What's your music setup on mobile? 🎵

tuxsudo Jellyfin with Symfonium is amazing

Agree! I use Symfonium with my Emby server, which I access remotely using Tailscale. The setup works great - no Google service dependencies. I love how I can access all of my playlists remotely. Symfonium will stream full-resolution (eg FLAC), or if you want you can set a bit rate limit while using mobile data.

I use Poweramp and a local library primarily because I'm SIM off and airplane mode all the time, but just got Finamp working with Jellyfin so have my entire music library when on my home network. Took me a few hours to figure out I needed to go to settings > Network & Internet > VPN and turn off Block connections without VPN, then go into my VPN app settings and add Finamp to the split tunnel list. Might soon try remote access over wifi with Tailscale like rambleon suggested

Rips music to 96K opus and push onto device with rsync (with an ssh daemon running in Termux; sshd).

#!/bin/bash
# pass IP of device as argument
MUSICDIR=/home/$USER/tmp/ANDROID/MUSIC
find "${MUSICDIR:?}" -type f \( -iname "*.flac" -o -iname '*.mp4' -o -iname "*.alac" -o -iname "*.ape" -o -iname '*.m4a' -o -iname '*.m4b' -o -iname "*.ogg" -o -iname "*.webm" -o -iname "*.wav" -o -iname '*.mp3' \) -exec sh -c 'ffmpeg -y -i "$1" -c:a libopus -b:a 96K "${1%.*}.opus"' sh {} \; && find "${MUSICDIR:?}" -depth -exec perl-rename "s/[\\:*?\"<>|\n]//g" "{}" \; && rsync -avzz --progress -e "ssh -p 8022" "${MUSICDIR:?}"/. "$1":"/sdcard/Music/"

And then play locally. (I've been using Musicolet.)

Just the Spotify app and NewPipe for things that are on SoundCloud and YouTube.

dmzee Spotify lite is a much better version of the Spotify app without all the bloat and less trackers.

rambleon @tuxsudo I am trying out Symphonium, and I am very impressed and love having my local and jellyfin music in the same app, and having it filter to just the local when I don't have wifi. Quick question: How did you buy the app? Do you use a burner google account to pay for the app through the sandboxed play store, or did you contact the dev and get an apk that way, or some other way?

Just NewPipe mainly, sometimes Discord VC.

https://github.com/Sangwan5688/BlackHole

Feature packed music app, support multiple platforms and playlist import from spotify, yt music etc..

Metro (Retro Music with paid features unlocked), and thinking of moving to Auxio in the future for local files

Newpipe for some new music

Apple Music subscription for streaming and high quality downloads

Listen with Apple Wired Earbuds with Apple DAC or Google Buds Pro (not the best for audio but its what I got)

There are some interesting options in this thread

Spotify 😳

I see it mentioned once above, so I'll second Musicolet as an app to play local music. Didn't even ask for the Network permission on install and lots of sorting/filtering options for local music collection.

gato
Re purchasing Symfonium - the dev accepts payment via https://ko-fi.com/tolriq, see https://support.symfonium.app/t/in-app-purchase/595. It is heartening that one of the most active support threads is about de-googled users wanting to purchase the app.

Ah, thanks. I ended up using a burner google account and privacy.com card. Have since uninstalled Play Services and the app still works great. Really loving it.

Poweramp in order to play my CD rips + web store purchases (Bandcamp etc.).

Where are you buying digital albums these days (besides from Bandcamp
)? Or are most of you still ripping from CDs?

Using Finamp (for my Jellyfin instance) and Deezer.

tuxsudo Thanks for the tip on Symfonium, way better than Finamp :)

I rip CD's, save the files to pCloud, open the files using pCloud on my 6A, install the music files on the phone then use Muzio player which scans the phone and adds the tracks. Muzio Player presents songs, albums etc, creates playlists and all one would expect. It is a tedious process, always looking for a simpler way, thinking of going back to just using a CD player.