#Jellyfin app

[hardinternetkid]

How to Install Jellyfin on Windows?

An alternative to Emby and Plex, Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server that allows its users to manage, organize and stream personal media libraries. On this platform, you can store and access a personalized collection of shows, movies, and music and tune in on different devices such as smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, and web browsers. This versatile media server can be installed on…

[dirt-mann]

wolf's rain dvd has a scratch that takes out a whole episode :(

[netscapenavigator-official]

I literally download most of my ambient music these days. Ever since YouTube decided to start running ads on channels, whether they consent or not, it's become increasingly difficult to find ad-free ambient music.

And, like, it's not the fault of the creators. They're faced with two shitty options:

A: Have ads run on their channel and keep a portion of the proceeds.

B: Have ads run on their channel and Google keeps 100% of it.

So, like, I get it. I get why they have to chose to turn ads on, these days. But my smart TV doesn't have an ad-blocker, and it's where I like to play most of my music from since my TV's sound system is the best one I have.

So I usually use terminal apps like yt-dlp to download my ambient music. I then just play it over my Jellyfin server to replicate an ad-free YouTube experience. This is really the only tolerable way I can listen to ambient music, these days. Nothing is a bigger buzzkill than listening to calming, ambient music only to be interrupted by the loudest, brain-rotting ad you've ever heard.

[shituationist]

highly recommend self-hosting jellyfin on an old laptop or PC you have around. takes minimal tech knowledge and they have a smart TV app that connects to your home server. changed the game for me wrt piracy

[mirqmarq428]

For the past year I've been watching all my anime on a dedicated system consisting of a tiny cheap laptop, a giant flat-screen TV, and a wireless keyboard. Streaming it over https via MPV in the terminal because I'm lazy. All my rips are exposed to the internet as numbered mp4s in named directories so the URLs are pretty intuitive, but typing it out is still somewhat of a drag.

I also have jellyfin set up, even tho I hardly ever used it.

Today I finally dug out the Xbox controller and tried connecting it to the laptop. Bluetooth is so unreliable on this thing, so I stuck with the cable. It's a long cable so that's fine.

Problem: the controller doesn't do anything

Solution: install "xboxdrv", then muck about with an app called AntiMicroX for a few hours.

It turns out that Jellyfin web UI has a TV mode, so that's good. What's not good is the limitations of antimicrox on Wayland (at least gnome). I ended up switching back to xorg.

[tparadox]

I decided that today I was going to set up torrenting on my NAS machine. I installed qbittorrent, got into the web UI, then lost contact with it somehow. So I reinstalled it and then tried to set up VPN. It did the thing I stopped using it for on Windows, which is completely failing to make any connections when you set up SOCKS proxy, so I backed up and decided I needed to install a VPN client on the machine.

The guide for setting up Wireguard strongly recommended installing a firewall first, and of course that makes sense, so I did that. And completely failed to allow SSH, therefore killing my access to the machine. The XU4 has no video output, it's completely headless, so I don't believe there was any way to fix that other than doing a clean install on the bootable SD card, which is what I did.

I took the opportunity to switch from OpenMediaVault, which doesn't actually seem to be doing anything for me other than the Samba share since they broke Docker integration, to CasaOS, which... also doesn't seem to be doing much for me but the Samba share since all of its apps are Docker containers and Docker really hasn't been working for me, but at least it's a nicer UI.

I had Jellyfin working before, the curl script just did its thing and I was in, but now it's hitting a dependency issue I had to join the Jellyfin forum to ask for help with. Fortunately I haven't fully migrated to Jellyfin and extra fortunately, I was able to set up the Samba share with exactly the same path so my Kodi library is unaffected.

Tailscale didn't want to start when I installed it, but then I noticed that the machine wanted to reboot for a kernel update and when it came back, Tailscale was working, so I think I have everything I was relying on back to the way it was. I was just really close to jumping to Jellyfin...

[eikotheblue]

The Mobile App: What’s something you have that just never works properly but you still use it?

Staff: Is there any advice you wish you’d listened to, but never did?

Shitposting: What is something that you do purely for fun?

What’s something you have that just never works properly but you still use it? My body the syncplay feature on my jellyfin server.

Staff: Is there any advice you wish you’d listened to, but never did? Hmmm. There's a very large category of, like, life advice (ranging in complexity from very simple stuff like "get enough sleep" to bigger things like "it's actually really really important to prioritize your self-care and personal growth, even if you don't think you deserve it" that I was very skeptical about and had to learn (or am in the process of learning) the hard way. Does that count?

Shitposting: What is something that you do purely for fun? Without splitting hairs on "purely"; consuming fiction and talking about it!

(Verizion lost 1.097 billion dollars ask meme)

[tailsos-official]

@Jellyfin-official pls fix your xbox app I neeeeeedddd itttt

[hardinternetkid]

How Does Jellyfin Work?

Jellyfin is an open-source, free media server solution that is cross-platform compatible. It is designed and developed as a self-hosted substitute for other reliable media streaming platforms like Emby and Plex. Using Jellyfin, you can access all your media files, such as tv shows, movies, photos, and music, from a wide range of devices like smart TVs, smartphones, tablets, and web…

[netscapenavigator-official]

How do u like jellyfin? I've been using kodi since i've been looking for something more featured than VLC for browsing media but it feels bloated and makes wayyy to many internet connections automatically for me to really enjoy it or feel safe running it on any device that seeds torrents. I'm strongly considering jellyfin since I despise plex and ember is proprietary.

It’s the only media server software I’ve ever used, so I don’t have any points of comparison. Also, a transparency preface, the device my server is hosted on is an M1 Apple iMac that's running up-to-date macOS (as of the time of writing, that’s macOS Sonoma 14.1), so as always, your mileage could always vary on other operating systems and chipset architectures.

I also view content exclusively via the iOS app, Apple TV app, and Firefox for Linux x86-64, all of which I’ve never had a problem with.

For the most part, however, I haven’t had any complaints. I keep all of my content on a 2TB USB External HDD that I bought from Walmart. It stays plugged into the computer 24/7, and all I had to do was tell Jellyfin where the files were, which you have to do regardless of where they are.

I’m not an advanced user by any means. I’d love to get outside network support going, but even that is proving too intimidating for me. I probably don’t take advantage of most of the advanced features, either. From my experience with Jellyfin, though, it does what I wanted it to: allow me to view my videos and photos without having to download them onto my phone. I have three users set up (including the one mandatory admin profile), and that’s probably the most non-out-of-the-box thing I’ve done.

The only issue I’ve had is that if your host device loses power (or somehow force shutsdown or crashes without first properly quitting the Jellyfin app) during a library sync (which can take a long time if you’ve added a lot of data at once and are running it off an external HDD), the on-device database file seems to corrupt easily. When this database file gets corrupted, it makes the Jellyfin app panic and shutdown without actually closing the app. As a result, the app looks like it’s running properly, but when you try to access it from anywhere, it’ll fail to load. You have to check the .txt file logs to actually see the panic code and shutdown command. I’ve had that happen twice, and it isn’t very pleasant. Luckily, I also use macOS’s Time Machine feature, so I had plenty of backups. However, it is annoying to have to sort that out, and if you didn’t have backups, you’d basically have to restart the server from scratch. Your content would be fine, but all of your manual IMDb data, custom thumbnails, reported file locations, etc. would be factory reset.

Of course, if you’re running the server on something with a backup power supply or a built-in battery, that eliminates a lot of the risk. The iMac I run my server on also acts as a secondary computer, for me. So I'm also at a heightened risk of crashing and whatnot. If you had a dedicated server computer that did nothing but act as your Jellyfin server, that'd also probably help alleviate some risk.

The extent of my daily use of Jellyfin is constantly playing ambient music from an old iPad next to my stereo, and occasionally viewing images and videos from my phone or laptop. I’m certainly not a power user, but for me, I’ve never had any reason to dislike Jellyfin, so I don’t exactly have a desire to go looking for an alternative. It does what I need it to do, and it does it smoothly, simply, and reliably.

If you're looking for a more advanced user's opinion, however, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong blog.

[seedplicity]

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[tparadox]

A couple of weeks ago I got to work and realized I forgot to bring the tablet I had the movie I was doing to watch at lunch loaded onto. But I have my home NAS set up with Tailscale mesh VPN so I just turned on Tailscale on my phone and downloaded the movie I was going to watch. Easy!

Yesterday I was hanging out at my sister in law's home and I wasn't interested in what the kids were watching on the TV so I turned on Tailscale and opened my Jellyfin app and streamed an episode of one of my favorite shows.

I don't necessarily like having to switch my VPN but I don't really need to get a reverse proxy tunnel yet, so this is already working really well.

[highwarlockofinnsbruck]

been trying to figure out how to host my own music streaming server on my raspi since ... well ever since i yeeted spotify a while back ... i'm already doing a minidlna server for video streaming (limited options bc lgTV and also i don't want to use plex. i don't vibe with their user data policies and i'm trying to stay as open source as possible). due to my wish to stay open source a lot of popular options like subsonic fall flat (also fucking hell the permissions most android apps request for it are just ridiculous!) honestly i want something that works pretty similarly to spotify premium, syncinng across devices and being able to download files for on the go (while port forwarding was finally added to my isp-provided router it's still not an option since my raspi has a vpn running that doesn't provide it) i decided to give kodi a try, which turned out not to be what i wanted, but i found emby while trying to trouble shoot some stuff. seemed to work pretty okay, altho it's only partially open source and the option to download is behind a paywall (which i would actually be willing to try since they offer a lifetime option and a monthly option i'd use to try and see if it's right for me). it did only load like a 1/3 of the album art correclty. and it doesn't seem to give me the option to resume playback after closing the app. once again in the wake of troubleshooting i found jellyfin, which is a fork of emby, based on all it's open source part. it does support download these days and is completely free. not sure if the download does anything tho since the app always tries to connect to the server and gets stuck loading when i'm offline ... i found a 3rd party app called finamp that has an offlinemode, in which you can't edit playlists or anything ... so also not the right solution for me and like. i very much appreciate what the devs (especially for the completely free and open source) jellyfin and finamp are doing and i'm mostly frustrated that i can't find anything that hits the sweet spot of what i like, on top of most guides being mostly about video hosting, and so predominantley about plex ... it's just annoying

[tom2tec]

Jellyfin Audio Player ~ Stream Your Songs

Jellyfin Audio Player ~ Stream Your Songs

This is a React Native-based audio streaming app for Jellyfin. Jellyfin is a community-based piece of software that allows you to stream your media library over the internet. By means of React Native, Jellyfin Audio Player allows you to stream your Jellyfin Music library, with full support for background audio and casting (ie. Airplay and…

[mycelea]

oshit my ps3 automatically detected my jellyfin server! didn't need to download an app or anything!