So I used Jellyfin mostly for series and movies, so far work great. However I got a couple of audiobooks I want to listen to on my way to work and Jellyfin stop working each time I close my screen. So yeah…
What are you using for music ?
Update : People suggest Finamp, which I installed on my phone and tried to make it work on my server. After rebuilding my audiobook library to a music library, Finamp didn’t find anything. I’ve restarted, update, etc.
Work out the problem in naming my library « Musique », now Finamp seems to be able to open it
Thanks for all your help 🤟 you rock
Update 2 : Finamp don’t seems to remember where I’ve finish my last listening 🤣 all that for this. Great app however
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Audiobookshelf for audiobooks and Navidrome for music.
I recommend Navidrome for music. The only issue I have with Navidrome is that with a playlist that contains a large collection of music, bogs down to the point of being inoperable. So, I have to split the playlist into smaller chunks.
For music I ended up using navidrome, and, on Android symfonium, which is paid (single payment) but so good, better than anything I tried at least a year ago. On a computer you can use any open subsonic client since navidrome exposes that
Symfonium really is so good, solved a bunch of headaches I was having
Well besides the excellent options already mentioned by others, there is also Finamp, a Jellyfin music player.
Others have also mentioned Symfonium which can play audio from a Jellyfin server as well, not only from a subsonic one like Navidrome.
So far Finamp doesn’t seems to find my music folder, I’m restarting my server. Will see
See if you can get it going. I’ve found it to be a wonderful tool to listen to music.
And yeah audiobookshelf is king for audio books. You’d have to tinker with jellyfin a lot to get half the features. Better to use something that just works out the box
Finamp has been my goto for my music collection for several years. I know there are better solutions, but I’m not hardcore, I just want a simple app that streams my music from the server reliably.
The only thing that is a pain is getting all the tags and metadata correct, but there are lots of good apps to help with that also.
Jellyfin doesnt handle music quite as well as Navidrome does. Jellyfin is awesome for watchable media but it lacks a little on music. Navidrome handles artist metadata better. For clients, 100% Feishin on desktop, its just about perfect. On mobile, Castafiore or Resonus I think are two of the best. Finamp is great for a Jellyfin client on mobile but still it depends on the Jellyfin server which again doesnt handle metadata as well.
If you have an android phone, you’re welcome to use my app Stillshelf. It has two shells, one for audiobooks (audiobookshelf specifically) and the other for music (Navidrome).
BookPlayer is another one for iOS
For Music and streaming, specially for hi-res audio. SACD etc streaming, take a look at lyrion music server. The best solution of the myriad I tried self-hosting. Supports podcasts and audiobooks as well
While I use plexamp/finamp for music and jellyfin/Plex for video, I use audiobookshelf for my audio books and it works amazingly well.
Lidarr with Navidrome for me. Then I let everyone in the family use Plexamp with our Plex server for them. They don’t care about replaygain or any of that shit so it’s easier.
I started using Navidrom as suggested by someone in the group. I do not have audio books but it has a spot for them. If you want to get all fancy like you can use the MusicBrainz Picard for tagging stuff differently (or something like that I am really feeling the glue and sealant they used to put down the laminate in my place right now) but AudioMuse-AI does something to (again really feeling it).
Are you asking about music, or audiobooks specifically? I haven’t tinkered with audiobooks so am not sure if that’s handled differently…
For music I’ve been using Jellyfin as the server. On Android have tried a bunch of different apps, substreamer and Symfonium are the better apps. But I also like Fintunes, Jellify, and Resonus.
Fun fact: You can use most OpenSubsonic / Subsonic compatible apps with Jellyfin once you add the Subfin plugin (https://github.com/williamkray/subfin-plugin).
For Jellyfin, I prefer Manet.
Overall, though, I keep my music in Navidrome rather than Jellyfin.
If you’re on iOS, the app BookPlayer works well. When you choose to add files, you can choose from a media server, including both Jellyfin and AudiobookShelf.
