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subsonic support

Posted Apr 28, 2026 17:43 UTC (Tue) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867)
Parent article: Strawberry is ripe for managing music collections

One thing not mentioned here is Strawberry's subsonic support. If you're hosting your music locally on a NAS or something, and using Navidrome or LMS to stream it over the network, Strawberry supports that. You get the best of both worlds; no need to keep a music collection on every device, and while you're traveling (assuming the Navidrome server has a public IP or you're using Yggdrasil or Headscale to access your home network) you can still stream stuff to Strawberry from your music collection. It's also great to have a playlist that includes radio stations right next to your locally streamed music.

The only thing missing (aside from a non-dated UI 😏) is better caching of music. Various subsonic-supporting android apps allow you to either manually download or automatically keep frequently listened-to tracks in a local directory. So when you're on wifi, you can stream, but if you're on a limited data plan or in a place where wifi/cell isn't available, you can listen to a few of your favorite cached albums.


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subsonic support

Posted Apr 29, 2026 8:32 UTC (Wed) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

That's my setup (music on a NAS, subsonic-compatible software to access it -- substreamer). I installed strawberry a while back to try it out and the subsonic support is solid, in the sense that it works (whereas the two iOS apps I've got for it frequently crash). However the UX is very basic, so I find myself preferring navidrome's web interface.

subsonic support

Posted Apr 29, 2026 11:55 UTC (Wed) by ptime (subscriber, #168171) [Link]

I love being able to mix both my Spotify and LMS libraries in the queue

mpd

Posted Apr 30, 2026 5:29 UTC (Thu) by dagobayard (subscriber, #174025) [Link]

I remain partial to mpd -- not so much for the client / server model, which is as backwards as X11 ;-) -- but for configuration through a text file, and for beautifully transparent indexing, which I too often missed in GUI players. I am not calling anyone a fool for liking a pure GUI player, but it won't ever be my cup of tea.


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