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- **[Astiga:](https://asti.ga)** nicely designed, supports the [Subsonic music API](http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp) and lets you source music from cloud storage. **Awesome.** Not awesome: I don't particularly like any of the available iOS apps and scrobbling from iOS to Last.fm is inconsistent. Not perfect — absolutely worth keeping an eye on as it develops.
- **[Roon:](https://roonlabs.com)** a very promising service, but one geared more towards the audiophile audience and with hardware requirements I'm not interested in investing in at this point.
Pretty limited, right? My solution and the one I'm really enjoying is [Plexamp](https://plexamp.com/). I knew Plex supported music playback — I didn't realize they had an excellent, bespoke app to support it.[^5] Plex scrobbles to Last.fm from the server, auto-populates artist metadata, does a stellar job matching similar artists and building playlists from *your own collection*. That's it, that's what I wanted. I don't want the collection to drift, I'll add to it when I find music that I want to listen to more than once and *sometimes*, I want to throw on a station or playlist constrained to that set of artists.
Pretty limited, right? My solution and the one I'm really enjoying is [Plexamp](https://plexamp.com/). I knew Plex supported music playback — I didn't realize they had an excellent, bespoke app to support it.[^5] Plex scrobbles to Last.fm from the server, autopopulates artist metadata, does a stellar job matching similar artists and building playlists from *your own collection*. That's it, that's what I wanted. I don't want the collection to drift, I'll add to it when I find music that I want to listen to more than once and *sometimes*, I want to throw on a station or playlist constrained to that set of artists.
So here we are: I have a cloud-based Plex instance, it's used solely for music playback, the artist images match up with Last.fm and [my now page](/now). The metadata is defined the way I've elected to define it and it's available via an [rclone](https://rclone.org) mount to Google Drive. This is all more complicated than listening to music should be, but I can hit play and listen to what I want to (and get decent recommendations too). Apparently that's too much to ask for from most services, or maybe I'm just out of touch.[^6]
So here we are: I have a cloud-based Plex instance, it's used solely for music playback, the artist images match up with Last.fm and [my now page](/now). The metadata is defined the way I've elected to define it, and it's available via a [rclone](https://rclone.org) mount to Google Drive. This is all more complicated than listening to music should be, but I can hit play and listen to what I want to (and get decent recommendations too). Apparently that's too much to ask for from most services, or maybe I'm just out of touch.[^6]
[^1]: When I last leveraged Apple Music's catalogue I kept a smart playlist that highlighted releases that fell out of their streaming catalogue.
[^2]: One of those apps that does exactly what it sets out to in a robust and reliable manner — plus it's native to macOS. Go buy it.