In my living room, Kodi. On PC, Strawberry Music Player. On android phone, Musicolet.
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Jellyfin as a server where my music is hosted.
Jellyfin's web client to stream on my personal laptop.
Symphonium to stream on my Android phone, and sometimes Deezer (when I want to check out new songs).
Deemix to extract songs I like from Deezer to my server.
Tailscale for external access.
On my work laptop I only listen to online radios, or I just use my phone. I guess I could connect to my server on it, but the laptop belongs to my company, so I avoid any access to my personal stuff.
I recently set up Navidrome on my home server. I listen using Symphonium. Its all basically "Spotify but my own music collection."
Music Assistant most of the time. Sometimes I just use Symfonium directly but they both tap into my Navidrome server.
Navidrome + Subsonic Streamer + feishin
Navidrome server.
Mobile: dsub2000
Desktop: feishin (or sometimes my own tui client)
Copy stuff from my nas to phone (cable or x-plore), play independently with pulsar+
I guess that is a way.
It is indeed and it has absolutely no dependencies, which is what I am going for.
Plexamp
If I'm working then normally I use the smart playlists to mix it up a little.
Jellyfin client on mobile and AndroidTV, and Strawberry on PC. All my music is on my NAS, which Jellyfin server and CIFS/SMB can access.
Keep meaning to look into Music Assistant for Home Assistant, as I have the latter.
Just sync my files to my sd card.
On my phone I use VLC player to play files that I saved on local storage. It's very rare that I do any kind of streaming on my phone, if I do I do it through Firefox.
Feishin on Desktop. Symfonium on phone. (I can also recommend Tempo, which is open source but doesn't work over Android Auto last I tried.) To host my music I use Navidrome. Which I have setup as a docker container, behind a reverse proxy. The files are stored on my NAS. To access remotely I have Wireguard setup. That being said, to use Android Auto with Symfonium while my Navidrome is only accessible on my network or over VPN I use split tunneling otherwise Android Auto throws a fit.
I have a very similar setup. I work from home and use a tablet with symphonium for radio and my personal collection. When I'm in the car since I don't have Android Auto, I just connect my phone with the Bluetooth. And I use tailscale as the VPN.
Navidrome server, which I access either through the web UI or through the Tempus app on Android
VLC for files in local storage.
Tempus for streaming / downloading the rest from my Navidrome instance.
In the laptop, I tried Supersonic to stream music from my server, but for some odd reason it audibly degraded sound quality, so I ditched it. I have since been using my browser. I might try it again, though, and see if the issue has been fixed.
VLC on mobile or desktop, SD card music folder synced with desktop and server
At work, youtube with ublock origin, adblock plus, etc, preventing the ads
Sometimes I'll stream stuff from bandcamp
On the move, the SD card in my phone (with pairdrop.net to upload albums) playing through VLC
Is there a way to prevent the "are you still watching" shit on YouTube? I do the same and that's the one drawback.
Personal Jellyfin server for my own vinyl, CD, and cassette tape rips.
Grayjay for streaming.
Youtube music i get a discount from my phone provider.
GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.
I use Vanilla music. It was the only music player I found that would keep my place in my long running playlist that I have on shuffle all the time. It gets through all the songs, shuffles, and then queues through all the songs again, reshuffled. Other players I tested would forget the place, or that music was playing in the first place, and that was frustrating.
I stream it to my computer by connecting my phone to my computer via Bluetooth. I think it's was a new KDE feature, but now my Linux laptop will pretend to be a headset/speakers, and the Android phone will just play to it. It's so amazing. Because then I can listen to audio from both my phone and my computer at once pretty easily, and keep my spot in that one playlist I keep running. Unfortunately, it has an annoying issue where it drops out (but doesn't pause the audio) when the CPU is used too much. Lemmy post: https://programming.dev/post/45725312
When I want a more reliable setup, like when I am compiling things, I usually plug my phone into my computer and use srcpy. This can stream the android screen to the computer over ADB, but I just stream the audio, since that's all I care about.