I’m self-hosting my music collection (synology NAS), and while I’ve liked Poweramp, it only reads local music files, which means I have to copy many GB of music to my phone, even if I’m not particularly listening to it.
The Synology DS Audio app actually does what I want: it caches music locally as you’re streaming it, but it reads directly from the NAS.
The only problem with DS Audio is that it sucks as an actual music player.
Are there any Android music players, preferably FOSS or at least privacy-friendly, that will read from the NAS and cache in an intelligent way but also works well as an actual music player?
I did try Symfonium, but couldn’t get it to work with Webdav or SMB, plus the dev comes off as a real asshole, so I’d rather not give them money.
Not FOSS but I use Symfonium to stream music from my Navidrome instance on my NAS while I’m out of the house.
Edit, saw your last comment. What couldn’t you get working?
It was erroring out when I tried to set up either Webdav or SMB. Maybe I was setting it up wrong, but I’ve got those things set up on multiple devices and multiple apps without any trouble.
Ah, I can’t speak Symfonium’s WebDAV or SMB handling. My music server runs Navidrome that uses the subsonic api. All I have to do is point my music player at my url and I can sync favorites and listen counts across everything, it’s pretty great.
I decided on Symfonium as well - especially once I realised the author, Tolriq, was the same on who’d made Yatse, my favourite Kodi remote. Tolriq is an indie developer and always has very fair pricing and excellent support, so I’m happy to pay (once, per app) for a polished experience.
Ohh damn, the same dev made Yatse. That’s awesome, I’ve been using that app for years.