jellyfin-expo VS jellysub

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…

To summarise what we've gotten to so far: - Jellyfin web can do this using Instant Mix feature, but instant mix is at present pretty basic (see discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/o0eic8/what_is_instant_mix_actually_based_on_also_is/). It won't work very well at the level of "Artist" but starting from a specific track or album produces a pretty good mix for some music in my library. Instant mixes can be saved as playlists. - Some Jellyfin apps can do this: especially symfonium (android) has advanced features for making mixes. The only limitation here seems to be saving playlists back to jellyfin server. And if you don't have an android phone and sonixd has a very limited ability to create a (completely, and imho unhelpfully) random playlist. - There are more convoluted solutions. Jellyfin users can try to use Subsonic clients with jellyfin by installing a server shim, but it seems this isn't being developed anymore and I wasn't able to get it running. It is also possible to use jellyfin as an MPD server, so more generic clients can be used here too.

For the Jellyfin API it might be worth adding https://github.com/nvllsvm/jellysub, it's an API compatibility layer to let Subsonic-compatible apps query Jellyfin.

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