I was using Google Play Music only for my own music and moved recently to Google Drive which just syncs my audio folder on every device. I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudbeats on my android phone and Rhythmbox (since I just sync plain mp3-files) on my notebook.
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#12Apple Music lets you upload any personal music and stream/re download it alongside normal offerings.
Works perfectly through music.apple.com and an oddly good native Android app.
Un ideally it requires a subscription, though there’s a generous three month free trial. I also don’t think there’s a self hosting option.
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#13Recently switched to Jellyfin+Gelli Android app. Great experience so far, also the web interface is nice to use on both mobile and desktop.
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#15https://github.com/sentriz/gonic is a very lightweight implementation of Subsonic (so you can use any Subsonic client with it, ie. there are native and browser apps). I use it with DSub on Android. There's still https://bandcamp.com/ for buying music, but there are many artists I can no longer buy mp3's from now that Google Play Music is gone :-/
> but there are many artists I can no longer buy
this is the most frustrating part of the whole ordeal, many indie artists had their digital albums on GPM and youtube music is not a replacement because you can't buy albums on it.
on the other hand bandcamp is awesome, I wish more artists would use it.
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#16AFAIK Itunes Match is still around if you do not want a regular streaming service. But Apple Music also includes the same functionality. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146 You can upload your own stuff but it is subscription based, of course. Playing should work through the Apple Music app for Android.
I use iTunes match with a circa 200GB collection (and then Apple music stuff on top). Can't remember the details of the extra subscription for match, but after the first upload pass it works really well.
Everything is automatically synced between all devices. Also helps algo find additional recommendations in regular Apple music.
I also use Apple Music on Android. Caching is woeful sometimes, but it does the job for now.
For Linux, can use https://music.apple.com
Seems to be getting better (has been quite buggy up to now).
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I've been umm-ing and ahh-ing about going self hosted for a while, but I can't find anything that gives me control over my library and a massive repertoire of good tunes.
The latter is probably the biggest selling point for me sticking with apple for now.
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#17I've switched from GPM to Tidal+Roon. So far so good.
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#18Anything that uses the mpd protocol, including mpd itself, can do all of those things except sell you new music.
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#19I wrote one for myself: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ashishb.an... it plays both local files as well files from Google Drive (without requiring access to full Google Drive)