Beets is too much work. I don't always have shell around nor I want to remote for this. This thing I use works on whatever machine I am currently.
I use jelly for convenience to connect to my media server when I am not at home. At home, I always use foobar2k which simply rocks for precise search and randomly generated lists (I even use SQL for this, via plugin). Its playing capabilities are far from any jelly like streaming server. Jelly is very bad at non-typical case, you can't even share a link to the current playlist and if left alone, after a day or two I have to reload jelly home page and go from there again, as anything that was left in the browser for a couple of days stops working until I reload from home.
If I can't pick what to listen to I quite like radiooooo, Radio Paradise, Radio Meuh, etc.
For stuff not on mb I use fb2k as it has a fairly decent tagger and move it to the local external drive, which is synced to the server.
At home I usually just use fb2k to play to my sound system via an interface, and on the go I use play:Sub connected to the navidrome instance transcoded to 160k OPUS (initially over tailscale but now via portforward/cloudflare and soon cloudflare tunnel)