In my experience, all it takes is one instance where a stream buffers or needs to transcode down to a lower quality. There are a lot of variables between your home server and someone else’s smart tv or set top box. Streaming services are really good at accounting for most of that and making it work reliably. I am sure most of our media servers are way less reliable, especially outside the home.

If you’re on iOS, the app BookPlayer works well. When you choose to add files, you can choose from a media server, including both Jellyfin and AudiobookShelf.

I’ve always liked Plex/Plexamp but have been using Jellyfin more lately and found Finamp to be pretty solid. I just wish it worked with Apple CarPlay.

That sounds like every piece of tech in existence. Every laptop manufacturer does the same. The difference with Framework is that you can upgrade parts of your existing model with some of the new hardware if you want. You don’t have to have the latest and greatest but if you like a certain aspect of it, you can upgrade that.

Makes sense with Ubuntu heading in a direction they don’t like.