I have over 3 TB of music. SD cards aren't quite that big yet.

whts yr slsk info? lol

sure, then in your case, if you absolutely must have access to it all at one time, then home streaming makes sense.

for me, and i do imagine most ppl (tho i could be wrong!), it doesn't make sense compared to just returning to local.

genius that i am, i only realized that AFTER i setup a jellyfin server on my home server for streaming my music. XD derp.

I use navidrome. And what's nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.

In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.

Navidrome with Symfonium for Android and the Web interface or my new favorite Feishin for Desktop Linux

I was hoping to go all in with Jellyfin, but it's been absolutely maddening to try to get it to play nice with my curated library. It just makes too many dumb assumptions about artist metadata.

Any other suggestions?

EDIT: I installed Navidrome, then poured over the documentation for the config file and micromanaged every setting. This has allowed me to get damn near close to the exact unobtrusive behavior I had hoped for.

EDIT 2: AFA mobile client goes, I'd absolutely consider paying for Symphonium, if it didn't seem to require my having a Google Play account (fuck that). So instead I'm trying Tempo.

You'll know it when you find it.

Jellyfin.
On the phone it's only usable at home because I don't have a VPN in place.
But I could stream via the web ui which is not convenient.

muahaha.. daw

my library is already tough to sift through.

20,000 mainly flacs and it's still less than 500gb

SD Card on my phone. i don't stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.

edit don't look for solutions to problems you don't have. most ppl don't NEED to stream everything over the internet.

go back to local.

SD Card on my phone. i don't stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.

edit don't look for solutions to problems you don't have. most ppl don't NEED to stream everything over the internet.

go back to local.

So you only listen to music on one device? If not, do you swap the SD card between devices all the time or do you have a separate SD card for all devices? How do you keep them in sync, transfer playlists, etc? What if you have more than 2TB?

Yeah, go local as in: Run your own media server and stream from that.

But only keeping music files on the end device is a step in the wrong direction.

SD Card on my phone. i don't stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.

edit don't look for solutions to problems you don't have. most ppl don't NEED to stream everything over the internet.

go back to local.

beets for library organization, gonic for serving, Tempo for consuming

The only reason I still have a s20fe. The last of the sd card phones... sigh

i listen on two devices: my phone and my PC.

depends on ppl's use cases. a home media server is over-engineered solution for me, and perhaps others. but it's good to stop for second and consider what one's needs actually are.

Right, but considering that OP is already running a media server and also is looking for a way to curated his library, I don't see how switching to on-device storage would be anything but a downgrade.

The only reason I still have a s20fe. The last of the sd card phones... sigh

I was hoping to go all in with Jellyfin, but it's been absolutely maddening to try to get it to play nice with my curated library. It just makes too many dumb assumptions about artist metadata.

Any other suggestions?

EDIT: I installed Navidrome, then poured over the documentation for the config file and micromanaged every setting. This has allowed me to get damn near close to the exact unobtrusive behavior I had hoped for.

EDIT 2: AFA mobile client goes, I'd absolutely consider paying for Symphonium, if it didn't seem to require my having a Google Play account (fuck that). So instead I'm trying Tempo.

I use navidrome. And what's nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.

In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.