Yeah audiophile grade mobile players are fucking huge. So unless they made a breakthrough in audio hardware design, that’s just not true.

I used tuta for a long time ans never had any issues. I recently switched only because I wanted to be able to send emails from my self hosted services ans they don’t support anything but they’re own clients. If that’s not a problem for you the tuta is a great option.

Wait, this is genius. When paperless has processed it and moves the original, it’s also removed from your phone, right?

Musicbrainz for the basic stuff then quodlibet music player for the ratings and custom tags. If it’s important, no idea if it has a windows or mac version, we only use linux.

My wife does the tagging so I don’t know the details. But it’s ID3 tags and she sets a custom “mood” tag. So it might look something like this “genre: classical, instrumental” but another tag “mood: chill; quiet”. Many players don’t recognize this but it originally came from her using musicbee on windows. We do set multiple values in genre but she likes having the separate mood one as well. And we use rating which is another some player ignore. All of these she uses to build smart playlists.

Not exactly referring to that but kinda. We like to add custom tags that we decide for each track and then build playlists from those tags. So a playlist might have a genre tag but also, for example, the tag “relaxing” so a playlist is made up of all songs with those tags (playlist of all songs tagged both with “classical” and “relaxing”).

Does this support custom tags and smart playlists built from the tags? I’ve been looking for a self hosted service that does that for so long.

I’m actually using this one which seems to be more actively maintained than the one you linked.

Working on automating tasks so I don’t have to block out hours of time a week managing everything. Just got watchtower running and going to see how it does before trying out some other automations.