jellyfin-expo VS gelli

Jellyfin Mobile issue

Yeah this is exactly right. I am hoping to have download support available as a user setting under a “beta” status in the next release of the expo app. Progress can be followed here.

The iOS app is open source, so you are welcome to contribute a PR: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo

It's maintaned by a single developer in his spare time, so I'm sure he'd appreciate it!

Timelines are hard, especially when it's an entirely volunteer ran project and there's effectively only one person working on the client in question (who also works on 2-3 other clients as well, and has a day job). So the "when" is basically whenever somebody with the time and skills is willing to work on implementing the things in the linked issue here, which would probably be the best place for you to follow if you want updates.

The current implementation in development is really barebones… additional work on it is being tracked here: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo/issues/372

Not yet, but it is in the works…

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

GitHub

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.