Subsonic

Nice write-up - although I thought you've built your own HARDWARE audio player first. However, I feel like this is one of the most re-invented wheels I've come across so far. Nobody seems to be happy, everybody seems to fail to build something that fits at least 80% of the requirements most people have. My personal K.O. criteria is a bit awkward in days of bluetooth and wireless devices: Working cable headphone remote controls like Apple devices had for more than 10 years now - especially useful for audio books. Years ago I tried to write a cross platform audio player[1] app with C# and Flutter inspired by iPod Nano 7g, but it always failed for the same reason: I could not get the headset controls working properly. I've also spent some days to submit a PR on audiobookshelf-app[2], but it didn't get merged, although it worked pretty good o

Airsonic [1] and all the other Subsonic forks do this, either use the web interface or one of the many client apps. I use DSub [1] for this, it works as intended and does not try to get you to do anything you don't want. [1] https://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced [2] https://github.com/daneren2005/Subsonic

> I'm now trying to properly tag and curate these media files and host it in some way that I can use it remotely. It's not a trivial job. Foobar2000 with discogs addon will help you with organization; musicbrainz picard will hello you with actually identifying your files if necessary. Airsonic is quite nice for actual hosting, and allows you to create multiple accounts with limited access and time-limited shares for playlists/albums/etc. I personally use fb2k with a dozen or so addons to organize my media library and playlists (the auto-playlists feature is nice). I use airsonic for hosting; on computers I use the web interface (or fb2k) for playback; on mobile I use dsub for playback. Bubbleupnp server is also installed locally so I can share/cast to receivers that don't support subsonic protocol, though I have yet to use this since I st

Enable the Subsonic API[1] and use DSub[2]. Work amazingly well. Not sure if you're not on Android, although I imagine there must be a decent subsonic client for most mobile platforms. [1] https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/API#subsonic-api [2] https://github.com/daneren2005/Subsonic