I rediscovered the joy of my own music collection by quitting Spotify and switching to self-hosted Navidrome.
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I chose Navidrome for my music collection. I basically use it when I’m outside working around the property. Put on my raggedy ass pair of Beats, I found in the thrift store for $5…had to do some repairs but they work, on a defunct old phone just for the wifi access. When I’m inside tho, I use Music Bee. Navadrome has everything I need, tho I am still searching for a mobile app that operates like I want it too. The app I’m currently using, Agin Music, is good, but there are a couple places in the operation flow that won’t let me backtrack to the previous page I was viewing. I’ll keep testing until I find one.
Android or iOS?
On android I found symphonium to be a great app to use with my navidrome server. On iOS, play:sub was the best experience I found
Second for Symphonium. Hands-down best *sonic client.
On iOS, ply:sub was the best experience I found
I’ll check out ply:sub. Thank you for the recommendation.
Sorry, typo. It’s Play:sub
Symphonium requires google play, right?
Nope. You can buy an infinite trial via the developers ko-fi!
There’s info about it on the symfonium forum.
I’ll rephrase lol it’s per device, so any issue or reflash means you have to contact?
Yeah, you will have to send the dev the new trial ID for a re-activation.
That’s also why it’s costs more, because it’s more manual work for him.
It’s a chore, but really cool by the dev to offer it as an option for people with de-googled devices.
Thanks! I agree that its cool of him to offer that, just a bit painful on all sides 🙂
Unfortunately, yes
Arpeggi on iOS is the best I’ve found. Available via TestFlight invite only. I plan to switch to Android in the next year, so I’m always interested to hear what clients people like over there too.
Tempo, Subtracks or Ultrasonic. All 3 on F-droid. You might find what you need there
DSub2000 is also fairly nice for Android.
Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely.
“Discover” new music by statistical means based on your average tastes.
This is the main thing I want out of music software tbh.
I know there is a lot about Plex to hate, but I am always grateful for Plexamp. It requires a Plex pass, but it’s worth it for Plexamp alone imo.
I mean, if you’re paying for something anyway, Navidrome + Symfonium is (to me) a better option.
Too bad it’s unusable if you’re like me and have huge playlists that you want to offline for shuffling due to spending long stretches of time without an Internet connection.
When I asked about this limitation, I was told that it was stupid to have such big playlists and needing to offline them because nobody is without Internet for long enough times for it to matter.
Great response from the developers that.
Yeah…all these companies try to sell you a solution to your problems…but it always involves giving them control over how you use your own products.
I recently set up a Navidrome/Lidarr setup and I’m beyond thrilled. Works great. I also recommend Symfonium app on android, it’s paid, but it’s worth it for the quality. On desktop, I’m trying out strawberry, but I find it a bit clunky, so I will probably try out other players. Use beet to download and ebmbed lyrics, and my music has never been better. I immediately ditched Spotify and haven’t looked back.
I use jellyfin for music. Some of the third party apps are nice. I can even stream it to Jellyfin app on Android Audio from my server while I’m driving, which is crazy to me.
I am actually in the process of setting up my own navidrome server on my proxmox host running on my old desktop hardware.
I was initially inspired by the following post and am very excited to get rid of Spotify.
I’ve been using Navidrome for a few months now. I also use Amplify on my iphone to stream using native controls which I find very useful.
Neat! As someone who never had that much luck with Spotify’s recommendations, this is part of what worked for me.
When I want a specific mood or even artist for music I own, I use navidrome.
To expand that collection I use bandcamp (and bandcamp Fridays).
To discover new stuff, I rely on recommendations from friends or go wide with sources like NTS radio or similar.
