I have used Tempo but I self host Navidrome
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Not FOSS but I use Symfonium to stream music from my Navidrome instance on my NAS while I'm out of the house.
Edit, saw your last comment. What couldn't you get working?
What couldn’t you get working?
It was erroring out when I tried to set up either Webdav or SMB. Maybe I was setting it up wrong, but I've got those things set up on multiple devices and multiple apps without any trouble.
Ah, I can't speak Symfonium's WebDAV or SMB handling. My music server runs Navidrome that uses the subsonic api. All I have to do is point my music player at my url and I can sync favorites and listen counts across everything, it's pretty great.
My offline android music workflow:
- Server: Navidrome but any music server supporting Subsonic API would work here. Navidrome has a nice UI, and reads MusicBrainz IDs, and can scrobble to ListenBrainz, that's why I settled with this.
- Mobile app: Ultrasonic, on Fdroid. There are a lot of ways you can set up caching. I set up that it should automatically download everything from my "Now playing" playlist, at home on wifi I just add a bunch of albums and playlists to the "Now playing" list, it takes a while but it transcodes and downloads everything in a couple of minutes. It has very good Android Auto support, and a widget. Due to an annoying bug I had to downgrade to version 4.7.1, but otherwise I love it.
Tempo is my favorite Navidrome client at the moment.
I tried that recently. I didn't like that it doesn't have a widget, and the downloads and current playlist are completely separate. Also there was no option to automatically continue when connecting to a headset (this was working in Ultrasonic 4.8, but not in 4.7.1 I hope they fix that bug sometime...) So after some weeks use I switched back to Ultrasonic.
Oh, neat setup!
As other's have said Navidrome is the way to go. Not the most featureful, but it's so much faster than every other solution that you make it work. It's also very close to a huge update to support plugins and stuff.
I use the DSub app. Free from fdroid. Configured to download 10 songs in advance, for when I'm driving with spotty service, and download my favorites.
It also let's you set different internal and external IP addresses, if you need that. I think most people do unless you run a DNS server.
think most people do unless you run a DNS server.
Or you access Navidrome from inside a VPN.
LineageOS's default music app, Twelve, supports Jellyfin as a source:
But does it cache, or only stream?
I haven't tried it in she's but foobar2000 might do everything you're hoping for.
Like you, I'm confused there hasn't been an open source solution to this by now.
So, paid app (if you want wireless sync) - Media Monkey.
The Android app can read network shares and network media servers (I forget exactly what it can read). But it works best if you run the server app - then you can stream the library or sync media, similar to iTunes.
The Android app is free for basic functionality ($5 for wireless sync), the desktop/server app is free ($30 to enable wireless sync and a few other features). It's been worth it for me. Even the free versions work very well.
Emby will let you do it but you need a host server. Same with plexamp. Foobar2000 offers remote smb folder access but I don't remember if it works as the library of it it just lets you download the files from smb.
On my synology nas I have installed navidrome to serve the music, and consume it via web, and a few android and linux apps like ultrasonic or supersonic
Not sure how much it lines up with your specifics but I've used Neutron for ages and it supports WevDAV, SFTP, UPnP/DLNA amongst other things and sounds great (to my untrained eats anyway)