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With regards to your music library, how do you listen to your music on the go? I tried the self-hosted setup maybe 8 years ago and couldn't find a reliable way to stream to an iOS device. Is that something you've looked into?

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I recently setup Navidrome (https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome) for listening to my music collection, and it’s pretty good. Kodi/Plex work, but their apps are really built for the video use case, music is different enough that I like having the specialized tool.

Navidrome supports the Subsonic API, so there are a number of native clients compatible with it. I chose Substreamer on iOS. It’s not free, but it’s a one-time cost that doesn’t try and drag you into any subscriptions or anything. There are free alternatives like iSub, but I found their UI lacking & decided Substreamer was worth the few bucks.

MPD plus MAFA works well with android and it has an IOS version. Personally I only use it around the house but it ought to work fine if you forward the port. Even though phone storage is ridiculously cheap now it is kind of nice not to worry about keeping it in sync in terms of both music and playlists and seamlessly switch from local playback to streaming.

I use Plex. There is a music focused player called Plexamp which I use on iOS. This allows also offline downloads. IIRC you need the Plex Pro subscription, but that's around $100 one-off payment.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plexamp/id1500797510

I use the android version and it is great.

Plex does music for free, and offline downloads are available if you get Plex Pass (and the lifetime plan is an incredible value)

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