I use Plex and jellyfin, honestly, plex only stays around because of plexamp. It’s just too good. I don’t like using streaming apps like Spotify or whatever because they’re not as good
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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
There are many different ways, but personally (and hopefully I don’t get crucified for saying this) I use Plex and Plexamp. Plexamp has got to be the best music app I’ve ever used. I even tied it into Last.fm to get recommendations for new music based on my listening.
You’d need to set up Plex media server to go this route: …plex.tv/…/200264746-quick-start-step-by-step-gui…
Personally I host via Docker.
It might be a little overkill if you don’t have other media, though, and it’s not fully open source.
greedytacothief@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf 3 weeks ago
@greedytacothief @AmbiguousProps How does Finamp compare?
tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily overkill, you can run Plex on almost anything. I used to run it on an old NUC6 I had laying around, then upgraded to a NUC8, and more recently I setup it up as a VM on Proxmox on a Ryzen 5709u mini-PC.
Virtualizing it has been good for my purposes since now it’s running alongside AssetUPnP and AudioBookshelf, and I’ve another VM on the host running Home Assistant with still plenty of resources to spare. Crazy we can do that now with a “server” that literally fits in my palm.
But virtualizing it makes hardware acceleration for video transcode be I more complicated, just a heads up. I play everything native so don’t use it, but YMMV.