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Just wondering how you manage Spotify + your own music collection. Is there an app that can play both Spotify and imported files and present them in a single UI?

At the moment I can’t enjoy anything that’s not on Spotify simply because I wouldn’t be able to listen to them really. I have hours of music on Spotify playlists and I would only need maybe a dozen of songs that aren’t on there, so manually switching apps for those few times would be annoying.

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I think clementine (based on/inspired by Amarok 1.4) supports spotify - at least they say so on their website. However, I (used to) use it only for my local music and switching to spotify for, well, spotify.

https://www.clementine-player.org/ Hm, but the last version is from 2016.

Spotify allows you to import tracks from your computer and add them to playlists as if it was on Spotify. Obviously you can only access them on the computer you added them from though.

Not sure about the mobile app, I assume it will skip the missing tracks in a playlist as normal but it might be possible that it picks them up if they're present on the device somewhere.

You can share them to an Android or iOS device [1], but it's a little fiddly. I'd love for them to offer a cloud music system like Apple Music or Google Play does, as Spotify checks all the other boxes that those services don't.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen...

Mopidy can do this, that's what I use: https://www.mopidy.com/

...but it's a background service with a web UI, so how easy you'll find it to set up depends on your technical expertise.

The Sonos app does that for you. Likely their implementation of Spotify is not as slick as the native Spotify app, but you can for instance search for songs and see results from Spotify mixed with results from your local collection.

>Is there an app that can play both Spotify and imported files and present them in a single UI?

Spotify can play and sync your own files. You add them in a list of folders it checks.

Do you have an issue with playing local files in Spotify itself? I do this for the ~30 or so songs I have on my computer (in Dropbox, actually) and it works just fine.

I just use separate apps. I generally use spotify but occasionally I'll just play my local songs via vlc or itunes.

Spotify windows client can play local music just fine. At least could last time I've used it.

Why not use two apps?

Shuffle play

You can import music in to spotify.

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