I usually think of myself as halfway tech-savvy but it's hard to keep up sometimes. So here's a question for the fellow nerds here.
My S.O. and I have a large music library in high bitrate MP3 format. It sits on a home media server on the network, with a couple of backups on other drives. So far, so good... we can access music anywhere in the house, and I *think* my backup routine is okay, short of a major earthquake or fire.
So, current situation... my S.O. is on an overseas trip for a week, and in the flurry of packing she didn't put any of our current fav tunes on her iPhone. We don't do iTunes, we don't do Spotify, we're used to just accessing our home music on the house WiFi.
As a quick 'n dirty solution, I uploaded one test album to a web domain account I still maintain, as FTP access with a password protected login. I tested it on my Android phone and it works for listening to the MP3 files, but it's clumsy. I'm waiting to hear if she can access it on her iPhone while she's away. She has a roaming data plan in the country she's in.
So that started me searching for various "Cloud" solutions for hosting private uploaded music files as a listening library, and so far I'm not seeing anything I like. There is Google Play, but apparently it's ad-supported? I don't want to hear ads when listening to my private music library. Anything involving that abomination iTunes is definitely out.
Is there a smartphone app that supports, in an intelligent way (i.e with search and indexing) a privately hosted set of files online? Either FTP or HTTP with password access because I'm not interested in serving the world. There must be a way.
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