I use Finamp with Jellyfin for audio

https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp

I also use Finamp for audio streaming (or local, downloaded playback). It's a good app, but still lacking a lot of features other audio players have, like rearranging the play queue. I'd suggest also trying [Gelli](https://github.com/dkanada/gelli), which seems to be a more mature app for music playback.

In the past I wasn't super thrilled by Jellyfin's audio streaming (nor Plex's tbh).

I'm auditioning Subsonic at the moment, but I might give Ampache a go soon (it's apparently having a bit of a revival at the moment).

Also check out funkwhale!

Funkwhale is awesome, but it's also one of those FOSS projects whose website doesn't exactly illustrate what it exactly is or what it's exactly for, so here's a direct link to straightforward answers for both of those questions

https://docs.funkwhale.audio/features.html#scope

I want to say +1 for funkwhale, but I didn't get it to work with the subsonic client and haven't found yet a way to download/cache songs from my library on the phone. Have you figured this out?

Subsonic phone clients were kind of a crapshoot last I checked. Ultrasonic was the only one that kinda worked for me.

https://github.com/ultrasonic/ultrasonic

Ahh no I haven't, if that's not working then it might be better to stick with subsonic...

Airsonic is also nice. I was a long time (paying) Subsonic user, but got a bit fed up with it and migrated.

Another comment not from GP, but I'd recommend Polaris. It's very light (unlike Airsonic), FOSS all the way, and has a functional web client (again unlike Subsonic). Can't recommend it enough

I would like to look up Polaris but my searching skills seem to be lacking. Might you have a web site for it that you could share?

had a hard time too but I think it's this https://github.com/agersant/polaris

An alternative is to use a cloud based player, and stream music from a cloud storage service.

Disclaimer: I run this service: https://asti.ga/

I've written up some alternatives at https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0...

I'd love to know any feedback you have.

I have close to 3 tb of music, storing it all offsite is prohibitively expensive at the hundreds of dollars per month level, so that service is not good for me.

Depends what you mean by prohibitively... you can store that for $5/month...

I tried out Jellyfin for music, but it kept messing up my music tagging. I switched to Navidrome last year. It works with all subsonic clients and has a great web UI.

I'd love audio streaming suggestions too, I've been running Kodi on an old fire tablet to stream music from a Synology NAS but it's surprisingly flaky

Just try Navidrome!

I use navidrome with bobob and it works great!

bonob acts as a media libary bridge so sonos can use navidrome as a media library (instead of having to use a janky old version of smb auth that sonos requires)

i use navidrome but no folder view, so mixtapes with many artist is counted like many albums

Just tag the tracks of you mixtape with "compilation=true": https://www.navidrome.org/docs/faq/#i-have-an-album-with-tra...

maybe you could try https://github.com/sentriz/gonic (nightly build)

it supports browsing by folder