Comment on Ditching Spotify and YT Music
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not sure if this fits your need, but if you just want to own the files, maybe try playing locally?
I don’t have an unlimited data plan, so I use “Gelli” which can download from Jellyfin and play them offline. However, it’s buggy and haven’t been updated in a while, so I’m planning on ditching that, and switch to locally storing the music files.
I found an Android music player named “Symphony”. It reads directories as album, as well as metadata. Importantly, it also saves the queue for me. I have a self-hosted Nextcloud so I can sync music to my phone. Symphony would read them from the directory.
N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
If you’re interested in an alternative to Gelli, check Finamp (github.com/jmshrv/finamp): it is a Jellyfin client for Android that can also download music to play offline. Try the latest beta version, it is way ahead the stable version and works perfectly for me as a daily driver.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It doesn’t let me download the entire album though :<
N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Mmmm, did you try the latest beta or the stable version?
The stable version is quite outdated and download doesn’t work great there. With the beta version (0.9.11) I’m able to download full albums, full artists or individual songs. I’m very happy with it. I’d recommend you give it another a try if you have time.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Interesting. I didn’t know the beta version exists. I’ll try it out later. Thanks!