I run it on my Debian server that uses my 15 TB RAID5 array as storage. (When I built it, 15 TB drives were a dream...now I have a 12 TB drive in my desktop computer that serves as backup to the array.)
I mainly serve it out to the client on our DirectTV streaming device. Works fine, other than I wish the intro skip plugin would be able to give me the option to skip on that client (the only way it works on the Android client is to have it skip automatically).
I could be completely wrong, but I know they have a tagging system in place. The tags presumably come from metadata providers (they give basic information about the song, like who wrote it and when it was made, as well as pictures for album covers and such). After that they can pretty easily look for similarities, eg. two items both tagged funny. If you were concerned that they upload your listening history somewhere to come up with recommendations, they do not.
Currently, everything is setup on my main desktop which is currently on a battery backup as well as my modem and router since we occasionally have a “blink” in the power which could frack up my entire setup. I’ll move to a proper NAS setup with a mini-PC eventually, but it’s not a priority.
I use Jellyfin as a whole “Netflix” experience, where the library is always expanding and nothing ever leaves the library unless I just get annoyed (looking at you, Netflix ATLA). I’ve got about 20TB of space spread across three drives and backups of everything, so whatever sparks my whimsy to add to the library gets added. Someone quips, “Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica” and I think, “Hm…maybe I should Battlestar Galactica to my Jellyfin?” I add it, and it’s just there whenever I’m ready.
I’ve shared with 8 friends and family so far. They don’t all use it constantly; some forget about it, some watch it all day and night for like 5 days in a row, some ask for something and watch immediately, others ask for stuff and don’t watch ever.
I have to add that Jellyfin has actually been life-changing for me. Prior to Jellyfin, my solution was a cheap laptop attached to each TV in the house that held a fair amount of my total content via smaller external drives, and there was no cohesiveness, so I could never “get into” shows because I’d have to remember where I’d left off, and make sure the files were copied to the relative laptop, or somehow try to stream from the main desktop through Windows Network which didn’t always connect.
Now, have access to every single part of my collection on all three TVs, and share with my friends and family who have given up on paying for 7 different streaming apps, and also I have access to everything when I travel.
I just wish that I was adept in some language so I could actively help with a project I love so much. ☺️
I have a core i3 system with a PCIe SAS controller and 8x 8TB drives in RAID 6. It currently hosts my Jellyfin library, Immich library, and is also my primary fileserver for the LAN. I actually just moved my old 4x 5TB array from that machine over to my primary desktop to hold my Steam library. Pretty good setup if you like to tinker around with stuff.
I'm using Proxmox with a NixOS LXC for Jellyfin/*arr. The media is stored on a single btrfs HDD, because high uptime (RAID) isn't necessary for me and it's media I can simply redownload.
I'm looking into switching to NixOS on bare metal, because I don't need the UI of proxmox and most other features.
Symphonium is great for music, even though it's closed source and paid. I'm mostly using Spotify though.
Findroid is an awesome native Android app for watching tv/movies, altough it doesn't support transcoding.
FreeBSD server with an appjail for jellyfin. Native ZFS storage, 10 gigabit networking via SFP+ DAC. I just use finamp on mobile for music and the official apps on TVs/chromecasts. UPS keeps everything streamable if the power goes out
I'm interested in this too. I have unreleased music that I've made and it somehow generates reasonable similarities to other music in my library. It can't be simply pulling the info from the net since the artist name I'm using isn't out there anywhere. Some kind of spectral analysis maybe?
I have no clue what could be causing that. I'd start looking into each link in the chain and making sure it's working.
But any halfway reasonable config should be able to handle audio playback, no matter how lossless. Audio-only just doesn't achieve datarates that would choke up... Anything.
Essentially, benchmark file transfers, transcoding, etc. Make sure each step of how it works is in fact working. Check drive SMART health... Whatever you can think of.
Also logs. No need to read through thousands of lines, but looking at the lines time stamped around when the issue occurs is always a good idea. FFMPEG logs, JF logs, client player logs, does SMB or whatever network drive protocol you're using have logs? If it does, check em.
Outside of Jellyfin, the computers seem to communicate just fine. Transfer speeds are what I would expect and disk read/write is usually fine as well. Like I mentioned in the post, it self-resolved since I made the post. But my concern is the same: what could be causing the underlying issue? I'll check the logs later and I'll report back
Edit: forgot to mention that I have a few 5.1 SACDs @ 24/192k that have always completely choked my system. Doesn't matter which machine or how extreme the transcoded settings are, it nukes the playback
So I checked the available logs after streaming a playlist for a while, which I've never done before (probably a huge mistake on my part). I have a generic "log_xxxxxxx.log" file that doesn't seem to have any relevant info, but the only ffmpeg logs I have are related to video files from yesterday. Interestingly, the transcoding speeds seem to slow down over time; flac/wav files seem fine at first, but struggle to play after 30 minutes or so in a playlist of constant playback.
Your hardware is more than capable. I'm running on a ten year old dell optiplex and don't have these issues. I suspect your issue is Windows, more specifically something else on windows, such as antivirus, updates etc. blocking disk I/O
I'm sorry to say but it's Windows. You never really know. Have you considered getting an old optiplex on Amazon Renewed and putting Debian and Jellyfin on that?
Update for the people downvoting:
I am a professional platform engineer. By 'Windows. You never really know' I mean that there are always ten thousand things running, you're never going to have a full grasp of everything that's happening in the way that you could with a stripped down linux environment. My own Jellyfin instance is running on
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590S CPU @ 3.00GHz
8GB RAM
Integrated Graphics
Shipped AUG 2014
Ubuntu 22.04 with deb installation of Jellyfin
All clients connect via Wifi although server is cat5 to switch. Most of my video does not require transcoding. There are plenty of FLAC audio files in my library. I don't see slowdowns as described here.
Restart jellyfin and take a look at the logs? There may be some useful info there pointing to the issue. Go to your 'dashboard' then click 'Logs' - look through that see if anything stands out. If that doesn't work you may need to enable debug logging: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/troubleshooting/
Well I enabled debugging, restarted jellyfin and performed all three refresh operations and the episodes are still missing thumbnails. There was only one debugging item in the log about a broadcast socket
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