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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by detaro on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:20PM (#43711754)
Anyone have opinions on Jellyfin vs music-specific servers like Navidrome?
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by sodality2 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:27PM (#43711803)
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.
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by thebluelad on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:38PM (#43711860)
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.

Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by Semaphor on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:51PM (#43711942)
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 by thebluelad on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:40PM (#43712245)
That's a good point. I had actually forgotten that it's compatible with Jellyfin. Thanks for the reminder.
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by axelthegerman on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:36AM (#43716619)
Haven't tried it yet but looks quality!

Any comparable options for iOS? Not everyone in my household is on Android unfortunately

Edit: seeing play:sub mentioned maybe I'll have to check that one out

Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by privacyking on Friday April 18, 2025 @05:15PM (#43731937)
Have you tried SuperSonic? I found it better then Feishin
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by Touche on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:26PM (#43711794)
I've used both, and wound up using Jellyfin mostly because it also does movies/TV and I mostly listen to music from external apps, so a music specific server wouldn't be adding much benefit.
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by thebluelad on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:44PM (#43711895)
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.
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by JLO64 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:40PM (#43711873)
I use Navidrome with Amperfy on MacOS/iOS and love it.
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by defrost on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:57PM (#43711969)
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 by TiredOfLife on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:15AM (#43713326)
For me Navidrome actually could run on my raspberry pi with my library.