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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.

    6 days later

    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.

      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

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      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.

      5 days later

      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.).

      2 months later

      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.

      I seldom listen to music these days, but when I do, it’s from CD’s rips I did on my computer, and which I transfered to the phone over MTP. I use VLC as a music player.

      Spotify with my Sony wf1000xm4 paired with Gadgetbridge.

      It is the only non FOSS app I use on my main profile, I will look at alteratives to this post. Thanks for your suggestions!