I’m just using the app. I think it’s the nicest, most functional, and best looking music app outside of PlexAmp… however I absolutely agree with you that I really really wish it was just its own app… you can make this easier on yourself by editing the quick bar at the bottom of the app. When I open the Emby app it’s one tap to get to the music and then at least I don’t have to “dig through” it to get there.

I have an AppleTV4k Hooked up to my tv and 5.1 sound system so I can Airplay to that with my iPhone. Same goes for my HomePod in the kitchen when I’m cooking. If you’re not on iOS you can also cast to any device with an Emby app but there is less flexibility there.

I am in the same boat as you in that I’d love a dedicated app, I’m just waiting for one to come along that doesn’t suck. The FinAmp project had gotten me excited since it was ostensibly Jellyfin’s take on PlexAmp but it looks god awful and the functionality isn’t there. They have a beta version that’s a complete redesign but it also sucks terribly in my opinion.

Since you mentioned podcasts, AudioBookShelf as a back end with the “ShelfPlayer” app on iOS has been phenomenal. The ShelfPlayer app even works with my Oauth connection which is so awesome. Wish Emby or Jellyfin did that lol.

Emby. It is so far, the nicest music client on iOS that I’ve been able to find.

This will work fine over the web, but won’t work with clients.

Yeah it definitely does not work in this case. Spent many hours online looking through threads of people with the same problems, but no real solution. I think it has something to do with Unraids MFS implementation. Might be a little older. Only way to get it to work is have a script run every 10 minutes to check for the drive and if it’s not mounted, mount it. Works well enough.

I’m using UnRAID for storage and getting another Linux machine to mount a share on boot has been an exercise in futility so I get it.

Not if you use a vpn. Being that this is Selfhosted, the best idea is to just host your own Recursive DNS server.

There are tons of apps that you use that are just well packaged PWAs, packaged as an app store app

So… native apps, that interface with a PWA using a web view or something.

There’s the kicker.

Half of the equation is that those making the PWA need to make it well. The other half is that the platform you install it on has to support it well. And Google and Apple have decided to support PWAs as little as possible (in some cases removing support for them altogether. See Apple removing the ability to use them entirely in the EU). And since those two companies make the two most commonly used mobile OS’… well it’s better to just go with a native app.

The #1 biggest problem with PWAs on iOS for example is the lack of push notification support, which for a lot of apps is a nonstarter. Is that the PWA makers fault? No. Does it make that PWA suck anyway? Yes.

I’m well aware of why they’re terrible, (Safari as well). However the unfortunate result is that they are terrible.

Because PWAs are terrible unfortunately.

Because this is the selfhosted community, not the FOSS community. There is some overlap, but they are different. There are many reasons to not use Plex, it not being free and open source are not among them.

It’s self hosting as long as you are in control of the data you’re hosting.

Nginx Proxy Manager is probably your best bet at this stage. It’s a simple to use GUI with QOL features like automatic certificate acquisition built on top of the industry standard Nginx. It should do everything you need it to do and it’s hands down the easiest to get started with.

When you reach the point that you’re trying to do something outside the scope of Nginx Proxy Manager’s gui, that would be a good time to get into another solution that’s config file based. My weapon of choice here is Caddy. I LOVE how simple and minimal the configuration is and it does a lot of things by default that other solutions don’t.

Plain Nginx is a solid tool but working with it directly will be the least straightforward and beginner friendly of all the solutions. Only reason I’d recommend straight Nginx is if you want experience with it for work.

Traefik, don’t bother with until you have an actual reason to use it over other solutions (Like you’re getting into clustering or kubernetes or anything else that requires dynamic configuration instead of static.)

It’s JBOD with parity, yeah.

UnRAID doesn’t use RAID. So your storage array can be expanded at any time by adding drives and those drives can be any size.

What is your goal, simplest to configure? industry standard? Secure options set by default? Do you need a gui or are you fine with config files?

but you can use CF as a reverse proxy via Cloudflared to deliver video so long as you aren’t on the CDN

I think this is a common misinterpretation, but based on the limits of free tier CDN. It explains that in order to use the CDN for serving video, you have to use their back end for the video storage, but it doesn’t say that you can stream through their nodes all you want as long as you’re not using their CDN. People have been pressing them for clarification on this but they refuse to comment on it.

Currently the only method to fully adhere to their terms of service is to use their CDN and to do so via the methods laid out here:

Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN.

You are free to gamble on them not enforcing restrictions on your account however. I only bring this up because many of us have just opted to not use Cloudflare for this.

It should be noted that you’re not permitted to stream video through Cloudflare unless you use their CDN.

It’s a web management system for the entire system, including docker containers. So less like Portainer and more like Cockpit with something like Portainer built in. Unlike Portainer the container management is also based around an application marketplace for “one click” deployments with opinionated more-secure defaults. So once installed you’re sort of hiding the regular Linux OS underneath a more beginner friendly appearance of an OS with some guard rails.

I wouldn’t really recommend UnRAID outside of it being a NAS. The App Store functionality is very active and nice but most things aren’t really one click. I love my bare metal UnRAID box but there are better options for your cloud servers.