Forgot to also mention:

• full equaliser compatible with thousands of preset profiles for whatever headphones you have
• android auto
• programmable default actions (like touching a song either plays it or queues it)
• multiple queues - each time you manually start a track / playlist a new queue is created and you can swap back and forth between queues as you wish.
• ACTIVE DEVELOPER!! - Tolriq the dev is always updating it and very active in the community, they just want to make the best music player possible

Like the other guy said, Symfonium is the one and only true answer.

Quick rundown of features:

• playlist sorting
• smart playlists (auto generated by filters)
• fully customisable now playing screens
• fully customisable home menus
• casting via UPnP (think sonos, any other wifi enabled speaker ecosystem)
• stats tracking
• scrobbling to your tracking service (listenbrainz, lastFM)
• transcoding support (depending on server - jellyfin cant but navidrome transcodes perfectly)
• smart queue
• personalised mixes
• radio mixes
• downloadable media for offline play
• track / album rating system
• favourites

Symfonium does things that no other media player I know of can do, for example:

I try to rate my music as i listen to it and while I do that, every song i rate 5 stars goes to an automatically generated playlist of 5 star music only. From there it auto downloads to offline cache in OGG OPUS 320 format to keep quality and reduce space used (My library is all FLAC).

From there I have created a playlist that incorporates the 5 star playlist with some other parameters to create an even larger playlist which, you guessed it, is all automatically done for me.

Now I could have a bunch of these playlists combined in different ways (rating defined, mood defined, genre defined, BPM defined) and I can choose to either shuffle them when pressing play, start a personal mix which uses your stats to alter the queue of the playlist or I could order the whole thing by increasing BPM or year.

It is an incredibly powerful tool to listen to your music and I will never be able to go back to spotify playlists or any sort of algo picking what I listen to.

No problem!

We did the same thing, wrote out a small, basic set of guidelines outlining why we didnt want anything on social media or big tech clouds among a few other things.

Most family downloaded signal straight away which was a bonus to be able to possibly fuck off messenger in the future.

As long as you make it as easy as possible (within reason, dont bend over backwards if someone doesnt want to comply for no good reason) for others within your boundaries then it will end up being mostly painless.

Also congratz on becoming soon to be new parents! Sleep as much as possible now! Haha… Aha… Ha…

Something you need to consider even before all this, is what other people will do with the photos once they have them.

I’ve been through a similar situation recently and had to lay out ground rules for what people were allowed to do with the photos and where they could be saved. I made the condition that if they wanted to see photos I would only send them through signal. Past that point you just need to trust that grandma who downloads the image to her iphone doesnt have iCloud enabled by default and boom your childs image is now in the hands of apple. (Or any other auto backup cloud host)

Be prepared for some outright childish behaviour from people you thought were adults when you tell them they cant take their own photos unless they show you they dont have auto sync to iCloud enabled…

The only way to truly keep your kids image out of the cloud is to never let anyone else have possession of it to begin with unfortunately.

Although this is very similar it isnt it.

The one I used even had some of these wallpapers but a really easy UI and you could add your own wallpapers all through gui without terminal.

Starting to think i dreamed it but my wife insists I didnt shut up about it when I had it the first time.