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 use symfonium, you do have to pay for it but imo it’s a great music player. It links to multiple services (not just jellyfin) and can play local files.
While I have finamp, I mostly use navidrome. Its there for ease of access, but TBC if I want music I use the music server.
Same content accessed by the navidrome server anyway.
My wife uses finamp, but she doesn’t download, doesn’t do complex playlists, etc. About the only time she points out an issue is when she goes through a dead zone for cell coverage here and there.
I just remembered how I can access my Navidrome, but apparently my PW manager is out of date for that service. 😅
Have you tried the release Finamp or beta? Beta is a much different beast and I love it
Installed it today. Looks(sounds) good so far.
I was in the same boat, so I set up a Navidrome server (others have mentioned it here, too). I specifically use Tempus and DSub2000 as the client apps on Android. I think DSub2000 hits exactly what I want. haven’t touched Tempus in a couple months.
Bonus, for desktop listening, I use Supersonic.
Thanks! My Navidrome instance is still up. So I’m gonna check it out.
I just went through every possible client I could find for android myself. I was mostly interested in a decent offline download experience and turns out all clients that advertised them as being offline-first were terrible.
Got stuck on Symfonium and will likely make the purchase, works really well in comparison to everything else out there.
People have already recommended Symfonium and it’s great. But I want to recommend Twelve, the music app for LineageOS. It integrates with both Jellyfin and Subsonic. It’s clean and simple (I hate how some clients require more than one tap to access the album list). And it’s free and open source. Only downside: you can’t download music for offline playback within the app.
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.
Finamp beta supports android auto and offline play (and can transcode the files while downloading to save space on my phone) in conjunction, so my frequently listened to playlists are available whether I have good data service or not.
Just got it via Obtainium. Good impressions so far, thanks!
You’re welcome! I’ve been super happy with Finamp, it completely replaced spotify for music in my car!
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 use Finamp Beta on both Linux and Android and have zero complaints.
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
