What’s the deal? Are people just going to continue to pay a never-ending rising cost of streaming? Surely this model can’t keep up, and I highly doubt people are listening to essentially the diverse catalog of music for that price. I’m willing to bet most people listen to the equivalent of a couple CDs in a month.
Are you guys just gonna keep paying for YouTube music as the price tops to $30 a month? Seems like every week these clowns are raising their prices.
I sync my music to my phone from my home server.
Do you do an automatic sync or manual drag and drop?
I use syncthing for my pictures from my phone to my server and I keep saying I will do the opposite for my music but I have not gotten it organized/tagged well enough yet and I keep putting it off.
We are stuck in the same spot. Musicbrainz Picard might help? I checked it out but metal genre tags range from simple to way too specific to poorly categorized. Might help you get the tagging done at least.
Picard works well, I played around with it but it is still a bit tedious.
I have Plex so it automatically copies selected playlists and such to my phone. Going to be switching to Jellyfin soon though but I’m guessing it has a similar feature.
I use SyncThing as well to keep certain files and such synced from my server, phone, and tablet. I also sync pictures and video to my server from my phone and tablet.
Does plex pull the playlist data and still stream the music or does it actually make a duplicate copy of the music files on your phone?
I kind of treat my phone as a pseudo backup of my pictures and music so I keep a full local copy on it.
It actually copies the music to the phone, but it’s an automatic caching. As far as I’m aware you can’t access the files directly and the app will handle refreshing/replacing the cache when it gets full. You absolutely shouldn’t use it as a backup of any kind.
edit: never mind, you can also properly download playlists/albums independently from the cache. TIL
It actually makes a copy on my phone of both the Playlist and Music it references.
However, Plex seems to be moving towards things other than local media so you may want to avoid it. The recent app design changes are putting streaming media and corporate profits ahead of the actual users. That is why I am looking to switch to Jellyfin.
Im using emby now for my main media hosing program but I don’t really like it or plex for music. On my mobile I use GoneMad but it doesn’t sync on its own.
I came across Symfonium last night and it looks like it will be a good alternative to plexamp and it’s supposed to work with multiple servers. I’ve used plex for around 10 years and have had a lifetime plexpass for nearly as long. The recent changes they have made pushing streaming first is the main reason why i am working to switch to something else.