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Please let me sync my entire music library locally to my phone Plex!
Can’t you already do that with Plexamp?
Nope. It would be perfect if you could, but you have to select individual playlists which doesn't work if you want auto updating smart playlists based on your entire library. I think there's also some overall max amount of songs you can have.
And they limit the max amount of songs you can offline in a playlist.
I've got a playlist of ~2500 songs that I use for long term no-internet situations that I leave in shuffle. Plexamp will only offline 1/4 of the playlist, and not letting me properly shuffle it.
Developer response to this? "why would you ever want to offline that much music when you can stream it data is cheap" actual dumbasses.
Yeah I guess they have never heard of airplanes or camping. It's a pity because otherwise it's one of few choices that has everything else I need.
I've been on Symfonium for ages, and it is the best experience with a music app I've ever had.
I've not tried it with plex, as I use navidrome. But I assume the experience with a plex server is just as good.
Supoort is great, the dev is super active on his own forum etc.
The app is paid though, but it's a one time purchase. (it has a free trial!)
Does it have local syncing to an iOS app?
Oh ok fair enough, I don’t use playlists and didn’t know there was a max, haven't run into it yet
You don't need Plex for that. A simple local music player will do just fine if you always want your whole library stored locally.
I want it locally on my phone and my computer and both synced with smart playlists.
You could use Syncthing (and syncthing-fork on android), but I don't know how playlists are stored, but you can potentially sync that too.
Is the Plex music library in a standard file system format that can be accessed locally on iOS?
No, apple forces you into their services and the cloud. Self-hosting is practically not an option with iOS, or at least a much worse experience.
No. I'm not aware of a good way to sync music to the built-in iOS player; you have to go through iTunes.