All of the music players I’ve tried let you import or export .m3u playlists, but none of them automatically scan a folder for playlists nor update the .m3u realtime. I’m trying to sync playlists between my laptop and phone.
The workaround I use is to connect my phone to my computer via bluetooth, and then linux/kde acts as a speaker/headphones.
So then, phone audio goes through my computer instead. I just play all audio or podcasts on my phone, and that’s how I sync up my playlists, and where I’m at in them.
Navidrome will do that.
This. Specifically, if you want to do things like sync playlists and listen stats between different devices (e.g. Android, iOS, Windows, macOS), you want a dumb client that connects to a server that handles all that. I do it on Plex but Navidrome looks awesome.
Seems this is the best option. Getting it set up now. Thanks!
Install Feishin on the desktop and you can even create smart playlists.
On Android, Vanilla Music has it. Although the app is unfortunately semi-broken on newer Android versions and not being updated anymore, because Google came up with an even more fucked up API for accessing files in the filesystem.
Deleting songs doesn’t work anymore. Not sure, what else is broken…
https://f-droid.org/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla
I just need to play music for free.
Sigh
So annoying…
