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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 joshuaturner »

dhosek wrote: post #17

My strategy for syncing my music library with my phone is that I have four smart playlists: - songs rated 5 stars which I haven’t listened to for at least 8 months¹ - songs rated 4 stars which I haven’t listened to for at least 16 months - songs rated 3 stars which I haven’t listened to for at least 32 months - the 20GB of least-played music (there are some other strictures as well, like eliminating Christmas music a…

This reminds me of my smart playlist on Apple Music.

It's called "long time no see" and it includes any songs I've listened to more than 10 times but haven't listened to in the last year. I've been using the same music library for nearly two decades now, so it works really well for me. It's like a constantly rotating nostalgia playlist.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by vvpan »

I finally decided to self-host last week and boy I did not know how much that domain has progressed. I have setup a domain, a VPS with Cloudron and cloud backup in less than two hours. I was absolutely blown away. I no longer use notion and store all my files and photos on the VPS, it has been wonderful. The bonus is how good I feel about my for not relying on the big players.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by akdor1154 »

panopticon wrote: post #12

I embarked on a similar journey last year after YouTube Music took down some albums I listened to religiously. I settled on Plex + Plexamp instead. I'm mostly satisfied, but there are some rough edges like Chromecast and web playback.

Plexamp is awesome and i miss it a bit as a Jellyfin user... But i don't trust the plex codebase. My suspicions were firmed up when Lastpass got hacked literally through Plex.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by Semaphor »

thebluelad wrote: post #22
sodality2 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Symfonium [0] is pretty universally loved (I also use it), but doesn’t care if you point it at Navidrome, or Jellyfin, or anything else supported.

[0]: https://symfonium.app/

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by bob1029 »

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

I've been working on a custom media server that does streaming, block-based storage on top of S3, with the local disk being used as a cache.

I implemented an override of Stream in C# that can be passed directly to an HttpContext file response. This gives me range-based response support on top of cached S3 media blocks for free. The front-end uses ffmpeg to do a quick transcode on uploads to guarantee fast start of mp4 content in my html video elements.

The cool thing with having a reasonable sized cache is that you can switch to glacier infrequent access tier (i.e., the one intended for quarterly reporting) and save a lot of money on storage. The other fun bit is that it is shared across all clients on the LAN, so if someone watches a show before you, you'll just read it from local during your run through.

For me, I don't need a lot of fancy bullshit in a media solution. An un-styled web player that just works on my MacBook is pretty much the only client support I care about. My media library currently shows up as a monolithic without any pagination. Time to first frame on an uncached video click is well under a second on a 1gbps fiber connection using 32 megabyte block size to US-EAST-1 from Texas.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by defrost »

detaro wrote: post #5

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

I like Jellyfin and have it set up for movie, tvseries, youtube channel hosting for family members.

As a music server it has a few shortcomings (that can be fixed with contributed code - ATM this one is waaay down my TODO list so anyone that wants to step up - go for it, please) ..

It currently has non existent support of FullAlbum.flac with 'standard' TrackIndex.Cue track timing lists.

I ripped a lot of my early albums and CD's as single lossless FLAC (and APE and another format) files with track timings courtesy of either hand entry or the exactCD (?) database - there are many such rips out there is full album rips where popular for a good run of time.

Jellyfin sees these as single files, not as an album of tracks, and plays them as such with no track selection, next track, or resume.

Addressing this is on the github issues list.

Foobar2K and other music players have no issues with these files.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by blendertom »

vvpan wrote: post #32

I finally decided to self-host last week and boy I did not know how much that domain has progressed. I have setup a domain, a VPS with Cloudron and cloud backup in less than two hours. I was absolutely blown away. I no longer use notion and store all my files and photos on the VPS, it has been wonderful. The bonus is how good I feel about my for not relying on the big players.

Can you share more about your set up?

How much storage, are you backing up your data elsewhere?

And what did it cost you, apart from time?

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