High Quality Offline Music

A brief overview of how to enjoy high quality music without subscribing to a privacy-invasive and usually lower-quality music streaming service like Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer, etc.

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I really want to do this, but I have yet to find a self-hosted app that has the features from iTunes that I love: smart playlists (with an easy to edit interface), play stats (last played, last skipped, play counts skip count), and editable metadata (can change genres of the a song or several songs within the app).

Easily editable smart playlists would be table stakes for me. I can get by without the rest, though I’d be less happy than with iTunes.

I use Plexamp and the smart playlists are pretty great on that.
Offline mode is so bad it’s unusable
I’ve not experienced that. I usually rely on a single offline playlist on shuffle whenever I do lose internet, but that has been the status quo for me for some time