What kind of issues are you experiencing with Jellyfin? It has worked perfectly for me, but I see the sentiment repeated many times so I guess it’s not that uncommon to experience issues. I run it via Docker, mount volumes like I do with other media types, and add properly tagged music in an Artist/Album directory hierarchy. No special tweaking.
I’m not the person you were replying to, but the only issue I ever had using Jellyfin for music was that it seemed.a little finicky about matching artist/album when pulling down metadata, and I had to do more manual intervention.
The actual streaming functionality seemed perfectly fine, but I personally settled on Navidrome for music.
Do you run the files through something like MusicBrainz Picard first? I want to uniformly tag all my music anyway, so I would do that regardless of which media server I used, but it could be doing a poor job if it does not have a MusicBrainz ID associated with it?
No, I wasn’t doing any pre-processing other than “properly” formatting the track name and folder structure. So I can’t really blame Jellyfin, because I know that tagging is part of the best process workflow. But I’ve just found Navidrome seems to be a little more hands off.
Hey guys, I said “MUSIC STREAMING”. I use Jellyfin for video streaming and I think it’s the best right now. I just don’t like its GUI for music. That said, Jellyfin is a great app but it has some flaws. In my opinion, music handling is the worst part of Jellyfin.
It’s true, you’ve changed my opinion! All those people upvoting the other post and not yours must be misclicking! It’s a shame the brightest of us will never burn at dinner time…
Does it have a phone app that also lets you search for and add new music on the go? I’m trying to get my wife off Spot but she refuses without this ability.
Unfortunately, no. You can’t add music through any apps or the web UI. To add music, you have to add files into a folder. And due to security reasons, Navidrome accesses that folder as read-only and therefore can’t write anything to it.
It’s wild to me that Soulseek persists despite being entirely mediated by a single central server. I would have thought it would have gotten the takedown long ago.
Also the fact that it doesn’t swarm, only does one to one peer sharing is kind of odd to me, but I guess it actually makes some sense in that it constrains the network to being more optimal for smaller files like music and so keeps video off of the platform for the most part.
Worth noting that the Soulseek Wikipedia page lists a bunch of clients you can use, including Seeker for Android and others for all platforms including Linux
Yeah, there are a fair number of nice clients, slskd is just designed to fit into an existing automation flow, and can be accessed through a web browser (though of course you should always practice proper security and avoid exposing it to the web directly).
Spotty what? Can’t hear you guys over the music I am blasting on my Navidrome server
Bookmarked for future purposes. Thanks for the heads up!
mpd and wireguard do the trick for me, but I’m a simple man with a nice uplink.
I’m going to try this. For what ever reason I can’t use music files for Jellyfin and I basically gave up on it.
What kind of issues are you experiencing with Jellyfin? It has worked perfectly for me, but I see the sentiment repeated many times so I guess it’s not that uncommon to experience issues. I run it via Docker, mount volumes like I do with other media types, and add properly tagged music in an Artist/Album directory hierarchy. No special tweaking.
I’m not the person you were replying to, but the only issue I ever had using Jellyfin for music was that it seemed.a little finicky about matching artist/album when pulling down metadata, and I had to do more manual intervention.
The actual streaming functionality seemed perfectly fine, but I personally settled on Navidrome for music.
Do you run the files through something like MusicBrainz Picard first? I want to uniformly tag all my music anyway, so I would do that regardless of which media server I used, but it could be doing a poor job if it does not have a MusicBrainz ID associated with it?
No, I wasn’t doing any pre-processing other than “properly” formatting the track name and folder structure. So I can’t really blame Jellyfin, because I know that tagging is part of the best process workflow. But I’ve just found Navidrome seems to be a little more hands off.
Jellyfin sucks for music streaming. It is also very picky with file permissions.
Hey guys, I said “MUSIC STREAMING”. I use Jellyfin for video streaming and I think it’s the best right now. I just don’t like its GUI for music. That said, Jellyfin is a great app but it has some flaws. In my opinion, music handling is the worst part of Jellyfin.
Have zero problems with Jellyfin as the Server, Symfonium as the client on mobile / music assistant for streaming to sonos at home
guffaw
Sorry, but the person above made a blanket statement that Jellyfin sucks for music streaming.
Alas, it does not; example: me, guffaw
It’s true, you’ve changed my opinion! All those people upvoting the other post and not yours must be misclicking! It’s a shame the brightest of us will never burn at dinner time…
I honestly don’t get the hostility, wtf.
If you prefer something other than Jellyfin, good for you.
I hope you have a great rest of your day (and don’t read the wrong thing about too many other comments)!
Thanks for confirming. Felt like I was doing too much work to get it to not work.
Does it have a phone app that also lets you search for and add new music on the go? I’m trying to get my wife off Spot but she refuses without this ability.
Unfortunately, no. You can’t add music through any apps or the web UI. To add music, you have to add files into a folder. And due to security reasons, Navidrome accesses that folder as read-only and therefore can’t write anything to it.
Slskd can be setup to do this.
It’s wild to me that Soulseek persists despite being entirely mediated by a single central server. I would have thought it would have gotten the takedown long ago.
Also the fact that it doesn’t swarm, only does one to one peer sharing is kind of odd to me, but I guess it actually makes some sense in that it constrains the network to being more optimal for smaller files like music and so keeps video off of the platform for the most part.
Worth noting that the Soulseek Wikipedia page lists a bunch of clients you can use, including Seeker for Android and others for all platforms including Linux
Yeah, there are a fair number of nice clients, slskd is just designed to fit into an existing automation flow, and can be accessed through a web browser (though of course you should always practice proper security and avoid exposing it to the web directly).
Never heard of it before. I’ll take a look. Thanks.