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My combo is Jellyfin+Symfonium

With Symfonium you can manually download playlists and favorites for offline, and/or have a "rolling cache" where the most frequent listens are automatically kept synced for offline listening.

My collection is far too large to keep on my phone in its entirety, but with Symfonium I don't need to, and if I'm ever caught without internet, I've still plenty to listen to.

Jellyfin does not organize the music, it's a way to browse and access it. For a nice client for desktop, look at Feishin.

To actually organize the music, you want something like Picard.

I think a couple of the Android MP3 player apps offer library syncing with PC music library managers. I think that Gone Mad Music Player will sync with MusicBee over Wi-Fi.

Personally, I wound up just loading files directly to a DAP because it's just easier with the amount of music I'm loading at any given time.

What I do is download an album, pass it through music brainz picard to fix the tags, drop the files to my DAP, and then backup the files to my NAC. Pretty simple really.

However I want the option to expand it as I find new music here and there.

With Jellyfin or other self hosted media player you'll be able to add files as you like. I usually buy music in FLAC format from Bandcamp and Qobuz to add to my own library. That's in addition to other music I ripped from CDs over the years.

but are there good options to “sync” the library to my phone other than just simply drag and drop the media?

Some Jellyfin apps have an offline mode (Finamp is one of them) so you can stream music online from your Jellyfin server or mark albums/songs to download within the app and then be able to play that music offline. I use it since I don't have unlimited mobile data but still want to have some music on my phone for offline play. Not sure if that's the best way but so far it works for my usage.

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Have you considered a DAP (Digital Audio Player)? It's an MP3 player. The beginner ones people like are typically the Innioasis Y1 and the Fiio Snowsky Echo. There's a million options. I have the Y1. I like it so much that I'll probably invest in a high quality.

Connect with USB and drag and drop.

Well, for starters you could start buying CDs again and then do your own FLAC rips from those.

Jellyfin, then use Syncthing to sync it to any other device you want, whether that's your phone, or another PC/laptop.

I have that exact system myself, and it works quite well. However, the main downside is that unless you're using a client that can support it somehow, your playlists won't sync, only the music files themselves, so if you make a playlist on your phone's music player, it wouldn't sync to your PC's Jellyfin instance, and vice versa.

Syncthing might work for your usecase.

If you are already doing Jellyfin, you can sync as much or little to your phone as you want. Just use finamp. It's a very nice player for Android that connects to your Jellyfin and allows you to download any synced music on the go or stream it directly.

Im using syncthing to sync my music with my phone. It's really easy to setup and reliable. As a mediaplay on your PC I can really recommend Fooyin cause it's fast, highly customizable, and has good searching functionality. On my Phone I'm running Symphony. Everything is FOSS of course :)

Drag and drop's gonna be your best bet. Use whatever phone ap to build playlists the like and sort it that way.

You can selfhost a navidrome server and stream the files from there. I dont know how tech savy you are but that is what I do.

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