I've been using a Navidrome server with Feishin as a desktop client (though I'm looking for something a bit more feature-rich) and play:Sub as a mobile client with a tailscale link. No idea if this is a dumb way to do this, but it works for me. I don't really get any buffering unless I'm trying to play a FLAC out in the middle of nowhere.

I'm using Plex with plexamp. You could also go jellyfin with finamp

Jellyfin. I've been using it for several months. It works really great for streaming music and also videos. I use the Finamp app in my phone for music.

@mitexleo @selfhosted

Navidrome should recognize both album-artists and artists. In my phone app (Symfonium) I see them separately and I can browse by individual artists or by album-artists.

it's closed source, but Roon is pretty darn good. Slick UI, tagging, artist/album information, local/remote playback, speaker streaming. I have it pointed to an NFS share on my file server. It handles large (250k+ songs) libraries reasonably well. They integrate directly with a couple services, though I've never used them.

the selling point for me, over other music servers(I've tried almost every one mentioned in this thread), was that it was a much better ux than any other offering. for the most part it has held up or exceeded recent comparisons.

disclaimers: it is not free. some might say expensive.

as seems the norm these days, the forums have some admin moderation problems.

they've not historically listened to user feedback seriously, though that has changed drastically over the past year.

they just got acquired by HK... which could really go either way long-term.

NGL, it took many years for it to mature to this point and it continues to be bumpy; though nothing worse than open software I've used and it is nothing if not reliable.

I started working on a hobby project recently to meld the utility of Beets with a music and podcast streaming service, like Subsonic. I'm developing this with a contract-first approach, and so far I've gotten most of the podcast management code in place, but I've not started working on the frontend outside of integrating a skeleton project into build process. I'll add a note to look into supporting webdav data sources directly.

I plan on doing another big dev push around Christmas, so hopefully I'll have an MVP app to show off around that time. The frontend is a basic vite/react base and the backend is Spring Boot with Kotlin. I'll be looking for some contributors for the mobile app side within the next few months.

I'm syncing Spotify playlists with Lidarr and play my music in Jellyfin or Symfonium.

Do you only experience the 5-10 second buffering issue on mobile? If not, then you might be able to fix the issue by tuning your NextCloud instance - upping the memory limit, disabling debug mode and dropping log level back to warn if you ever changed it, enabling memory caching, etc..

Check out https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html and https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/php_configuration.html#ini-values for docs on the above.

Currently exploring some tools around this myself too. I'd recommend having a look at Gonic, LMS(light music server) and Navidrome for hosting music. Personally I quite liked the simplicity of Gonic.

If you need to re-sort/manage your music then, Beets and Musicbrainz Picard, or MediaMonkey (if you're on Windows) are your friends. These can add alot of additional metadata to your library.

Beets is apparently the "best" tool out of these as it has a big plugin library and hella customizable configuration for your exact setup.

Best of luck 🤞

Funkwhale?

If you want pure streaming DAAP using OwnTone is a good alternative https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/

Personally I use gonic with the Subsonic API, and Ultrasonic on Android. I haven't noticed any buffering lag, but it does buffer and cache aggressively. For mobile connections I see that as a big plus since it'll continue to play even if I loose signal for a while.