I have tried looots of Music apps, Both Android and Linux.
I currently go with Anrimians Music Player on Android.
On Linux I simply use VLC Flatpak, and currently for the 4.0 “beta” I use Distrobox with an Ubuntu 22.04 Container and their PPA. The latest VLC Flatpak should have the FLAC stuttering issue fixed though.
So my problem is this:
- as I find Playlists weird on Linux, I always focusser on folder-baser Musicplayers
- but duplicating songs is not possible there, so I restrict the possibilities a lot
- I would like to sync most music between phone and Laptop using Syncthing, and also the Playlists.
Now I wonder how this would work. For simplicity my sync structure currently is:
#Android
/storage/emulated/0/--SYNC--
#goes to
/home/user/Handy-Backup/--SYNC--
#Android
/storage/emulated/0/Music
#goes to
/home/user/Handy-Backup/Music
I hate how Android handles permissions for the Music folder, how all apps use it etc, because its more of a pain to sync. But all the Playlist .m3u files land here.
What would be a way to sync the Playlists AND the music folder and have it work? How do m3u files work, do they use variable Directories like “in this folder, subfolder ALBUM1”?
Thinking about that I guess it would be best to put all music into Android Music folder, right? As the M3U files are probably referring to files in the same dir then and everything works.
Umm… I don't. I use CMUS which uses its own playlist structure, and on top of all that, I make changes to my music collection on my phone that I am yet to sync over to my Linux machine and then to a USB which acts as a backup solution. I know that in the sysadmin realm they say "2 is 1, 1 is none", but that usually goes for untested backups, or backups that can be lost in various ways. Personally, if I have my music collection (or at least most of it on 3 different devices most of the time and on at least 2 devices at 100% of the time (when I'm tinkering with my phone or distrohopping), I'd say I'm pretty safe.