I don’t know what to tell you then. 🤷‍♂️

So did Samsung

And I said offline syncing a playlist (1-2Gb), not 400Gb. Max 1-2Gb. I have 1.8Tb of music that I can stream in the rural midwest at any given moment providing I have a signal, and about 3Gb synced to my phone when I don’t have a signal. Plex is smart enough to buffer the next few song in your playback queue so it will play seamlessly through bad cellular coverage. Spotify and Tidal work the same way. Is selecting a subset of Spotify’s catalog annoying?

What problem? 200 tracks times 4mb/track equals 1Gb. If you can’t spare a couple gigs of storage, you need to delete some apps off your phone.

I live in the rural midwest with spotty cell service. All of those services support manual offline syncing to store music on your phone. I set Plexamp to stream lossy over cellular, and it doesn’t take long to cache an entire playlist when I do have a signal.

1.8Tb stored on an 8Tb NAS drive. Plenty of room for more music hoarding.

In my case, a self hosted streaming server works wonders. Plex with Pleaxamp, Jellyfin, Navidrome, Airsonic, any of them will stream to your phone while out and about.

Um, .wav is a lossless format. It’s just raw PCM with no compression. An upscaled FLAC from a lossy source is not lossless, even though it’s stored in a lossless compatible format (FLAC). A properly encoded and compressed MP3 file will sound very close to the lossless source, but when procuring those lossy files from third parties, you rely on whoever compressed them doing it properly. I prefer to store my music repository in a lossless format, and stream/sync in lossy.

I mainly get my purchased music from Qobuz and Bandcamp. If it’s older, don’t dismiss compact discs, used or new. A lot of times you can get the CD cheaper than the digital download, then just rip it to any format you want.

I forgot about TIDAL integration, since I’m not a subscriber. I only subscribe to Spotify for the family account. My three teenagers and my wife would all mutiny if I stopped paying for Spotify. I just now convinced them that Plex is stable enough to use for video. Small victories.

Plex server streaming to Plexamp here. Currently handling around 50k tracks all stored on my NAS no problem. Soundiiz supports Plex, so converting Spotify playlists over to Plex is pretty straight forward, provided you have the songs.

• Plex pulls down it’s own metadata, so if you’re a tagging freak like me, you’ll have to check the “Prefer local metadata” on your Plex server.
• Smart playlists are a little cumbersome. They’re actually saved filtered searches. Not intuitive at all.
• No HiRes - if that’s your thing. (on iOS, not sure about Android)
• Plexamp has a separate EQ for each bluetooth device on iOS, but it can’t differentiate between wired headphones using an adapter.
• It does save music or playlists to the device for offline playback, but they’re captured within Plexamp. You can’t play those offline tracks in any other app (might be possible in Andorid, but the filenames will be random and idk about metadata). I have not run into an offline download limit, like in the old days.