right now I’m trying a dedicated Jellyfin instance for audio only (bought the lifetime emby subscription before i learned about jellyfin, so video is elsewhere) but having trouble finding a good client that could run on the guts of an old autonomic MMS2A. That device has an analog and digital output, which with the normal OS treated as two separate sources. is that something anyone else has tinkered with? the original plan was to just run a kodi instance with the jellyfin addon, but im not sure if this has the horsepower to run kodi, and certainly not two at once! (4gb of ram max for this beast.

i need it to be remotely controllable, it’d be cool to have easy playlist management/backup that other devices could see, and potentially an android client if possible?

I’ve dabbled with the “____sonic” ecosystem back before i was really good at linux, and struggled a bunch, before giving up without anything real to show for it.

just curious if anyone else has been down this road successfully!

thanks for this community, my scrolling stops INSTANTLY when i see a post from here.

(oh my music server is a truenas SMB share, hosted in a proxmox vm! not opposed to putting a big SSD in this device if local music would make things easier)

  • [object Object]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why do I see no mentions of Ampache here? From what I found, it was the only program except Navidrome to support nested smart playlist, and Ampache has the editor directly in the web interface.

    Anyways, I host mine too! Over 2TB of music files on my server, and it runs pretty well.

      • [object Object]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Well, I don’t actually play all of them in a straight line; it’s more of an archive. Still, my main playlist is few thousand songs long, which is created with smart playlists.

      • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’m close to a TB myself. For me, I’m a bit of a “completionist” and can’t stand having just 2 or 3 tracks from an entire album. Every track I have is accompanied by the rest of the album it was released on.

        Sure, it means there are some duplicates at times, but it’s worth it to me.

        • [object Object]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Same. There are some tracks and albums I don’t like, but I won’t delete them. Another reason to use smart playlist, I can just put them into “Not My Style” playlist and it’s magically gone from my main list.

  • jhdeval@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I use navidrome for the streaming and lidarr for downloads. I am not totally thrilled with navidrome as I can not play genres. I want to setup an icecast streaming server with individual “channels” for each genre

  • 4k93n2@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    after using jellyfin and emby for a long while ive gone back to basics, just local mp3s synced between devices using syncthing

    something like KDE Connect might work for remote control as long as you are able to install it on both devices

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My problem is that I cannot find a selfhosting solution that has the nuts to spool up 80k+ hi-res, original sourced, flac files that reside on two 10TB drives through my ancient technology. MusicBee is the closest thing I’ve come across, but that is local, and it struggles. I stay around the compound now days so local is ok, but it would be nice to stream out on the back porch without cranking my stereo to 11 so I can hear. I have bluetooth options but range is an issue.

  • tuckerm@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use Funkwhale, which I have liked, but my use case is just streaming music through my laptop and listening with headphones. I don’t think there is a client available that will run on your Autonomic streamer.

    Funkwhale does have a subsonic API, so you could use a subsonic client, but you mentioned that didn’t quite work before. (Is that what you mean by __sonic? I haven’t actually heard that term.)

    Funkwhale is nice, but I think for most people it doesn’t (yet) offer any useful features beyond what Navidrome has, and probably even lacks a few things that Navidrome has. Funkwhale’s main appeal is that you can follow someone’s music library via the fediverse, although there hasn’t really been a lot of use for that so far. Version 2 is coming soon, though, and adds a whole bunch of new fediverse features.

  • Fedditor385@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I share a Spotify family plan with friends, but I use Zotify to make backups, which I then host in Jellyfin.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

    I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) in directories and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time “mplayer *” is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don’t understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I hear you Mr Audiophile. Thing is, all that space it takes to house a grand collection, when it all now fits on two 10TB drives filled with high res flac. I can’t tell a difference. Not saying there isn’t one, just saying I can’t hear it. So, for me, it works out perfect.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    VM having a EXT4 disk on a ZFS storage.
    Files are (usually) FLAC
    Files are ripped from CD with Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
    Alternatively they are bought or ‘lent’ out ;)
    Files are managed by Lidarr.
    Jellyfin for streaming.
    On mobile I use Symfonium (alternative: FinAmp or Gelli).

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Basically my setup but without ZFS (kept randomly crashing entirely, probably not a great nvme) or ripped CDs, haven’t had a disk drive in over a decade lol

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I tried to set mine up through Proxmox, after 3-10 days the whole ZFS pool would crash and I’d have to reboot the machine to get it functional again. I’m sure I either did something wrong with config or the 4 year old consumer nvme I had it set up on just couldn’t handle it lol

          • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Maybe the disk was running out of spare storage cells and ate into the actual data partition and corrupting the data table (if that’s even possible)

  • mat@linux.communityEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I currently host Navidrome, which has an okay web player. On Android I use “Tempo” (though it is unmaintained) to connect to it, and on Linux I use Tauon (though it has very poor playback). I could not find a native Linux client that is not buggy unfortunately, so I’m also on the lookout for better solutions! I’m not familiar with the device you are talking about but every client I tried supports MPRIS, which are the regular media controls that can be used via the playerctl command, so you should be able to hook things up that way.

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I have just set up Navidrome from the first time and I’m using Feishin as my Linux desktop client. I installed it via nix because it isn’t in the Fedora repos as far as I could tell

    • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Have you had problems on android with tempo not continuing playback?

      I also run navidrome, and have tried tempo, substreamer, and another client I can’t think of, and any of the clients that stream keep stopping playback after one song when the screen is locked.

      I’ve given the client all the permissions for running in the background and using battery that I can and no matter what I do, it’ll just stop after one song.

      I’m on a pixel 7a with gOS.

      For now I’ve settled on Poweramp with tla selection of the music on my phone since I can’t fit it all in storage. Its been really frustrating.

      • mat@linux.communityEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Hmm no, I haven’t had this issue. Tempo works fine for me, it’s been mostly bug-free except for a few oversights:

        • search doesn’t work offline
        • can’t play AAC files
        • can’t skip songs via my Pebble watch

        I’m (still) on a Pixel 3a, running LineageOS, in case that matters.

  • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    MPD (Music Player Daemon) would be perfect for that old Autonomic - super lightweight, runs on practically anythng, and Symfonium is an amazing Android client that supports it natively.

  • truxnell@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Navidrome server, symfonium on android is amazing. I also use maloja and multi-scrobbler to caoture plays from multiple sources and keep a in-house record of my plays.