gelli VS jellyfin-audio-player

Since recently, I mostly used Gelli to play my jellyfin music library and was very happy with it, then I discovered Symfonium and bought it because of the Android Auto compatibility, + I like the "random" list on 1st page which allow me to rediscover old stuff I may have forgotten.

I hate spotify so I built a Jellyfin server with my own audio files so I can stream them everywhere I go. Cleaning up all the tags was a *lot* of work. Playback using Gelli (I've also become a contributor in the process because it was the best player for Jellyfin but missing some features I would've liked) and scobbling with Pano scrobbler for Android.

Maybe Gelli would work for you.

For music playing only from a Jellyfin server, I would recommend Gelli, which features gapless and cache. It's the best music player I know for Jellyfin.

I listen to music on my phone with Gelli. This does not scrobble music either. I'm open to switching apps but finamp seems also not to support scrobbling.

Jellyfin on the server side and Gelli for the client assuming you are using Android.

Gelli (version 1.3.3): Native music player for Jellyfin

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You can just use the music player app from your android phone to connect your jellyfin. Such as gelli or finamp

You could try Jellyfin as a media server, it has various Android apps that can stream from it that work quite well. I haven't made up my mind yet which one I prefer, so I use both interchangeably: Gelli and Finamp.

You're welcome! Finamp is very good, then there's also https://github.com/leinelissen/jellyfin-audio-player which is also worth trying.

Fintunes: Streaming audio player for Jellyfin

Check out Fintunes for music! https://github.com/leinelissen/jellyfin-audio-player

jellyfin-audio-player Has a more iOS-centric design

I’d also like to point out Jellyfin Audio Player, which looks far more native on iOS.

Jellyfin Audio Player also exists, but I've not tried it quite as much. It seems to be somewhat inferior to Gelli feature wise, and also doesn't have offline mode. It does have a unique somewhat "iOS-like" interface if that's something your brother would like. It is also installed by sideloading.

Your best shot at this point in time might be trying the unofficial Jellyfin Audio Player.