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?
Jellyfin is just a good media player. Syncthing is a file syncing tool.
What do you mean by “one or the other”?
The Jellyfin app already supports local downloads. And if using Syncthing to get your files locally you can use any player
Isn’t that just on a file-by-file basis though? I just assume most people won’t have an easy way to tunnel into their home network if they’re out to do streaming, and won’t go through the effort of downloading songs one by one, so Syncthing is just a good middle ground to copy all your music between devices and be done with it imo.
Yeah it’s like any other music streaming app
I’m thoroughly confused now. Are you using the Jellyfin app (or something hooked up to your server) on your phone or nah? If not, I would consider that a Syncthing-only setup, since it could be pointed to Plex or any files. No judgment and it’s fine if you disagree. I’m just curious what tools people use and how they use them
What I mean is that if I don’t have a connection to my home network where all my music is stored, but I want to access it locally on my phone, I am not going to open the Jellyfin app and individually download every single song in my library one-by-one just so I can listen to them on my phone.
As far as I’m aware, Jellyfin doesn’t have an option to simply “sync entire music library” to your phone offline, only download songs one-by-one when you want to download one in particular.
Jellyfin on my PC, an entirely separate Android app (Retro Music) on my phone because I prefer the UI.
I use Syncthing to give both my home PC running Jellyfin and my phone with Retro Music the same music library without needing an internet connection between either to work.
Sorry for the confusion, I think now I’m confused myself 💀