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?
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…
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?
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
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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.