Pretty much the title: What do you use, what do you like?
I’m a bit disappointed with the jellyfin music experience. Video works great, but when I tried them. there wasn’t any app that seemed a bit… janky.
I tried Finamp and Jellytunes. Both made me try out subsonic. 😅
I’m also a bit annoyed that I haven’t found a great Linux client for music yet. Mopidy plugins never worked for me. But jellyfin-tui does the job.
I love Jellyfin and use it for all my videos, but have to question if it is really the most optimized platform for music.
In my opinion, running a navidrome server on the side is a better option. It is designed just for music and because it supports the subsonic protocol there are tons of different clients to suit different needs.
It looks like there have been some attempts at a subsonic plug-in for Jellyfin which would give you access to many more clients, but I don’t know the state of them.
Jellyfin is definitely not optimized for music. I tell everyone every chance I get that Navidrome is where its at. And there are so many clients available for Navidrome/Subsonic on all platforms, its a no-brainer to set it up if one has a decent music library.
Well, I always used the Finamp Beta, which is pretty good! (You need to download it manually or join the beta test on google play/app store, did you try the normal version or the beta version?)
It’s been a while since the last time I used them.
I have been enjoying Musicolet
Symfonium.
Not free or (F)OSS but great and worth it.Great except for one major problem (in my opinion): it does not keep up to date with the Jellyfin library (content, favourites, playlists) with performing a manual full sync in the app and even then playlists and favourites mismatches seem to often persist.
It does. Just not 100% live.
But you can (as you said) force it.
Navidrome backend and navic for phone. on fdroid store
https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer
I haven’t tried jellybox yet (or Jellyfin at all) but it seemed interesting to me because of the Spotify-like playlists. I just saw a reddit post about it on r/self hosted.
I’ve only been using Navidrome and Tempo lately for a couple days. Works pretty well. I am thinking about setting up AutoMuse for smart playlists but haven’t gotten that far.
Tempo had been abandoned for quite some time, of you still use Tempo do yourself a favour and check Tempus: a fork of Tempo that’s actively maintained: https://github.com/eddyizm/tempus
I stumbled across Tempus a couple weeks ago and it’s great. I moved off of Tempo. Thanks for the suggestion!
Try out Poweramp, I would disable network access but otherwise this is gonna be hands down the best in my opinion. It’s a premium option though, you’ll have to pay to use it eventually but let’s you use it for like a month or two for free. Can buy it on their website and then they’ll give you an apk to download so no google services needed
Otherwise, on F droid I really like Lotus music player, looks super nice and works well. Def suggest this one as well and of course its free, so even better
How would I use Jellyfin without network access? 😅
My bad, I misinterpreted. I thought you were just asking about Android music players that just play music locally. Then I saw we were in the Jellyfin sub hah. Hopefully you find a solution to your problem
Ah! Yeah, I could have put it in the title. Don’t sweat it.
I like Tauon pretty well.
Edit: nvm that’s for desktop. I use Phocid on Android, but I only play local files so idk how or if it works with streams.
Desktop recommendations are also welcome. Although I’d like something keyboard-focused, like jellyfin-tui.
I’ve started using Wavio. It is partially vibe coded but it is open source. I used to use Symphonium but I didn’t like how it does (or rather doesn’t) keep in sync with the Jellyfin library without manual intervention.
I like Linthra which is FOSS and works either with local files or self hosted servers like Jellyfin. I haven’t tried hosting Jellyfin yet so I haven’t tested that, but I really like it’s interface for local files
