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What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
(sh.itjust.works)
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.
It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.
What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?
EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into "smaller" instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can't remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.
Does JellyFin have a equivalent Music Streaming Solution? Or does anyone know an other FOSS program?
I'm really attached to Plex Amp. It is everything that Play Music promised to be with automatic radio playlists.
I have 40 GB of music that I'd listen to for hours all day.
There are audio clients for Jellyfin, so you can absolutely host your music library with it. Personally I don't have any experience with that, so I won't be making recommendations.
Put your music on jellyfin, listen via https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp
Then enjoy your self holsted life:)
Jellyfin does allow you to import music and has its own library for it (it's pretty basic IMO though). For mobile streaming, I use Synfonium (Android) as a client and log into jellyfin from there There's also Navidrome which is a server and player and any app that uses subsonic can hook into Navidrome.
The self hosted music ecosystem is really terrible unfortunately. The main technology is airsonic or whatever it's called. You host it yourself and download a client on your phone or whatever. I tried all the free ones and they were unusable to me.
I've tried it before, but wasn't a big fan. I personally use navidrome, which is based on the subsonic music streaming API, of which there are a good amount of phone apps for. DSub and Ultrasonic are two for android.
It does and it has several plugings to improve it but Jellyfin is still not as good as Plex at Music or Video.
@Patches while there are music clients for jellyfin, in my experience you're much better off using a dedicated music server! Subsonic, Navidrome, FunkWhale are just some options!