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Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by raffraffraff »

Pius_IX wrote: post #128
raffraffraff wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh man, I can't find a single usable music app on Linux. I've used MusicBee for years on wine, but I'm stuck on an older version (for stability) and now that I want to run all of my stuff on a Rpi4 I'm screwed (wine+x86 app is a pain). I installed quodlibet, rythmbox, clementine, amarok... All hot garbage when it comes to UI layout. So for now I'm still running MusicBee on an old laptop and controlling playback via t…

Did you ever try out gmusicplayer? Depending on what you are looking for it might be something for you. Very customizable and for 'advanced users'. It allows you to combine using Folders and tags for example. Want all it to list all Albums of a single artist in a single Folder? Done. Want it to show you all Artists in One Folder and then again show the contents of that Folder but only those relating to the picked art…

I'll try it. At this point I've forgotten the ones I've tried over the years. Every year or so I tend to install everything that a Google search turns up. Some I immediately uninstall. Others I kick the tires for a while but ultimately find some major flaw.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by raffraffraff »

GOATS- wrote: post #137
raffraffraff wrote: post #113

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Oh man, I can't find a single usable music app on Linux. I've used MusicBee for years on wine, but I'm stuck on an older version (for stability) and now that I want to run all of my stuff on a Rpi4 I'm screwed (wine+x86 app is a pain). I installed quodlibet, rythmbox, clementine, amarok... All hot garbage when it comes to UI layout. So for now I'm still running MusicBee on an old laptop and controlling playback via t…

I've been a huge fan of the mpd+ncmpcpp combo for quite some time now.

I'll try it out

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by deluan »

klahaha wrote: post #106
napkin wrote: post #32

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Just try Navidrome!

i use navidrome but no folder view, so mixtapes with many artist is counted like many albums

Just tag the tracks of you mixtape with "compilation=true": https://www.navidrome.org/docs/faq/#i-have-an-album-with-tra...

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by lardo »

antihero wrote: post #134

Are there any ways to get something like XBMC running directly on an LG Smart TV? Currently I am finding that having MP4 files on a pen drive is actually far less hassle. However, the TV's lack of support for MKV files is frustrating - trying to simply rewrap them as MP4 using FFMpeg doesn't seem to work for some reason.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos looks promising

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by ValentineC »

wussboy wrote: post #86
jszymborski wrote: post #2

I've been a Plex-to-Jellyfin convert for a long while now, and I've nothing bad to say. I switched because Plex kept pushing their streaming services, and the fuzzy feeling I get from running FOSS. Jellyfin used to run on my desktop which has a beefy CPU/GPU, but runs fine on my puny Synology NAS.

I switched to Jellyfin because Plex refuses to just show me the files in my directory. Why can’t you just let me have a directory view? Makes my blood boil just topping it out.

I don't get this. I'm a Jellyfin user too, and I've never seen an option for a directory view in the web UI.

At least my movies are reasonably well-catalogued. My TV shows are still a mess because of how inflexible their naming policy is.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by blue-gum »

querez wrote: post #35

In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "whee…

I run both Jellyfin and Plex at the same time with the same library. I personally don't like Jellyfin either. I often have problems with stream freezing (especially if fast forward/backward). I play both directly from the browser.

I feel like Jellyfin GUI reminders me of XBMC/Kodi GUI a bit and might make it a better fit for home media setups/tvs

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by crobibero »

rglullis wrote: post #156
klahaha wrote: post #103

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jellyfin is good but lots of bugs need help. "just being user" like me is not helping very much

It is not just about solving bugs, it is also about gaining mindshare. If a user comes to me and (politely) says "I want to use your product, but while issue X is not solved I will have to stay with your competitor", guess what will get prioritized in the backlog?

As a Jellyfin maintainer, I can confirm that these messages are never polite and are not prioritized.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by Godel_unicode »

klahaha wrote: post #109
Godel_unicode wrote: post #91

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I don't understand this desire, why would you ever want that? The point of using something like Plex is to organize by metadata.

manual change for metadata is bigger work when you have big library, move or rename folder is easy and fast from terminal of FTP you dont require custom web app and auto-metadata from IMDB and other API is bad if you have niche videos (me: documentaires for anarchism, feminism, anti-colonialism). so bad it can replace good data with bad data (example sub.media/c/trouble documentary series becomes "good trouble" serie…

It sounds like you agree that Plex is not what you should be using in that usecase.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by [deleted] »

avh02 wrote: post #101
Godel_unicode wrote: post #91

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I don't understand this desire, why would you ever want that? The point of using something like Plex is to organize by metadata.

Because some people just prefer something to be laid out a certain way. I have that with music for example, I don't care about albums other than a grouping unit for files (my playlist is flat though). Album art, etc is otherwise irrelevant to me, but some music apps will fetishize organization by album, etc and the art is highlighted etc.

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