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Plex Alternative (lemmy.tf)
submitted 11 months ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/foss@beehaw.org
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I have all my mp3s on my NAS. Over the years, I've been rating the tracks, standardizing the id3 tags, etc. I love my music collection. But the era of the single device experience is over and as such I need a little more. Up until now, I've been copying tracks over to my phone every time I need new portable music.

At one point I was using Clementine Music Player on my laptop and using Clementine Remote on my phone. But Clementine died and hasn't received an update in years.

I tried Plex but holy fuck, it made a mess of my collection. I couldn't search for tracks by rating and I couldn't do searches like "(genre: hip-hop OR genre: rap) AND rating>4)" which made it double useless for me.

So I guess my question is, is what can I point at my NAS music directories, which can allow me to stream music from my server when I'm in the house, will allow me to filter by ratings and anything else I like, fucks off the money grab which is the artists (plural) id3 tag, will allow me to update ratings from my phone or laptop and will allow me to copy to my local device for when I'm ready to leave out?

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[–] Snassek@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Have you tried Plexamp with Plex. While my music collection isn't as cleaned up as it sounds like yours is, but I just checked and you can create playlists with rules such as genre and ratings and other options.

[–] atomWood@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

While not FOSS, I do really enjoy Plexamp.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't, basically it keeps hanging in addition to the abortion that is the mangled tags support on my NAS and so I turned it off.