AlexQuestion to the #selfhosting crowd: What's a good server software for streaming music that has an iPhone app?
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Jordon Davidson@lx Plex and Plexamp work pretty well together.
@jordon They look nice, but they aren't free, right?
carbon offsets are BS ☕️🥬@plasma4045 @jordon I don’t know, I have trust issues with “lifetime” licenses. 😄
@plasma4045 @jordon Knowing my luck, they will discontinue it next month 😄
Stephen 🦇
Bram Diederik aka daft_dutch@lx does snapcast have a iphone app. What self respected do it your selfer uses iphone anyway.
ahoyboyhoy@bdiederik @lx snapcast is designed for LAN streaming to multiple speakers or groups of speakers in sync. It also requires a music source like Navidrome writing to a fifo file. Not what I'd recommend here
@ahoyboyhoy @lx works fine on my android over a vpn on the road
@bdiederik @lx oh really? You don't experience constant dropouts? I couldn't keep a stable signal over a single WiFi hop at home with < 1% packet loss.
@ahoyboyhoy @lx sometimes not constant. Cant use it when moving to fast
@bdiederik @lx the other disqualifer for me is that I prefer to download my music for offline playback and then sync over WiFi because I pay for data usage. I understand many have unlimited data though. This is another reason I use Subsonic clients (DSub primarily, looking Tempo lately).
Anthony Bosio@lx I’m about to try out Navidrome. I heard that’s the thing for this.
@abosio I also just read about it. Looks promising and the fact that it’s Airsonic-compatible makes the client choice easy. 🤔
Stretch882@lx Navidrome is the currently most recommended Subsonic API compatible server. Most Subsonic client apps will work well with Navidrome.
Stetsed 
@lx So in terms of being widespread, Navidrome is an awesome software and is Subsonic client compatible so basically has apps for everything under the sun.
However I am excited for the finamp beta(github.com/jmshrv/finamp/releases/tag/0.9.2-beta) which gives it alot cleaner of a look imho and would let me use my jellyfin for Movie + TV + Music which would be cool, however I haven't set up a proper music library yet so this is on the "SoonTM' pile of a mile long. #selfhosting #selfhost #selfhosted
However I am excited for the finamp beta(github.com/jmshrv/finamp/releases/tag/0.9.2-beta) which gives it alot cleaner of a look imho and would let me use my jellyfin for Movie + TV + Music which would be cool, however I haven't set up a proper music library yet so this is on the "SoonTM' pile of a mile long. #selfhosting #selfhost #selfhosted
André
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Jellyfin@lx If you're using Jellyfin, there's a lot of good clients out there. I'm personally partial to Finamp because it is fully open source (and has a great re-design in beta). There is also the closed-source Manet which does have CarPlay support as well.
SWAT
@swat I tried that and it was hanging every time I would play a song for the first time. Maybe it’s because my library has ALAC tracks but it wasn’t a great experience so far 🤔
Had issues with WMA in the past, but a convert with ffmpeg fixed that (but your issue seems different). It is easy to test though and then raise a bug in the project or the client (depending on where the issue resides).
I am solely on Android but noticed quite some differences between the several subsonic apps available. Try out several apps might also be beneficial ;-)
xRZNTx@lx I use a Navidrone server and connect to it with the substreamer iOS App.
Hydrian@lx Plex.