VLC on mobile or desktop, SD card music folder synced with desktop and server
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At work, youtube with ublock origin, adblock plus, etc, preventing the ads
Sometimes I'll stream stuff from bandcamp
On the move, the SD card in my phone (with pairdrop.net to upload albums) playing through VLC
Is there a way to prevent the "are you still watching" shit on YouTube? I do the same and that's the one drawback.
Ah, that I don't know.
I spend a lot of time listening to a "Live" stream and that doesn't seem to have thst problem... but if I listen to a playlist, yeah I have that problem.
However, I often have to stop to speak to someone / get coffee, so that seems to reset the timer so it's not toooo bad for me
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I use Vanilla music. It was the only music player I found that would keep my place in my long running playlist that I have on shuffle all the time. It gets through all the songs, shuffles, and then queues through all the songs again, reshuffled. Other players I tested would forget the place, or that music was playing in the first place, and that was frustrating.
I stream it to my computer by connecting my phone to my computer via Bluetooth. I think it's was a new KDE feature, but now my Linux laptop will pretend to be a headset/speakers, and the Android phone will just play to it. It's so amazing. Because then I can listen to audio from both my phone and my computer at once pretty easily, and keep my spot in that one playlist I keep running. Unfortunately, it has an annoying issue where it drops out (but doesn't pause the audio) when the CPU is used too much. Lemmy post: https://programming.dev/post/45725312
When I want a more reliable setup, like when I am compiling things, I usually plug my phone into my computer and use srcpy. This can stream the android screen to the computer over ADB, but I just stream the audio, since that's all I care about.
GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.
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Im just using Symphony to play my local files on phone which sync with my server over synchting whenever I add some new tracks. My "Server" is to slow for streaming...
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
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Just termux for android.
I download music using yt-dlp, then I use a few bash scripts to play/shuffle/filter etc.
Main advantage is simple playlists I can make with mkdir and symlinks.
I have a local Jellyfin server and use the Jellify app when I'm out on my phone.
I have a Pandora subscription. Trying to make it play nice with Music Assistant.
In my living room, Kodi. On PC, Strawberry Music Player. On android phone, Musicolet.
Music Assistant most of the time. Sometimes I just use Symfonium directly but they both tap into my Navidrome server.
Navidrome + Subsonic Streamer + feishin
Jellyfin client on mobile and AndroidTV, and Strawberry on PC. All my music is on my NAS, which Jellyfin server and CIFS/SMB can access.
Keep meaning to look into Music Assistant for Home Assistant, as I have the latter.
Personal Jellyfin server for my own vinyl, CD, and cassette tape rips.
Grayjay for streaming.
Youtube music i get a discount from my phone provider.
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Moved to Apple Music after Rogan started airing on Spotify. Hence Apple Music on the phone, streaming through Cider on Arch otherwise
Edit: I could not work with local files or my own file server because of the breadth and amount of music I listen to. I’d have to have a massive collection and constantly keep buying 🤑