Vouch, this app looks amazing and a desktop app will just elevate it. I’ve been looking for some good music players but all of them have slow updates, are buggy or just are very old looking.
I was using upnp/dlna before moving to symfonium. Emby has dlna support.
There are a bunch of clients, my best experience was with foobar. Theres even a plugin for internet streaming, but its kind of a pain to set it up.
I still love foobar for windows and im using it mounting my media collection on sshfs. Foobar is great because it is maybe even more customizable than symfonium, so i can get the interface just right.
For linux though (my notebook), there are a bunch of apps. My best experience was with strawberry. The interface isnt that great, but its less cluttered.
For web access there are a bunch of clients, including feishin, airsonic, and aonsoku, but to me the standard navidrome web interface is fine.
Another option is for Symfonium to provide a (minimal) web UI over local network, similar to how uTorrent does it, which can be accessed by any browser on any machine and basically control Symfonium over network.
Web UI would have a nice library view with album artists/artists/albums/tracks view and a player to stream the music from Symfonium.
There are already a few very good desktop apps when it comes to music for desktop. I’ve tested all of them i think but nothing comes even close to Symfonium.
If Symfonium were to release a desktop version, it would smash all of the other desktop apps out there. This is due to:
- Its sleek design
- Explore new music with ease
Now i actually use Symfonium on my phone when i need to create new playlists, and then push the changes to the Subsonic server. This is such a hassle though, especially since i dislike the use of my phone for these things.
Hoping there’s gonna be a desktop app for this soon!
Yes please!!!
I started to love symfonium. Most of the value comes from the powerfull way to organize music.
Especially the browsing by folder.
And especially the radio mix.
And especially the stream to UPNP (which works with upmpdcli and mpd for my local dac)
I am using the ampache as a server which is a subsonic combatible api server.
When i am at work or home in front of a computer i would prefer to have this app as a desktop app. I am using linux.
It would be verrrry solving to finally have a single app for pc and phone.
For anyone still looking for a solution:
If you install the Android Subsystem on your Windows 10 or 11, you can then install the Google Play Store and use it to install Symfonium.
Checkout MustardChef/WSABuilds on github.
Thanks that work and all, but it seems that the desktop app downloaded from WSA with google play doesn’t seem to detect the license I bought. I downloaded it using the same account I use to bought the app for my phone.
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To add: unless Symfonium is going to allow direct tag editing, which Tolriq has stated he’s not really interested in integrating that, I would think most people are using their preferred media player that does allow for tag editing instead.
i just want to post it there, there is a goal on kofi for experimenting with kotlin multiplatform (see here https://ko-fi.com/tolriq/goal?g=58, idk how much is the goal tho)
if you want to have multiplatform (meaning also desktop) consider donating
@Tolriq assuming everything goes well, will Linux be a target at some point?
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I would 100% pay 10€ for a Linux native Symfonium client.
I would also pay for a native Linux client. Hopefully this becomes reality with enough funding/support
I love Symfonium. I bought multiple copies for my families Google accounts since we all want to access my navidrome server and listen to music with a beautiful interface
I would buy it again easily for a desktop version. Specifically a Linux client. I have managed to get it to work using Waydroid, and it works perfectly if you have GAPPS and you certify your waydroid instance. Its just always in landscape mode basically but that makes sense and looks great and works great. Except that certifying waydroid is often an issue which means Play services won’t work and Symfonium fully relies on Play services to verify paid users. It’s been a headache for me.
I want Symfonium for Linux. Or Symfonium open source and on GitHub, that’s a perfect world scenario. Alternatively I want Symfonium to verify paid users without relying on Google services so its much easier to get up and running using Waydroid.
I do know that you can cast music and all that, I know of other navidrome clients…. I LOVE SYMFONIUM THO. I WANT THAT LOL. Please don’t think I’m demanding anything here I’m just passionate and sharing my thoughts.
There’s a solution for degoogled devices in the FAQ. Just no migration between them.
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That’s great! I’ll have to do that, only other thing holding me back from getting it working on my wife’s PC is the APK itself. Symfonium downloads just points to Play so as far as I know you can’t be fully degoogled since there’s no place to get the APK (untrusted places maybe).
Maybe I’m missing something
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Aurora store for example.
Any of you guys ever tried to run Symfonium on Linux with android_translation_layer?
It’s basically Wine, but for Android. Would be less of an overkill than having to use waydroid.
just tried on NixOS “Asahi” (arm64 with 16k page size) and cannot get it to start unfortunately
This is the one and only feature that is keeping me from leaving Plexamp completely.
Came here to add support for this. I know it would be a big job. I listen to music when gaming and there’s just nothing that works as good as Symfonium on PC.
For Windows users, Phone Link works well for me. It has its minor irritations, but it works better than the native Plexamp Desktop app. For example, you can actually cast from the desktop, which you can’t do on the native Plexamp app