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Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by toomuchtodo »

whalesalad wrote: post #16
toomuchtodo wrote: post #11

Just wish Jellyfin would support S3 compatible targets for media storage :/ point at bucket(s), scan/index/enrich, serve to clients

Could you run a user space s3 filesystem that jellyfin thinks is a regular disk filesystem.

You can, it’s just suboptimal in my experience and incurs troubleshooting time. I’ve been meaning to put a bounty on S3 compatible support via a fork (maintainers are not interested and believe posix file system is preferable), just haven’t had the time. Hopefully soon!

Desired pipeline is “Ingest->MusicBrainz->Object Storage (music bucket, write once read many)->Serve to various clients from middleware server (Jellyfin).”

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Post by thebluelad »

sodality2 wrote: post #10
detaro wrote: post #5

Anyone have opinions on Jellyfin vs music-specific servers like Navidrome?

Personally I switched Navidrome since I found the clients to be better and the scanner to be lighter, but there's a few things I miss: casting was nice, as well as centralizing my media on one everything-app.

I use Navidrome with Feishin as a client on PC and Symfonium on my phone. Symfonium allows me to cast in the same way as Spotify.

Symfonium is paid but appears to be one of the rare apps that is still thoughtfully created by somebody who actually uses it. The developer deserves the support.

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Post by thebluelad »

detaro wrote: post #5

Anyone have opinions on Jellyfin vs music-specific servers like Navidrome?

I haven't spent much time trying Jellyfin but I really like having my music information in a central location (Navidrome) and being able to stream to a variety of different clients based on my device. It works well for me so far.

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Post by gigel82 »

I have Navidrome with the "play:Sub" app on iOS (because it works with carplay) for a few obscure albums and it works ok, but I still pay for Spotify because it's convenient and it has most of the music I want.

When we start getting the same splintering that we have with video (too many subscriptions to count), I'll dust off my old eyepatch and start sailing the seven seas... :(

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