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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[–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 !

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year 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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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..

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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