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I have experimented with FinAmp, Jellyfin, Plexamp, and Symformium.

I really hate to say it, but Plexamp is the best out of all of them. The thing is, I wanted to ditch Plex because I do not like them anymore.

Can anyone recommend me a good free app for Android that can stream my music collection?

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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Navidrome + Tempo is probably the best experience I ever had on mobile !

However, Tempo hasn't been updated for a few months now and hope the maintainer is doing okay?

Tried a few other alternatives but Tempo came out the best IMO !

[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Made the switch from Airsonic + Ultrasonic and second this.

And hoping Tempo's maintainer is still working on it.

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is the music discovery on Tempo?

[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Not bad at all! You have your classic shuffle discovery, but also a playlist from songs you liked, and many exploration shortcuts like music by decades. It also got me into scrobbling to listenbrainz.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Can you link to Tempo? The name is rather generic making it hard to find.

Edit: found it on F-droid. Benefit of a smaller pool.

Sucks that there's no auto playlist. I like to be able to one click make a radio station from an artist.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yeah sorry about that here's the GitHub repo: Tempo !

[–] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I agree after switching to Navidrome i tried a few of the apps and found Tempo to be the best

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

Airsonic or Navidrome server, plus one of the various Subsonic apps. I like Substreamer or Dsub but there are plenty of other options.

[–] maus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Like others have stated. Navidrome. It's the only open sources backend I've found to properly handle my ~14TB music library without having performance issues.

[–] hempster@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Just use this. It's by far the best option

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I use Finamp with my Jellyfin library for simplicity’s sake. Other things probably have better UI and such, but it’s nice to just dump all my media in my Jellyfin folders and move on.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

After trying a couple apps with Jellyfin for a bit, I switched to Ultrasonic with Navidrome and never looked back.

My read on Jellyfin is that it's probably better suited for TV and movies than it is for music.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Symfonium

What didn't you like about it?

That's what I'm using after looking at a bunch of other options based on my requirements, and while I didn't want to go with a closed source, paid app, it does everything.

[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except working without play services, that is, and some of us aren't fans of having those around.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the dev, Play Services is only needed for casting:

"...you only need play services for Chromecast." SOURCE, replying to a GrapheneOS user

He even offers an option to install without the play store (via Aurora) and to contact him for the license. SOURCE

[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What features are you missing in Finamp? I would say it's pretty freaking good. Although I don't have any experience with Plex and its clients.

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not OP, but when I was looking for an alternative it was the music analysis and Auto-Playlist/DJ features that set Plexamp apart.

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I agree, the DJ and playlist features are pretty great. Definitely what I missed when trying Finamp. If anyone has another suggestion that does similar I'm game to try. Just to try and start to divest from Plex.

[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I see, this sounds very good indeed!

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I like Finamp, but one thing that comes to mind is if I try to reorder the tracks on the queue, it doesn't work as expected. It moves different tracks instead, it's very buggy.

[–] k4j8@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I was going to say that Finamp doesn't support offline filtering by artists, but when looking for the open issue I just found out the beta does support this! Awesome!

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I use navidrome + tempo and I'm happy with them..sometimes I feel like the shuffle function is not that great..I get some tracks way more often than others but then I just press next..

[–] I_Am_Jacks_____@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I really like Tempo so far. I haven't tried it in my car yet. But I'm missing a widget

[–] tuhriel@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

I'm running an airsonic-advanced server and use the tempo app on android https://github.com/CappielloAntonio/tempo

And supersonic on linux & windows: https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic?tab=readme-ov-file

[–] gaiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

reiterating that Navidrome is superb, it just... never stops working, I'm always shocked how reliable it is to be honest, no matter what I throw at it

I also love Tempo on android (find it on Fdroid)

[–] moonlight6205@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I'm using Jellyfin + Synfonium, the offline caching is brilliant.

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I'm using Swing music. It has nice webui and native android app

[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I use emby for my entire media collection, including music.

[–] carloshr@lile.cl 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a #Jellyfin server at home where i store my music files. In my android phone i use #Finamp for listening to music from jellyfin. I also tried the jellyfn app, Gelli and findroid, but my favorite so far is Finamp.

@ev1lchris @selfhosted

[–] sanimalp@mstdn.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

@carloshr @ev1lchris @selfhosted "symfonium" is amazing on android. It is for pay, $3.99, but I found it worth it. It gets updates relentlessly and is amazing. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.symfonik.music.player

[–] xyro@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I switched from aAirsonic to Navidrome recently and I wouldn't go back, Symohonium to listen on Android