So as the title suggests I’m looking to leave behind Spotify for many obvious reasons over the previous years.
I’m thinking that because of my fairly limited music library that I should just stick with an offline library. However I want the option to expand it as I find new music here and there.
I know that I can use things such as Jellyfin to organise a library on my PC, but are there good options to “sync” the library to my phone other than just simply drag and drop the media?
My combo is Jellyfin+Symfonium
With Symfonium you can manually download playlists and favorites for offline, and/or have a “rolling cache” where the most frequent listens are automatically kept synced for offline listening.
My collection is far too large to keep on my phone in its entirety, but with Symfonium I don’t need to, and if I’m ever caught without internet, I’ve still plenty to listen to.
Jellyfin does not organize the music, it’s a way to browse and access it. For a nice client for desktop, look at Feishin.
To actually organize the music, you want something like Picard.
Is it on F-Droid? It’s a PITA to install play store apps because I’d have to install play store (bleh) so I’m hoping symfonium has a github or something so I could use Obtainium.
Symfonium is not open source. It is a paid app by a helpful and responsive sole dev.
If you want FOSS, that’s Finamp. But it is not as good. It does also implement offline play features.
The Symfonium dev has responded to and implemented two requests of mine, making me quite happy to pay for and mention their app.