Hey folks,
I'm using since years subsonic to stream music to my mobile device. Subsonic and it's known alternatives like Airsonic aren't really mainained though and some existing bugs are frustrating. Can you recommend me a good alternative to stream my own music collection to my mobile device?

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[–] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I use Navidrome with symfonium and they're great

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Navidrome uses the subsonic API but is actively developed and works great.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Ok so I just installed Navidrome and the web UI looks modern and promising. However it seems to have the same bug as other services I tried earlier: If the artist name or album name has any umlaut letters (like ä, ö, ü) then all tracks on that album are displayed twice on my mobile client (have tried substreamer, ultrasonic, tempus). Any idea what's causing that for me?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I have a lot of music using umlaut and all other kinds of accented characters, even Japanese characters, and never had issues with them. Try symfonium client and see it you have the issue. I'll check tempus with my server to see it there's anything wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    I'm using Navidrome and Symfonium on my phone, I have no issues with any umlaut or special characters (å ä ö, japanese, korean, etc) displaying double, did a double-check now as well. Don't think I had any issues when using tempo either. Things I would check (if not already done): Are the songs / albums tagged correctly Are multiple sources active in the client?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    I don't have any solution for you, but I'm just adding some information to the conversation; I use Gonic as a server and Ultrasonic as a client and it does not have any issues displaying umlaut or any other special characters.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Navidrome checks all my boxes. I don't seem to have the same issues you are having with umlaut letters tho. I'd check tags/metadata. MusicBrainz, Mp3tag, Foobar2000, Beets, can help with that.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Nextcloud has an app called Music which contains subsonic and ampache servers.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Mainly jellyfin and I have a navidrome backup

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    OP I'm fairly certain your issue is with your music file metadata rather than the software. I suspect if you clean it with musicbrainz picard or open it with a tag editor you will find its using slightly different characters in different metadata fields. You can test this by loading up one of the offending files, clearing all of its metadata and see if that looks better!

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    There's Swingmusic and Funkwhale, the former closer to Navidrome, the latter with... nice features (federation, built in library management) and issues (slow development cycle, bugridden Android app).

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I've been using Finamp for a few months now. I like the beta version that allows me to download music to my phone for offline use. I added Audiomuse and I really like the smart playlist creations. 10 outta 10

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    https://lyrion.org/ happy with it after trying both navidrome and jellyfin

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Moved from subsonic to jellyfin, never looked back. Jellyfin does music and movies and TV shows, the only bit I miss is jukebox mode

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I use Jellyfin with the Symfonium mobile client.

    Navidrome is popular but does not support multi-tags for some fields, like artists.

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