When I go on vacation I prefer to keep my smartphone with WiFi and mobile data off, but I really don’t like the way Spotify handle offline content. Most of the time it doesn’t download everything and when I do a research, it show me even content that’s not available offline (how can it do that?). Is there a selfhosted service that I can use to download my playlists and play them with an Android app that can download them?
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Lidarr to download music, has Spotify playlist integration, only problem is it pulls by alblum not by song.
LMS to play music, it supports selecting tags to use.
Picard to tag the music. Kinda optional, but using plugins it can pull genre, moods, and BPM, which I liked using to make a smart playlist to get songs I like the sound of without 100% hand picking out of thousands.
The music isn’t tagged in Lidarr with Musicbrainz or whatever? Does Picard do more than that?
Picard allows you to tag with more things, I have it set to pull mood from MusicBrainz which lidarr didn’t appear to do. Lidarr also does it on the album level where Picard does it by track, so I was getting country in with a rock playlist from lidarr.
Other notable plugins replay gain 2.0 tag support and BPM, not an expert with Picard by far so there is probably some more cool things that can be done.
I personally use lidarr to download and picard to tag, but use plex/plexamp to listen locally and on my phone
Plex does their own tagging system which is why everyone says plexamps good, though they don’t tag the media files directly. I am avoiding Plex since they have been enshittifying.
There’s Finamp, a music client for Jellyfin with offline playback. I’ve not used it personally yet, but with Spotify ratcheting up prices again I’m in the process of switching to self-hosting my music library. When that’s up and running it’s at the top of my list for Android clients.
Jellyfin was my go to as well. It was really nice to play with and finamp was as well. Once setup it was just as easy and nice to use as Spotify without all the ads and Spotify randomly playing songs after i finish a podcast episode.
Good to know, thanks! Do you know a way to download the Spotify playlist in Jellyfin without the need to do it manually?
I’m not sure I really get what you are looking for when you say “selfhosted”.
Yes there are self-hosted music platforms, but you bring your own music files.
Maybe you are looking for something like Spotube (available on F-Droid) that let’s you download music (I believe it uses Spotify search then downloads the music from YouTube).
Or maybe you just need to find a tool to download music from Spotify (like zotify) then put them into a self hosted music platform like Navidrome or Jellyfin?
Sorry for the late reply. I mean a service that let me stream music, that let me listen to music offline and that let me download Spotify Playlists without the need to download every single song manually.
I don’t know that the specific thing you want is available (Spotify but it has better downloading).
However, the tool I linked (zotify) does let you download playlists from Spotify (as files). Then you can put the files into a self hosted tool for the actual listening. If you’re mainly using Spotify and trying to get songs to be synced to another service for offline use then that seems like a lot of work.
If you’re willing to pay, you could just try a different service (Tidal, Qobuz, or Apple/Google offerings) and see if you like them better.
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Yes kind of but it is not strictly allowed and can be considered piracy. Their are some tools for this available on github that can save songs as mp3. Then you can play them in any audio player you like. If you want to know the name of one of those tools just send me a DM.
