Interesting article, especially the Fiio, I did not know that. So here is my 2 cents: I self-host navidrome[1] for music and audiobookshelf[2] for audio books

Interesting article, especially the Fiio, I did not know that. So here is my 2 cents: I self-host navidrome[1] for music and audiobookshelf[2] for audio books and podcasts as well as syncthing[3] for documents (e.g. ebooks). For streaming music the navidrome browser web client is already pretty good, but for my portable devices I use Substreamer[4] (free but non open source) and DSub[5] (FOSS). These Apps can switch playlists into Offline Mode and sync automatically. This is especially useful with the smart playlist feature[6] of navidrome. To add music, I rip bargain Audio CDs with EAC[7] to FLAC and then use beets[8] with a cronjob that runs every 30mins to automate the process of importing the files and converting them to MP3 V0[9] to make it compatible with all of my devices (e.g. Car USB Stick). Then I archive the FLACs to keep space requirements low. For audio books I use the Audiobookshelf App to download the files and then use Voice[10] as a companion app to listen. This is because the Audiobookshelf app is not a native app and Voice just integrates better. I'm currently in the process of adding some of my missing features like Support for Media-Button Tap-Codes[12] and better file scanning[13]. For iOS I'd probably use Prologue[11]. For Syncthing there is a Fork on FDroid that is still maintained and for iOS there also is something... For standalone music players you could try the following: - Hifi Walker G7 mini (cheap) - Hiby M300 - Shanling M0 - Fiio M11 Plus - Sony NW-A306 Hope this helps anyone who is trying to own their music :-) 1: https://www.navidrome.org/ https://www.navidrome.org/ 2: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ 3: https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/ 4: https://substreamerapp.com/ https://substreamerapp.com/ 5: https://f-droid.org/packages/github.daneren2005.dsub/ https://f-droid.org/packages/github.daneren2005.dsub/ 6: https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/smartplaylists/ https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/smartplaylists/ 7: https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/ https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/ 8: https://beets.io/ https://beets.io/ 9: https://boomspeaker.com/mp3-v0-vs-mp3-320/ https://boomspeaker.com/mp3-v0-vs-mp3-320/ 10: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice 11: https://prologue.audio/ https://prologue.audio/ 12: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice/pull/2960 https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice/pull/2960 13: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice/issues/3044 https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice/issues/3044