alt Hacker NewsI switched over to Emby a while back for video, but kept plex in a limited capacity for music since I really like Plexamp.
The thing I really like about plex was that 99% of the time, it would scan and match up my media, even if file formats were inconsistent. That was a growing pain for Emby, so it was another reason I kept plex for music.
Is there a good alternative to plex for music?
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I've used Gonic[1] for music server purposes and Symfonium[2] for streaming said music for a while now, nothing but good things to say about both. The only downside is it does not do automatic media tagging like Plex, but if you ingest with something like MusicBrainz Picard[3] then it'll never be a problem.
[1] https://github.com/sentriz/gonic [2] https://www.symfonium.app/ [3] https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
The closest alternative that I've found to Plexamp is MusicAssistant. It's still really rough around the edges as a full replacement. For example: Smart playlists are lacking and/or don't work at all; "Recently Added Albums" goes by file modified time and not when it was actually _added_ (and they fought me on this saying I'm wrong that it doesn't seem right)
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+1 for MusicAssistant. I have been using it for about 2 weeks with Plex as the source, but MA as the player after "we" (my wife) decided Spotify is too expensive.
Handing off between devices is my current pain point with it. It can group players so that you can do multi-room synced play, but I use that to hand off from my desktop to my phone. You can transfer the active playlist to another device. But in either case it's a manual interaction and doesn't "just happen". To be fair, I didn't have 100% success rate with Spotify doing this correctly either. Sometimes it did it, sometimes it just started in its own world.
The MA IOS app is REALLY rough; but I have had very good success with Xonara on ios, which is currently available through testflight.