amperfy

Recently I gave up on Apple Music. The clients had gotten so bad from a UX perspective that I found it frustrating to use. Especially on desktop. There is also no easy way to cache your _entire_ library to disk. Other services+clients are heaps of Electron that I'd rather avoid. It took some effort and pain but I have a pretty solid self-hosted system now that requires no futzing around: 0. epoupon's Lightweight Music Server (LMS) [0] is an awesome, barebones Subsonic client written in C. It's really good and deserves to be more well-known. 1. wrtag [1] is a less-fully-featured beets written in Go that handles tagging. 2. amperfy [2] is an excellent Subsonic client that runs on iOS. It's configured to automatically cache anything and everything on LMS. 3. Syncthing [3] syncs music files. Needs no introduction. Rock solid. 4. Swinsian [4]

I'm hyped about Amperfy but it doesn't have gapless playback which is a hard must for me. Last time I checked, anyway. Looks like it's been committed recently though: https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/issues/96 Also it seems transcoding is mp3 only, whereas play:Sub can use (and seems to default to using) OPUS which is better in every conceivable way. Edit: Trying gapless with the TestFlight - seems to work, however, it doesn't change the displayed track.

I tried this (among a bunch of others) about a year ago and landed on Gonic[1] for the server and Supersonic[2] on PC and Amperfy[3] on mobile. Yes it's a few different tools to maintain (plus beets etc), but it's the ideal set of features etc for me. Self-hosting has been fun and I've started experimenting with local LLMs to build playlists which is helping discoverability.. or more /rediscovering/ artists that I haven't listened to in a while [1] https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/ [2] https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic [3] https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy

You can self-host something like Navidrome/Ampache and use a subsonic app like Amperfy https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy and download your whole library (or cache as you go along playing tracks).

RSS is only dead to those who don't know how to use it or lack imagination, what a weird thing to say really. Personally I've been using it for a myriad of things ever since 2007, just recently I discovered you can add .atom to GitHub releases e.g. https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/releases.atom for a nice list of updates. I like how neatly I can keep track of everything in one place without having to run around the web and deal with all the madness. If the feed is full of crap I can filter it out with www.feedrinse.com RSS brings order to chaos, it keeps the signal-to-noise ratio under my control in a world bent on exploiting my web usage