I am currently making my digital life better and more sustainable for every party involved. One of the topics I am changing is music. I want music artists to get a fair share for the music I am listening to. The only way to do that is to actually buy music from them. If possible, through Bandcamp.
I cleaned up my old library of music files and am slowly adding all the music I love and used to stream.
To make this work for me, I investigated a lot and tested a ton of tools. I think I now have found my sweet spot. With apps that I love and are good looking, at least enough to actually use them daily without constantly thinking, “Oh my god, is this really worth it”.
This is what my stack currently looks like:
Jellyfin
Our files are hosted on our trusted Synology server and use Jellyfin as our media server. I also installed a last.fm plugin so that Jellyfin does all the scrobbling and I don’t have to limit myself to apps that also do that. Pretty nifty.
Gelly
On Gnome I found this really nice looking app. Highly recommended. Every day I am impressed by how good the Gnome apps look. And this is no exception. I will need to create a separate post about all the things I use on Gnome sometime soon.
Manet
This is the app I use on my iPhone and work Mac. It looks really nice and has all the features I need.
Symfonium
I now also own an Android tablet. And this is the best app I found for this. There are tons of apps for Android phones that can connect to Jellyfin, but none had at least a half decent tablet layout. This has. So it won.
