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[DEV] Symfonium: Music player & cast, the self hosted music player (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by Tolriq@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I never officially introduced Symfonium here and if this breaks the rules please remove the post.

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So with version 6.0.0 just released Symfonium is now feature complete, to fully embrace most self hosted music scenario as it was planned to be. Took me some more time than planned :)

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So Symfonium is an advanced Android music player (Paid app with free trial) that support most self hosted music solutions to fully enjoy your music anywhere and allows aggregation of multiple servers.

It currently support:

- The local storage of the phone (SDCard,...)

- Emby

- Jellyfin

- Subsonic

- OpenSubsonic (A long term effort that I started to improve Subsonic clients and servers https://github.com/opensubsonic/open-subsonic-api. Already quite a few new features for some servers)

- Kodi

- Plex

- Samba (SMB v2/v3)

- WebDAV

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It's an offline first solution with tons of features, like AutoEQ support, smart filters, personal mixes, transcoding, replaygain, ...

But I don't want to make this post a long list of features, just wanted more people to be aware of this relatively new music player dedicated to self hosting.

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And if there's other well established music self hosting solution with a proper API do not hesitate to ask for support so I can look into it.

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Website: https://symfonium.app/

PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.symfonik.music.player

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[–] CGA1@alien.top 2 points 10 months ago

Symfonium is one of the very few apps I have bought during my 10 plus years as an Android user. It's an absolute gem that really ticks all the boxes.

[–] BobcatGreat6395@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

As a big fan of the app, I would recommend everyone to give it a try!

[–] CWagner@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Love it, amazing app that’s very well designed (not just good-looking, which it also is). I use it to play from Jellyfin, and kinda-offline (via the convenient cache function) to save data ;)

I recently started having an issue when switching between 2 BT outputs, having to force-close it, do you want bug reports in your forum, or elsewhere?

[–] Tolriq@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes proper bug report with logs on the forum, but the app have nothing really related to BT, was you phone updated to Android 14?

[–] CWagner@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Nope, no Android update, just started happening, I think between Friday and Monday at some point. Will post :)

[–] jimmycoconut88@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I bought the app this year to use it with my navidrome instance, gotta say I love the design and functionality. Thanks a lot for your work.

[–] Icannotfindnow@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any chance of getting this on F-Droid? I currently use subtracks for my Navidrome instance but would love to try this out.

[–] Tolriq@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

No, it's a closed source app. And even then it uses closed source Google libraries that are incompatible with F-Droid.

[–] Madiator2011@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sadly im iOS user :/

[–] BobcatGreat6395@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

You can check out substreamer but honestly I find symfonium far better both UI wise but functionality wise as well.

[–] Best-Expert@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

This is one of my favorite music app. I wish it had a custom lock screen like musicolet though.

[–] Deathbot64@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

How does this compare to Plexamp?

[–] AngelGrade@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Why doesn't this exist for iOS?

[–] One-Main5244@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To bad am an IOS user, looks neat.
Plans to support spotify?
I'd love an app where I can use my own music files and spotify together.
I know spotify supports local music but it is clunky and most of the time screws up somehow.

[–] Tolriq@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

No plans for Spotify this is the opposite of Self Hosting :p And not really compatible with the offline first approach the app use.

But I know one user have built a server that expose Spotify as Subsonic server to achieve this.

Maybe you can convince him to make his project public :)

https://support.symfonium.app/t/sync-terminates-early/2572

[–] Photex@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

been using this with Plex and Plexamp on the desktop, it works pretty great as i'm slowly trying to remove myself from the Spotify eco-system.

Also it has great Android Auto support which is essential these days.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I'd installed this yesterday and have already bought it - lovely work, thanks. My only request would be perhaps support long-press tool tips to explain what the icons do.

I expected I'd like it, because I also paid for your Yatse many moons ago.