2024-08-14, 04:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-08-14, 04:46 AM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
(2024-08-14, 04:15 AM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: The only music apps I am familiar with are Finamp (FOSS) and Symfonium (paid). They each handle being "offline" differently.For Symfonium, you actually get three options for how to use playlists.
Finamp's offline mode is a true offline mode. The only things that exist are the tracks you downloaded. Likes/favorite is unavailable and so is playlist management of any kind, even if you try to add tracks you downloaded to a playlist.
Symfonium maintains a local database of your media so it has more robust options for offline management. It does allow you to like/favorite offline and it will sync the changes when it is online with your Jellyfin server again. You can also import playlists from Jellyfin to Symfonium and manage while offline. I'm not sure if I'm just being impatient, but I have to push sync playlist changes to the server.
For your needs, it sounds like Symfonium meets them.
From the app:
- Offline First - "Manual Sync. Offline edits allowed."
- Online First - "Auto Sync. Requires server connection for edits."
- Read Only - "Auto Sync. Not editable locally."
So it's up to you how you want to deal with syncing playlist edits back to your server.
Offline First will force you to manually select a sync operation after edits done offline, while Online First will force you to be connected to your server to make any edits, but all edits are automatically sent to the server.
And as @TheDreadPirate states, all music you favorite will sync back to the server on the next connection to it.