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.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago

No, I wasn't doing any pre-processing other than "properly" formatting the track name and folder structure. So I can't really blame Jellyfin, because I know that tagging is part of the best process workflow. But I've just found Navidrome seems to be a little more hands off.

[–] almino@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jellyfin sucks for music streaming. It is also very picky with file permissions.

[–] almino@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Have zero problems with Jellyfin as the Server, Symfonium as the client on mobile / music assistant for streaming to sonos at home

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks for confirming. Felt like I was doing too much work to get it to not work.