Selfhosted

I use Navidrome with play:Sub (paid) or Amperfy (free as in beer) on iOS. I also use the Volusonic plugin with Volumio to play music throughout the house. All my music is curated using MusicBrainz Picard and the files are mounted read-only for Navidrome.

I looked at Roon briefly, and I know many people like it, but I can’t justify the cost. Plex and I don’t get along; pretty sure it’s operator error and/or grumpiness. Jellyfin looks promising, but I ran into challenges with it as well. I think if you’re just hosting music, then Navidrome is fine. If you think you might expand to series or films, something like Plex or Jellyfin could be better long term.

Navidrome for the server, and its WebUI for the desktop, and Synfonium for Android (https://symfonium.app/) Not using iOS so can't suggest anything there.

Free I recommend jellyfin and use finamp, but I don't know it will have all the features you need (yet).

If you're willing to shell out some money then Plex does all of what you need, and it's hard for me to think of anything that comes with PlexAmp, which requires PlexPass (subscription or one time lifetime purchase). The organization of the music is really nice too, however I run everything through Picard musicbrainz first anyway

I paid for and don’t regret Plex pass so I could access PlexAmp. It’s quite nice. Will it be worth the price for others? I’m not sure.

I would recommend something compatible with the subsonic API, because some clients are great, and there's always one decent for every major platform. That leaves us with:

• https://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced

• https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

depending on how much configurability you need and how many resources you are willing to throw at it. Navidrome is still quite crashy, though, while airsonic ticks like a clock.

Another vote for Navidrome.

I’ve tried a few deficient servers but always came back to Plex. Plexamp just organise things really well and is slick on all platforms.

Roon is expensive, but if you are a serious music fan, it’s 100% worth it.

I describe it to others as like talking to a super knowledgeable music store employee. It knows so much about each track, each musician, each band… cross-referencing them all, so you can go down a rabbit hole of hyperlinks learning about the music. It seamlessly mixes playlists across streaming and locally stored music. It does a decent job of streaming around the house to Apple, android, and audiophile devices. They just added an app that enables remote listening to your locally stored music.

I tried jellyfin but it was too slow to index my library. So I switched to navidrome. It works and it indexes music very fast. Searching for songs is for some reason slow. It only works with tags so browsing by folders is not possible. My workaround is a script that auto creates playlists in folders with songs from different artists/albums. Ios app play:sub is nice.

I am happy with it so far.

I use both plex and navidrome server side love them both

I can recommend Navidrome. Organizing of library with Lidarr and (Beets)[https://beets.io]
I’m using Beets for tagging because of the Discogs plugin.
Lidarr for visual overview of the library.

Daphile 23.01. This network media player and CD Ripper available such as a ZeroTier Integration which will allow you to access your music outside your home network.

Call me crazy, but I'm using jellyfin + beet for backend. Native Jellyfin client on PC and Sympfonium on mobile. Works for me. But my library is small less than 50k tracks.

And another vote for Navidrome. I use it vith DSub frontend (the only one I've found that supports DLNA, for playing back on any DLNA renderer device) and Tailscale for remote access.