Forgot to also mention:

• full equaliser compatible with thousands of preset profiles for whatever headphones you have
• android auto
• programmable default actions (like touching a song either plays it or queues it)
• multiple queues - each time you manually start a track / playlist a new queue is created and you can swap back and forth between queues as you wish.
• ACTIVE DEVELOPER!! - Tolriq the dev is always updating it and very active in the community, they just want to make the best music player possible

Like the other guy said, Symfonium is the one and only true answer.

Quick rundown of features:

• playlist sorting
• smart playlists (auto generated by filters)
• fully customisable now playing screens
• fully customisable home menus
• casting via UPnP (think sonos, any other wifi enabled speaker ecosystem)
• stats tracking
• scrobbling to your tracking service (listenbrainz, lastFM)
• transcoding support (depending on server - jellyfin cant but navidrome transcodes perfectly)
• smart queue
• personalised mixes
• radio mixes
• downloadable media for offline play
• track / album rating system
• favourites

Symfonium does things that no other media player I know of can do, for example:

I try to rate my music as i listen to it and while I do that, every song i rate 5 stars goes to an automatically generated playlist of 5 star music only. From there it auto downloads to offline cache in OGG OPUS 320 format to keep quality and reduce space used (My library is all FLAC).

From there I have created a playlist that incorporates the 5 star playlist with some other parameters to create an even larger playlist which, you guessed it, is all automatically done for me.

Now I could have a bunch of these playlists combined in different ways (rating defined, mood defined, genre defined, BPM defined) and I can choose to either shuffle them when pressing play, start a personal mix which uses your stats to alter the queue of the playlist or I could order the whole thing by increasing BPM or year.

It is an incredibly powerful tool to listen to your music and I will never be able to go back to spotify playlists or any sort of algo picking what I listen to.

As far as i understand it, its a seperate dev branch and plugins arent intended to be introduced to the main branch.

Its exactly the same otherwise and when i swapped i didnt have to reimport any music etc.

Been working much better than the containers you can get like lidarr-on-steroids because they dont get updated nearly enough whereas i can keep both my lidarr and deemix containers up to date.

If you change to the plugin branch of lidarr you can add it and away you go. Much better than torrents or usenet and then you can also integrate soulseek via another plugin for anything not on deezer (very little anyway)

This is the best and most cohesive answer.

I use all these things mentioned with a deezer hifi subscription and deemix running as a lidarr addon, that way all i have to do it select an artist on lidarr and boom ive got their discography in minutes.

As for discovery, listenbrainz is a great tool to see what other people with similar taste listen to and it makes potential playlists for you.

HOWEVER, i can not recommend enough just downloading entire collections of artists you like or full albums instead of single songs and hitting shuffle. I have discovered so much new music for me thats been out for years by artists i love that i didnt know existed. This is what lidarr does really well in terms of the collecting music.

Symfonium is also an amazing app for using your navidrome server bar none. All the customisation and features it offer are just so much better than any streaming service app by miles and miles.

Good luck!

No problem!

We did the same thing, wrote out a small, basic set of guidelines outlining why we didnt want anything on social media or big tech clouds among a few other things.

Most family downloaded signal straight away which was a bonus to be able to possibly fuck off messenger in the future.

As long as you make it as easy as possible (within reason, dont bend over backwards if someone doesnt want to comply for no good reason) for others within your boundaries then it will end up being mostly painless.

Also congratz on becoming soon to be new parents! Sleep as much as possible now! Haha… Aha… Ha…

Something you need to consider even before all this, is what other people will do with the photos once they have them.

I’ve been through a similar situation recently and had to lay out ground rules for what people were allowed to do with the photos and where they could be saved. I made the condition that if they wanted to see photos I would only send them through signal. Past that point you just need to trust that grandma who downloads the image to her iphone doesnt have iCloud enabled by default and boom your childs image is now in the hands of apple. (Or any other auto backup cloud host)

Be prepared for some outright childish behaviour from people you thought were adults when you tell them they cant take their own photos unless they show you they dont have auto sync to iCloud enabled…

The only way to truly keep your kids image out of the cloud is to never let anyone else have possession of it to begin with unfortunately.

Did you read it? It definitely has the tone of supporting the break up…

I’ve got an LG C1 and have been using homebrew with Dev mode for a while now.

Can confirm it is very easy to do if you have a basic tech knowledge base.

The only inconvenience is sometimes after updates it will delete the homebrew apps but its a 5 minute job to get them back and ive only had it happen probably 3 times over a year.

“Youtube no ads” - the homebrew app, works flawlessly as if it were the original app with all of your subs etc but every now and then a tiny banner comes up begging me to subscribe to premium which I actually love because I can keep telling them to fuck off. The frequency of the little banner is probably once every few times you open the app and its non-intrusive.

Overall the LG dev mode trick with the Youtube No Ads app has been the cleanest and most enjoyable out of the box experience compared to alternative frontends etc.