I’m currently trying to divorce myself from paid streaming services so I’m looking for ideas to pursue. Those of you with huge music collections, what are your solutions for listening at home and on the go? Self-hosted streaming? Modern mp3 player with huge amounts of storage? Modified legacy MP3 player? What are the upsides and downsides? I’m really just looking for what options are out there and if there’s any kind of general consensus on what’s best.

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    2 years ago

    I use both Spotify and my personal collection hosted on Plex. With iOS I have played around with a few different options, you can use the normal Plex app, there is asl Plexamp, but my personal favorite is Prism Music. The same dev also makes an audiobook app that works with plex called Prologue that is phenomenal.

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      2 years ago

      Plex is definitely on my list of things to check, it seems like a good unified solution. Any privacy concerns regarding streaming personal media?

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        2 years ago

        I don’t personally have any but I know I could always do more if I needed to. If you’re more private focused there is also Jellyfin, it’s not bad but I already paid for the lifetime Plex pass and I didn’t see any reason to switch right now.

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    2 years ago

    I just use a 64gb SD card in my phone, but I guess that doesn’t qualify as ‘huge’ any more.

    I use the Seeker app for awaiting the mp3s

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      2 years ago

      Hey thanks. I’ve already learned something. I was aware of pyslsk but didn’t know there was an android client. This is useful.

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    2 years ago

    I run Navidrome at home on a server running Yunohost. I was using Airsonic, but Navidrome is way lighter and less buggy.

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    2 years ago

    server with large HDD storage with jellyfin and the rest of the stack (lidarr, sonarr, radarr,…)