another look!

infeeeee@lemm.ee on 21 Jan 20:40 next collapse

My offline android music workflow:

  • Server: Navidrome but any music server supporting Subsonic API would work here. Navidrome has a nice UI, and reads MusicBrainz IDs, and can scrobble to ListenBrainz, that’s why I settled with this.
  • Mobile app: Ultrasonic, on Fdroid. There are a lot of ways you can set up caching. I set up that it should automatically download everything from my “Now playing” playlist, at home on wifi I just add a bunch of albums and playlists to the “Now playing” list, it takes a while but it transcodes and downloads everything in a couple of minutes. It has very good Android Auto support, and a widget. Due to an annoying bug I had to downgrade to version 4.7.1, but otherwise I love it.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 20:56 next collapse

Tempo is my favorite Navidrome client at the moment.

infeeeee@lemm.ee on 21 Jan 22:43 next collapse

I tried that recently. I didn’t like that it doesn’t have a widget, and the downloads and current playlist are completely separate. Also there was no option to automatically continue when connecting to a headset (this was working in Ultrasonic 4.8, but not in 4.7.1 I hope they fix that bug sometime…) So after some weeks use I switched back to Ultrasonic.

N0x0n@lemmy.ml on 21 Jan 23:11 collapse

Tempo is soo good !

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe on 22 Jan 01:03 collapse

Oh, neat setup!

isgleas@lemmy.ml on 21 Jan 20:44 next collapse

On my synology nas I have installed navidrome to serve the music, and consume it via web, and a few android and linux apps like ultrasonic or supersonic

spawnsalot@fedia.io on 22 Jan 00:14 next collapse

Not sure how much it lines up with your specifics but I've used Neutron for ages and it supports WevDAV, SFTP, UPnP/DLNA amongst other things and sounds great (to my untrained eats anyway)

butter@midwest.social on 22 Jan 02:32 collapse

As other’s have said Navidrome is the way to go. Not the most featureful, but it’s so much faster than every other solution that you make it work. It’s also very close to a huge update to support plugins and stuff.

I use the DSub app. Free from fdroid. Configured to download 10 songs in advance, for when I’m driving with spotty service, and download my favorites.

It also let’s you set different internal and external IP addresses, if you need that. I think most people do unless you run a DNS server.

Keelhaul@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jan 05:14 collapse

If you don’t want to run a DNS server and don’t want to set up different internal & external IPs you can also use NAT Hairpinning