Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support
Ferawyn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Interesting idea, but I feel anyone who wants this already has the tools available.
Personally, I use Syncthing to synchronize a Media folder across my desktops, phones and tablets.
Media/Music contains my active music collection, mostly ogg conversions of the source flac files. I use .m3u/.m3u8 files as good old playlists, saved to the Media/Music root folder with relative paths. This allows players like AIMP on windows to play/edit those playlists, and players like GoneMAD on Android to play them without any kind of active internet connection.
There’s also Media/Audiobooks, Media/Comics, Media/Movies, etc… Yes, they’re subsets of the full collections on my NAS, but I’ve never seen that as a disadvantage.
tripflag@lemmy.world 1 day ago
off topic, but out of curiosity - why ogg (presumably vorbis) in favor of opus? maybe old devices or players, or just haven’t made the change yet?
opus is also a xiph project, and is almost entirely transparent at “128kbps” (it’s a misnomer for the q4 of vorbis), so it uses way less space for the same quality. I warmly recommend giving it a try if you haven’t already.
Ferawyn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have tried opus, and indeed have had issues with players not supporting it. But that was years ago now, so I expect that’s no longer an issue. Using ogg is mostly just inertia on my end.