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I did actually notice that one or 2 albums were wrong but put it down to slight glitch I could live with, but having them all wrong is infuriating, I recognise many albums by their covers and it helps browsing to pick something out. I couldn't sync for ages because it told me my device was full, it had just lost it's handle on the music, none of the syncing options would add or remove anything, eventually, the other night, I went into the settings for the music app and manually deleted everything and resynced and it finally started working again!īut then, 12 hours later after sync completes (Same as you, around 100GB of music), I discover the album artwork is completely messed up, almost no albums have the correct artwork, they've all been swapped around at random, all albums have the same artwork for all tracks, just that they're completely the wrong ones.Ĭhecking the apple forums, it seems this is not uncommon, and has been happening for a year. If you use iOS, you can set music synching to automatically encode to mp3 when synching with the phone, that worked really well for me, for a while.Īpple music, if you keep your own music, has completely gone off the rails for me this last year. Owning your own services is so liberating

Setting up a public-facing server, or even a private one with a VPN tunnel is too much hassle for the average person. I wish this were more accessible to everyone. If something goes wrong and knocks the server offline, I have my music cached on my phone. There will never be ads or a creepy business model. I very much enjoy knowing that I own and control my media and the data about my usage of it. Spotify was too convenient for discovery.īut, I've been happily streaming my collection for a couple of months now, and removing Spotify and the radio has gotten rid of most of the last remaining advertising vectors in my life.

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So far, the biggest problem is simply learning how to find music again.

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I use finamp on android, it's specifically a music player frontend for jellyfin, and has options to download your files and play offline. There's even pretty nice third-party clients. I host it on my homelab along with a half dozen other services, and I can stream any of my media from anywhere.

I use Jellyfin, it's about the same thing as Plex, but free. Also it is broken with ISO's which is one of my major use cases. I personally use KODI as I do not need that particular streaming feature. But it is sort of finicky to setup correctly. You can get the same effect with KODI and using a DB like mysql or mariadb. Also the centrally managed metadata is nice when you have more than one client. If I remember correctly there were a lot of clients also for TV's which have absolute rubbish CPU power and no local storage (for holding metadata). Say a VPN to your phone, or a friends house who has crappy internet. It is a nice feature for low bandwidth applications. In some cases they let you stream it thru a web client (which is kinda cool). Jellyfin is similar with its ability to transcode and stream that to a client. Picking data from a CIFS is basic XBMC/KODI/Plex functionality and has been in there for a long time going back to the original xbox days. In all ways KODI is better except in that use case. That is the one killer feature Plex has over KODI. Then stream it to a secondary plex client. Plex can act as a 'head unit' and do format transform and metadata management. I think at some level its still greenwashing the truly awful world of A&R/IPR on music, but if anyone has to get payola here, it might as well be musicians. I don't like these music rental schemes, I like to own my CDs and rip but for exploration, finding what you don't know, its really useful and unlike some of the other choices, its owned by musos. Jellyfin is another variant of the same codebase (forked) plexamp is available when you take subscription, and periodically plex offer lifetime buy deals, which I leapt on. I keep the discs behind them on the shelves just in case but I haven't opened a CD case in nearly a decade. This is my music, on my disks, under my control. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net.

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