jellyfin-docs VS Navidrome Music Server

I had issues getting it to stream directly to my TV. It wasn't easy to find but what solved it for me was changing the DLNA profile settings like this example: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/issues/233

It kinda depends on what languages you wanna work with and if you wanna be in the server or in a client. There's a rudimentary/incomplete (and probably somewhat out of date) source tree document located here.

Indirectly possible with NGINX: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/pull/689

Seems skimpy.. below is JF HA Accel documentation. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/blob/master/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.md/

If the developers don't provide instructions it'll be harder. But, for example, the maintainers of the Jellyfin project (an open source media system for playing local files) have an extensive page of instructions here for how to install it on various types of systems. They recommend using docker containers on Linux, and have instructions for that. But if you scroll down further they give you line-by-line commands to run on different types of Linux systems.

I found some documentation on the manga / comic specific metadata providers here, but note that no online metadata provider has been added for mangas / comics. It's all based on local files or on the ones used by books.

This has been submitted as a PR to the jellyfin docs page, and would love to see it get merged in there too!

For the file structure, there is some documentation on GitHub. Or you could use the documentation for books. As there is no online metadata provider (right now), it doesn't matter that much. The naming scheme of the comic documentation on GitHub is similar to the one comictagger uses (which is a ComicVine scraper).

Depends on your media but here are the integrated Intel capabilities. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/QuickSync . Here is the general transcoding page: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/blob/master/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.md/

My primary way to play music is from my self-hosted navidrome[1] server with my collection of albums I've mostly purchased from bandcamp. I can stream it to many different devices at home or on the go.

But sitting next to my bed is a Walkman (actually a $10 Jensen version) with a few of my favorite cassettes in the nightstand drawer. Granted, I listen to raw black metal, so the format fits the music well, but I really enjoy just popping in a cassette and hitting play. When I "metaltate", I listen to full albums and do not want to ever be interrupted or have skipping audio due to bluetooth or anything else. It is a really simple and great experience.

Would I ever take my walkman with me or want to carry around a bunch of tapes on a trip? Of course not! But it does have a time and place that is valuable.

When friends come over, we use either vinyl or my custom built RFID cards. There is more of a ceremony to digging through a physical stack of albums and being forced to listen to the album front to back.

[1] https://www.navidrome.org/

Basically, you run a server on your Mac that scans your music collection and "broadcasts" it to the network (LAN or WAN) via either the venerable UPnP/DLNA[1] family of technologies or the newish Subsonic API[2]. Of course, there are others, like DAAP or AURA, etc..

From there, you need to point a compatible player to said server to play your music on any supported device.

If you want to listen to your music on the go, pairing a Subsonic-compatible server on your Mac and a Subsonic-compatible app on your iPhone is probably the way to go. On the server side, I have only used the original Subsonic[3], which was good, but Navidrome[4] seems to be OK. But be aware that the whole "scene" is super messy and fragmented, with the usual abandoned forks of open source alternatives of everything.

Note that this means opening your local network, which comes with its own complexity.

This r/selfhosted thread[5] should give you an idea.

My use case is slightly different. I only care about streaming to my Denon CEOL mini system, which only supports UPnP/DLNA, so my current setup is:

- All my music is stored on a 2011 Mac Mini,

- I use Kazoo Server[6] (not perfect but reliable) to stream it to my audio system,

- which I control via the HEOS app provided by Denon.

Whatever stack you choose, make sure your files are tagged correctly and consistently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA

[2] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp

[3] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

[4] https://www.navidrome.org/

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/pz9dpb/lets_mak...

[6] https://docs.linn.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Kazoo_Server_setup_Ma...

[Scanner] Fix Windows scanner (#2633). Thanks @caiocotts

EDIT: This version has a bug when running on Windows that breaks your database! I deleted the Windows binary from the download page and will publish a fix very soon. For details see: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/issues/2630

Jellyfin is great for movies & shows. As an anecdote, it's not so good for music if you're a collector. I personally use Navidrome for that[0].

Anyway, Sonarr[1] makes use of .NET, too. Very reliable software, in my experience.

[0]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

I am running ND via the docker container (deluan/navidrome:latest which is 0.49.3 (8b93962f) at the time of this writing) and interact with ND using the web interface.