So I used Jellyfin mostly for series and movies, so far work great. However I got a couple of audiobooks I want to listen to on my way to work and Jellyfin stop working each time I close my screen. So yeah…
What are you using for music ?
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Audiobookshelf for audiobooks and Navidrome for music.
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I dont use Jellyfin, but I heard of some of the things it did and jellyfin sounded like a step above due to its dedicated music app and similar songs for playlists.
I use Navidrome as the server and Symfonium for the mobile app. It is by far the best option I have ever used in the 20 years of setting up a personal server. I used Subsonic before this but it was abandoned years ago and Navidrome is a fork of it. The amount of continuous effort put in and new features that still get released is fantastic. Im always excited when i see a new version drop.
audiobookshelf for audiobooks specifically, with Lissen as the android client.
For music, Navidrome with Tempus as android client and Feishin as desktop client.
For those okay with non-foss, absorb is a good option for audiobooks on android. The download feature works better than others I’ve tried.
Pretty sure absorb is foss, just not available on the fdroid store.
A fellow Tempus enjoyer
indeed enjoying it muchly! Coming from (paid) symfonium, but not missing anything as Tempus is nearly as beautiful. Can’t say it’s lacking any features that I need, so yea, very happy with it.
Only downside, if any, is since its foss, it’ll end up costing me more through donations than the one-time Symfonium payment 🤣
It’s the only open source client I’ve found that works relatively well with Android Auto :)
My exact setup after trying a lot of different configurations.
Well besides the excellent options already mentioned by others, there is also Finamp, a Jellyfin music player.
Others have also mentioned Symfonium which can play audio from a Jellyfin server as well, not only from a subsonic one like Navidrome.
So far Finamp doesn’t seems to find my music folder, I’m restarting my server. Will see
See if you can get it going. I’ve found it to be a wonderful tool to listen to music.
And yeah audiobookshelf is king for audio books. You’d have to tinker with jellyfin a lot to get half the features. Better to use something that just works out the box
I e always like Plex/Plexamp but have been using Jellyfin more lately and found Finamp to be pretty solid. I just wash it worked with Apple CarPlay.
For Jellyfin, I prefer Manet.
Overall, though, I keep my music in Navidrome rather than Jellyfin.
Jellyfin stop working each time I close my screen.
screen of what? Laptop? Phone? Tablet?
it may just be a background permission problem
Phone
For music use Finamp or Symfonium. I’ve my music in directories and Finamp is fine.
Yeah I’ve found those too. Thanks I’ve seems to have solved my issue
I started using Navidrom as suggested by someone in the group. I do not have audio books but it has a spot for them. If you want to get all fancy like you can use the MusicBrainz Picard for tagging stuff differently (or something like that I am really feeling the glue and sealant they used to put down the laminate in my place right now) but AudioMuse-AI does something to (again really feeling it).
Next step is Navidrom or AudioBookshelf (self ?) but it’s late here. Also go take some air
AudioMuse-AI is amazing for large music libraries
Are you asking about music, or audiobooks specifically? I haven’t tinkered with audiobooks so am not sure if that’s handled differently…
For music I’ve been using Jellyfin as the server. On Android have tried a bunch of different apps, substreamer and Symfonium are the better apps. But I also like Fintunes, Jellify, and Resonus.
Fun fact: You can use most OpenSubsonic / Subsonic compatible apps with Jellyfin once you add the Subfin plugin (https://github.com/williamkray/subfin-plugin).
Jellyfin doesnt handle music quite as well as Navidrome does. Jellyfin is awesome for watchable media but it lacks a little on music. Navidrome handles artist metadata better. For clients, 100% Feishin on desktop, its just about perfect. On mobile, Castafiore or Resonus I think are two of the best. Finamp is great for a Jellyfin client on mobile but still it depends on the Jellyfin server which again doesnt handle metadata as well.
BookPlayer is another one for iOS
If you have an android phone, you’re welcome to use my app Stillshelf. It has two shells, one for audiobooks (audiobookshelf specifically) and the other for music (Navidrome).
For Music and streaming, specially for hi-res audio. SACD etc streaming, take a look at lyrion music server. The best solution of the myriad I tried self-hosting. Supports podcasts and audiobooks as well
While I use plexamp/finamp for music and jellyfin/Plex for video, I use audiobookshelf for my audio books and it works amazingly well.
For music I ended up using navidrome, and, on Android symfonium, which is paid (single payment) but so good, better than anything I tried at least a year ago. On a computer you can use any open subsonic client since navidrome exposes that
I love Symfonium so much it’s such a stellar app that’s actively developed and very customizable. It was so so so worth the $5 or $10 I paid for it.
Symfonium really is so good, solved a bunch of headaches I was having
