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.
My setup is not recommended, honestly. Old gaming PC from about 14 years ago with a couple extra hard drives, thrown in the closet with stripped-down Windows 10 on an old SSD, desktop version of Jellyfin, and an external drive for backups. Not even running in a Docker container because the CMOS battery is dead and getting to it is way too much of a hassle on that particular motherboard, so virtualization defaults to off whenever it completely loses power. Which it unfortunately does on occasion like winter storms, or summer heat, or if the wind is blowing.
But hey, for the movies and shows we have on DVD/BD, as well as the music we've bought over the years, it does work for access from PCs and phones on the local network (Finamp + Jellyfin Media Player). I dabbled with IPTV for live TV replacement but found that only using totally free IPTV+metadata would take either much more work on no-virtualization Windows 10 than I'm willing to put up with, or have much more jank than my family is willing to put up with.
I sometimes question the use of Jellyfin as streaming replacement. It only makes sense, if you have a huge DVD/BD collection you do not want to put into a dedicated player or if you pirate everything.
For music it makes more sense, because smartphones are great music players at home and on the road (and I love buying CDs).
To be fair, even in my family it's not a full streaming replacement. We have Discovery+, Nebula, and (free) YouTube. Live TV from the Roku player is the main thing I want to replace through IPTV, either Jellyfin or maybe Kodi, but both the metadata and functionality of free sources is a crapshoot. If I could replace the Roku live TV use with some inexpensive paid IPTV source, then I could easily switch to any streaming box brand, like ONN or some other generic Android TV.
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 use Jellyfin for movies, TV shows and music.
For music, I use Symfonium as a client on my android phone, as it feels the most feature rich, and has android auto integration.
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 really like Jellyfin and push for it, but since last release, it became barely usable. Unfortunately, it made me and all my users switch to Plex again. Where they preferred to buy the respective Plex clients instead of dealing with Jellyfin issues. It is sad, it could be money donated to Jellyfin at some time.
Seriously, if Jellyfin doesn't fix all subtitles issues with their clients, it will be really hard to be taken as a serious competitor in the area. I hope they take this issue seriously and fix it asap before further damage to the project happens.
Anyway, that issue is 1 year old, and subtitles for some reason just keep getting worse with each update. It is not being taken seriously.
It is so easy to reproduce that there must be something more involved to it, explaining why some people dont have the issue.
I tested and validated with these clients: web, roku, android, android-tv, fire and LG
All have the same issue. So maybe some combination of factors with server.
The bugs are different depending on the media, sometimes delayed subtitles and most of times no subtitles at all. Also, trying to switch subtitles to other languages sometimes just dont take effect unless the playback is restarted. Anyway, it is baraly usable.
Plex has a bunch of infuriating issues that have been ignored for years, but I've yet to have an issue with playback.
Looking forward to jumping on the jellyfin train one day. I have tested it in the past, and it's insane how slow the stupid plex ui is on comparison.
Do more people have the problem Jellyfin doesn't continue to play if you choose shuffle? The countdown to the next episode shows but when it reaches 0 nothing happens.
Play next episode was unchecked. But the weird thing is, it was counting down to the next episode and after the countdown it never returned to the homescreen but instead it stayed on the series splashscreen.
This is genuinely one of the most impressive open source projects out there right now. Seems like 10.9 opened the flood gates for all these amazing contributions and improvements. 81 merges in the last 30 days! Great job jellyfin team!
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