Hi,

I’ve built my own NAS recently and I’m trying to get the max use out of it. I seem to be unable to find any iOS music app that integrates with CarPlay except VLC.

VLC works “okay” for streaming files that are on my phones local storage but it’s quite glitchy and sometimes tends to crash or becomes unresponsive. However the network shares are not accessible to navigate trough on the CarPlay dashboard and either I’m missing something but I can’t add any network shared folders to the Albums which are accessible on the dashboard.

BONUS: If the app allows transcoding so I don’t have to stream FLAC over mobile data, that would be a big time saver.

  • riptide@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I keep my music off my Jellyfin instance and use Navidrome as the server and run Amerfy on my iPhone which has CarPlay

  • echo@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 days ago

    I use Jellyfin along with the iOS client Manet. It’s not the best UI for CarPlay, but it gets the job done.

    • WereCat@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      THANKS!

      Manet seems to work really nicely and actually also has kinda good and simple UI. I’m settling for this for now. Jellify/Jellyfin has some major issues when I try to send to CarPlay and it stutters heavily and sometimes randomply stops playback after 2s so that’s kinda weird.

      edit:

      Damn, it even has Siri integration, you win extra points today!

  • EmoPolarbear@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Plexamp will do what you’re looking for. You’ll need to run the server component either on your as NAS or a VM with access to the music files

    • WereCat@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      3 days ago

      Haven’t got to try it yet as Manet seems to work and I don’t have to run extra server component so I’ll use that one for now but this is a nice backup if needed, thanks!

  • antsu@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    3 days ago

    Navidrome on your server with Nautiline (paid app) on your phone. It has a couple days of free trial to see if it works for you.

  • retype@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    I believe symfonium might need your needs. It’s a paid app, but only one time payment. It can utilize several methods to stream.

    • WereCat@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      Well, Emby looked fine until I’ve set everything up and went to try it and it won’t even let me unless I pay. I’ll leave this one as a backup for later but thanks.