| ▲ | sandreas 2 hours ago | |
Interesting Story. Starting my own hardware music player as a learning project[1] (that will probably take years until the first release) I noticed how MANY music player projects are out there (software and hardware ones). This seems to be a field with so many different approaches and requirements, that no solution can fit them all and everyone settles with the least annoying one or starts their own. Personally, I've found that since breaking up with macOS/iOS in 2020 my most missing feature is using my headphone remote to control volume or skip songs without taking my phone out of my pocket / touching my keyboard. It's still in my muscle memory, because I'm using my iPod Nano 7 to listen to audio books a lot and while every iPod and MacBook does support this, Linux capable notebooks don't. Besides this single feature, for music I found navidrome with smart playlists[2] and Substreamer[3] / DSub[4] to be a great way to listen to local music, since Substreamer supports OFFLINE sync for playlists. So every time I get home I sync my smart playlists, which includes a "last played" filter / ordering - so I get to listen to "new" music every time. Unfortunately the headphone remote stuff probably will never be fully fixed on Android, because google chose to block "longpress" on OS level for their own Voiceover, but like I said: The least annoying option. For audio books I can recommend Audiobookshelf[5], which is self hosted and can be combined with the official Android app or some third party ones (Lissen, Storii and Voice from Paul Woitaschek). I'm probably sticking to my iPod until it dies completely - but lately I found the HiBy R1 to be Linux based and hackable[6], maybe I try to implement my own player / UI for it :-) 1: https://github.com/nanowave-player/nanowave-ui 2: https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/features/smart-playlist... 4: https://f-droid.org/de/packages/github.daneren2005.dsub/ | ||