I have tried looots of Music apps, Both Android and Linux.

I currently go with Anrimians Music Player on Android.

On Linux I simply use VLC Flatpak, and currently for the 4.0 “beta” I use Distrobox with an Ubuntu 22.04 Container and their PPA. The latest VLC Flatpak should have the FLAC stuttering issue fixed though.

So my problem is this:

  • as I find Playlists weird on Linux, I always focusser on folder-baser Musicplayers
  • but duplicating songs is not possible there, so I restrict the possibilities a lot
  • I would like to sync most music between phone and Laptop using Syncthing, and also the Playlists.

Now I wonder how this would work. For simplicity my sync structure currently is:

#Android
/storage/emulated/0/--SYNC-- 
#goes to
/home/user/Handy-Backup/--SYNC--

#Android
/storage/emulated/0/Music
#goes to
/home/user/Handy-Backup/Music

I hate how Android handles permissions for the Music folder, how all apps use it etc, because its more of a pain to sync. But all the Playlist .m3u files land here.

What would be a way to sync the Playlists AND the music folder and have it work? How do m3u files work, do they use variable Directories like “in this folder, subfolder ALBUM1”?

Thinking about that I guess it would be best to put all music into Android Music folder, right? As the M3U files are probably referring to files in the same dir then and everything works.

  • @[email protected]
    8•1 year ago

    I’m Selfhosting Jellyfin (navidrome too, but I think I like Jellyfin more), so it’s all central on my homeserver.

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        Install it on your desktop. Sync only if you are at home via wifi. There are a lot Subsonic API players where you can download songs or playlists, and listen to them offline.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        Understandable. The best I can think of is using syncthing with playlist files. Tell us if you find something good.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    What I do is have a separate /synced/media/music folder on both my pc and phone, and use syncthing for that and don’t worry about the default Android music folder.

    For playlists I do that on my pc with the music player Strawberry, I can add songs to a playlist and save it as a .m3u file in that same /synced/media/music folder. The playlists still work on my phone since it’s just local paths from the root of my music folder. I would do playlists on my phone as well but I use JetAudio which is pretty buggy and doesn’t let me modify .m3u playlists, although I’m sure some other player would let you create and modify them.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    Umm… I don’t. I use CMUS which uses its own playlist structure, and on top of all that, I make changes to my music collection on my phone that I am yet to sync over to my Linux machine and then to a USB which acts as a backup solution. I know that in the sysadmin realm they say “2 is 1, 1 is none”, but that usually goes for untested backups, or backups that can be lost in various ways. Personally, if I have my music collection (or at least most of it on 3 different devices most of the time and on at least 2 devices at 100% of the time (when I’m tinkering with my phone or distrohopping), I’d say I’m pretty safe.

  • @[email protected]
    2•1 year ago

    I only use like three playlists so I wrote a script to make .m3u playlists with those artists but it’s not perfect cause it pulls the data from the file path and not the metadata

    I am now realizing this isn’t very helpful but I copy only a bit of music from my hard drive to my phone cause limited space so the scripts keep the playlists the same mostly

    Edit: I just realized this asked about syncing. Oops. I guess I sync by copying music to my phone and then pointing the scripts to read the music folder there instead of the hard drive but I realize now that might not be what you want

  • @BitSound
    1•1 year ago

    Dunno what permissions issues you’re hitting, but I organize everything with beets on my desktop and then sync everything using syncthing to the main Music folder on my phone and it all works nicely. I use an old app that I think isn’t even available on the app store anymore named MortPlayer that uses the synced folder structure to organize things.

    I don’t use m3u files, but I imagine you could just sync them to the main Music directory next to the music files and have it work out, I guess depending on which app you use

  • dinckel
    1•1 year ago

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  • @[email protected]
    1•1 year ago

    I’m Selfhosting Jellyfin (navidrome too, but I think I like Jellyfin more), so it’s all central on my homeserver.