Jellyfin

The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API (by jellyfin)

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Jellyfin reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jellyfin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-03-17.
  • Pain & suffering. Cleanup Jellyfin libraries
    1 project | dev.to | 5 Jul 2026
    Shout out to @MrSimmo and @Zardoz8901 from this issue on github! Do read the issue for more context.
  • New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 May 2026
    Are you talking about the Jellyfin server? It is quite an active project. Last release was 10.11.8 about a month ago, and github says that there have been 1049 commits to master since then.

    https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.11.8

  • Music Streaming
    8 projects | dev.to | 17 Mar 2026
    Jellyfin is primarily a video media server, but its music support is solid enough to be a strong contender β€” especially if you already run it for movies and TV. You get a unified library for video, music, audiobooks, and photos, with a single web UI and mobile apps covering everything.
  • US Court of Appeals: TOS can be updated by email, continued use implies consent [pdf]
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2026
    [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/) is a great alternative to Plex if you haven't taken a look!
  • Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2025
    I installed Jellyfin on my home server a few months ago but it’s already broken by upgrading to 10.11, and unusable until I restore 10.10 from backup or start over: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/15027. There seem to be lots of other database migration bugs for this release and other ones.
  • Show HN: Jellyfin SDK for Python – high-level wrapper around the Jellyfin API
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2025
    Hey HN,

    I’ve been working on a new Python SDK for [Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org/). The official Python client (`jellyfin-apiclient-python`) is pretty much unmaintained, and I kept running into rough edges (missing exceptions, mismatched info/config, no playlist support, etc.).

    So I built a new library: [*jellyfin-sdk*](https://github.com/webysther/jellyfin-sdk-python). It’s basically a high-level wrapper on top of OpenAPI-generated bindings, with some nicer patterns (method chaining, JSONPath, inversion of control). A few things it does differently:

    * Target specific Jellyfin server versions (avoid breakage when APIs change)

  • The Daily Gist: Never miss the best of Reddit again. Powered by Bright Data.
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Aug 2025
    In my case, the completed video is saved to a shared storage volume accessible by a Jellyfin media server running in a parallel container. This setup allows me to seamlessly stream and watch my personalized Reddit summary on any of my devices. While this is great for personal viewing, the workflow can be easily extended using n8n's built-in integrations to automatically upload the video to YouTube, send it via Telegram, or distribute it to virtually any other platform.
  • .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2025
  • Self-Hosted Streaming with Jellyfin and ngrok – A Personal Weekend Project
    1 project | dev.to | 10 Jul 2025
    That's when I turned to Jellyfin, a free, open-source media streaming solution. Paired with ngrok, I could securely share access with family and now had my very own private Netflix running directly from my Linux desktop. This was one of those side projects that started as a practical fix but turned into an unexpectedly enjoyable weekend build.
  • HomeLab
    18 projects | dev.to | 17 Jun 2025
    Jellyfin – media player
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jellyfin/jellyfin is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

Jellyfin is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of Jellyfin is C#.


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