Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

Until recently I stored my media library in folders. A tedious way to manage a collection.

I set up Jellyfin on my main machine as a test. I enjoy the experience and want to migrate to a NAS, for better reachability in my network. I am a beginner when it comes to networks.

I currently use a single 20TB HDD (current usage 80%) and another 4TB HDD is around somewhere. I was wondering what my options and recommended solutions are. Should I get 1, 2, or more 20TB drives? I want some redundancy, but don't want to invest into too many drives.

Looking forward to any tips or resources to read up on. Thanks.

I use yt-dlp to download and the YT metadata plug-in for metadata. But idk how to actually organize the actual files?

• Do you create a separate library?
• Do you put it in the shows library?
• How do you separate videos by channel?
• Is there a way to auto-download artwork for each channel?

I've been streaming to my chromecast having jellyfin-androidtv 0.16.11 without much issues, but from a few days now everytime I try to reproduce any video, even those previously reproduced on the device, all I get is a dark screen with the controls, but nothing is reproduced.

I have updated my Jellyfin server to 10.9.7, but that does not seem to be the issue. I can reproduce media via web, via the media player (flatpak com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-media-player 1.11.1) and the android app 2.6.1,

On the logs I can see the following:

[17:09:56] [INF] [140] Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.WebSocketManager: WS 192.168.77.151 request
[17:10:16] [INF] [140] Emby.Server.Implementations.Session.SessionManager: Current/Max sessions for user franscsi: 2/0
[17:10:16] [INF] [140] Emby.Server.Implementations.Session.SessionManager: Creating new access token for user 95a57f2d-09f0-443b-9cae-b19d75b04e91
[17:10:20] [INF] [41] Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.WebSocketManager: WS 192.168.77.200 request
[17:10:20] [INF] [199] Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.WebSocketManager: WS 192.168.77.200 closed
[17:10:32] [INF] [42] Jellyfin.Api.Helpers.MediaInfoHelper: User policy for franscsi. EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
[17:10:32] [INF] [42] Jellyfin.Api.Helpers.MediaInfoHelper: User policy for franscsi. EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
[17:10:33] [INF] [42] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Adding playback tracker : 1cb0e216a28cd039102c4a0d62434ad40b12129a-95a57f2d09f0443b9caeb19d75b04e91-24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:10:33] [INF] [42] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.Data.PlaybackTracker: PlaybackTracker : Adding Start Event : 07/08/2024 17:10:33
[17:10:33] [INF] [42] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Creating StartPlaybackTimer Task
[17:10:33] [INF] [42] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : Entered
[17:10:33] [INF] [25] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Processing playback tracker : 1cb0e216a28cd039102c4a0d62434ad40b12129a-95a57f2d09f0443b9caeb19d75b04e91-24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: session.RemoteEndPoint : 192.168.77.200
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : event_playing_id     = 24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : event_user_id        = 95a57f2d09f0443b9caeb19d75b04e91
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : event_user_id_int    = 1
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : session_playing_id   = 24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : session_user_id      = 95a57f2d09f0443b9caeb19d75b04e91
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : play_method          = DirectPlay
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : e.ClientName         = Android TV
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : e.DeviceName         = SalonTV
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : ItemName             = The Seven Deadly Sins - s02e09 - Una promesa a una amada
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : ItemId               = 24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : ItemType             = Episode
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : All matches, playback registered
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Playback tracker found, adding playback info : 1cb0e216a28cd039102c4a0d62434ad40b12129a-95a57f2d09f0443b9caeb19d75b04e91-24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Saving playback tracking activity in DB
[17:10:53] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: StartPlaybackTimer : Exited
[17:10:54] [INF] [117] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Processing playback tracker : 1cb0e216a28cd039102c4a0d62434ad40b12129a-95a57f2d09f0443b9caeb19d75b04e91-24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:11:05] [INF] [25] Emby.Server.Implementations.Session.SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Android TV 0.16.11 playing Una promesa a una amada. Stopped at 0 ms
[17:11:05] [INF] [200] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Playback stop tracker found, processing stop : 1cb0e216a28cd039102c4a0d62434ad40b12129a-95a57f2d09f0443b9caeb19d75b04e91-24a1ef94dfc5ffa91064384597dc1477
[17:11:05] [INF] [200] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.Data.PlaybackTracker: PlaybackTracker : Adding Stop Event : 07/08/2024 17:11:05
[17:11:05] [INF] [200] Jellyfin.Plugin.PlaybackReporting.EventMonitorEntryPoint: Saving playback tracking activity in DB
[17:11:25] [INF] [25] Emby.Server.Implementations.Session.SessionWebSocketListener: Sending ForceKeepAlive message to 1 inactive WebSockets.
[17:11:37] [WRN] [212] Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.WebSocketConnection: WS 192.168.77.151 error receiving data: The remote party closed the WebSocket connection without completing the close handshake.
[17:11:37] [INF] [212] Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.WebSocketManager: WS 192.168.77.151 closed
[17:13:28] [WRN] [197] Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.WebSocketConnection: WS 192.168.77.200 error receiving data: The remote party closed the WebSocket connection without completing the close handshake.
[17:13:28] [INF] [197] Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.WebSocketManager: WS 192.168.77.200 closed

It makes no difference if I set the app to reach the server via IP or the reverse proxy.

I have looked for open issues but have found nothing related, so I don't know if this is just me or if it would be worth to open a issue.

Is anyone able to help me understand what could be going wrong with jellyfin when I added a new movie (I have a huge collection). Jellyfin isn’t recognizing a newly added movie. It not showing it at all

It's not really a well-kept secret that the search in Jellyfin needs a lot of work. It's slow, doesn't deal with typos and commas correctly and doesn't allow searching multiple fields at once.

I made a quick and dirty proxy to enable a proper full-text search in Jellyfin while the dev team is working on the EFCore migration. It's not perfect but it's much better than what Jellyfin currently provides.

If you are running Jellyfin inside of Docker and use a Traefik reverse proxy, check out the image/repo below.

If you know what you're doing (this is Lemmy after all), the proxy is a simple ASP.NET application and works with pretty much every reverse proxy once configured.

https://gitlab.com/DomiStyle/jellysearch

https://hub.docker.com/r/domistyle/jellysearch

If you tested with any Jellyfin client not in the README, feel free to let me know. If you used any other reverse proxy than Traefik, also let me know.

I am a bit late to the party in that I only today updated to the latest version. I now see that the intro skipper plugin from confused polar bear (or whathisname...) isn't working anymore. I guess that was bound to happen after the archiving of the repo.

Is there a working fork out there? I found a few threads here and there but the only forks I saw people mention seemed to also stop working after 10.9.3? Or did that get fixed?

All Sorting tv show options works on #JellyFin #Roku except sorting by date played. Tried it with Roku app ver2.0.7 and sideloaded 2.0.6dev. Jellyfin ver 10.9.6 and 10.9.7

To replicate, go into a Library and pull up the sorting options and choose date played. neither ascending or descending does anything. All the other sort options work.

Can anyone else replicate this with #JellyFinRoku

I've tested on two different Jellyfin setups.

Works in Android TV Jellyfin App and Web

cc: @jellyfin

I got a Synology NAS for my children’s photos and wanted my music to be available in our LAN as well. Jellyfin looked good and is open source so I gave it a try. I am very happy with Finamp as a mobile app to play and sync my library.

Where is this sourced from?

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-7

#Jellyfin Server 10.9.7
General Changes
Fix HDR detection for 4K Blu-Ray BDMVs [PR #12166], by @Bond-009
Log album name and id in normalization task [PR #11911], by @Bond-009
Try to add extracted lyrics during scanning [PR #12126], by @gnattu
Fix season backdrops [PR #12055], by @Shadowghost
Rewrite PlaylistItemsProvider as ILocalMetadataProvider [PR #12053], by @Shadowghost
Fix empty image folder removal for legacy locations [PR #12025], by @Shadowghost
Fix season handling [PR #12050], by @Shadowghost
Only cleanup children on specific exceptions [PR #12134], by @Shadowghost
Remove incomplete mediatype restriction from playlists [PR #12024], by @Shadowghost
Fix MicroDVD being recognized as DVDSUB subtitles [PR #12149], by @nyanmisaka
Fix Cleanup Task metadata saving [PR #12123], by @Shadowghost
Fix the Australian PG rating [PR #12043], by @oddstr13
Map IPv6 mapped IPv4 addresses back to IPv4 before running checks [PR #12094], by @Shadowghost
Do not override if is set [PR #12120], by @Shadowghost
Make m2ts extension case-insensitive [PR #12065], by @Rivenlalala
Overwrite supported codecs for livetv [PR #12017], by @gnattu
Check hearing impared flags with equality instead of contains [PR #12026], by @Bond-009
Fix local episode image thumb recognition [PR #12039], by @Shadowghost
Fix video embedded image detection [PR #12031], by @nyanmisaka
Fix replace all and respect metadata settings [PR #12028], by @Shadowghost
Fix Music Brainz release group query [PR #12073], by @Shadowghost
Fix mpeg-ts detection [PR #12046], by @gnattu
Do not fail user deletion if we have no playlist folder [PR #12037], by @Shadowghost

#Jellyfin Web 10.9.7
Security
Disable eval support in pdfjs [PR #5694], by @thornbill
Fix episode overview markdown render [PR #5680], by @Chaitanya-Shahare

General Changes
Fix loading hides too early [PR #5681], by @dmitrylyzo
HtmlVideoPlayer fix and cleanup [PR #5718], by @dmitrylyzo

I've been using Jellyfin for about a year. I've experienced many sudden issues with speed or connectivity, but they usually self-resolve over the course of a few days (I'd love to hear what that's about).

Since the last major update, I've had intermittent speed issues. My network is a bit weird, but it's what I have to go with for a while so bear with me...everything is wired cat7a as direct to the router as possible and broadcast exclusively through TailScale. My server (Win10) and another PC (Win11) are the combined shared storage, so I'm assuming one of the main points of failure between these 2 machines are to blame. In other words, the Win11 PC is acting as a shared network folder (where 2/3rd of my media is stored) AND a client (very inefficient I know, but it's worked up until recently).

Today, I tried listening to a lossless song and it was taking about a minute to load 1 second of music. I've never had speeds that slow before.

The server's hardware: -Intel i7-9700k @ 3.60GHz -RAM 16GB -NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Transcode settings enabled: -Hardware acceleration: Nvidia NVENC -H246 -MPEG2 -VC1 -VP8 -Enhanced NVDEC decoder -Hardware encoding

Task Manager for the server shows 95% (~10 Mbps) network usage to be to TailScale and Jellyfin. Network usage for the client is almost 0 Mbps. Memory usage for both machines is below 30%. CPU is less than 10% on both machines. Disk usage is even lower, 0% on both machines. The media in question is stored on HDD on the client-side machine (disk rated for >100MB/s read and write).

Without buying a new drive, NAS, or extra hardware, do you have any tips for troubleshooting my network to see if it's something I can fix? Did I mess any settings up?

Don't know if it's relevant, but I have a Pi-hole and both machines have Simplewall.

I download Let's Play series off of Youtube and sort them to watch through Jellyfin at a later time. I also download the thumbnails. On June 9 I upgraded the Jellyfin server from 10.9.1 to 10.9.6 and thumbnail importing broke somewhere inbetween those two versions.

As you can see, episode 25 which I downloaded on June 7 has its thumbnail while episode 26 which was downloaded June 12 does not. This happens for all videos I've added. I've double checked that the images are not corrupt and that the file names match.

[Edit]

I rolled back to 10.9.1, did a refresh and all the missing thumbnails were picked up immediately

anyone got Chromecast with Google TV 4K working with Jellyfin? it runs Android TV, gets the Jellyfin app and then stuff starts breaking.

It can't connect to the server intermittently, playback stutters, stops, breaks... the server reports the file is direct play and no issues.

Five other devices have no problems of any kind, only this fucker has spells constantly.

We have quite a budget collected over the last 5 years, and while we're really happy to see so many in the Jellyfin community contribute to us, we want to ask you to stop!

No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now.

We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthly expenses of only ~$600, that's over 40 months (3.3 years) of runway! So, we have plenty of money for the near future.

Thus, at this time, we want you to seriously consider donating to the authors of Clients you use, instead of (or in addition to) the main project. Client support is the hardest part of the Jellyfin ecosystem to keep going, and most of them are maintained by only a single person or very small team. With the API changes in 10.9.0 and the upcoming 10.10.0 releases, they're going to be very busy trying to keep up, and thus could really use your support in a way that the core project here doesn't right now.

So, if there's a client you use every day and that you love, consider finding it's author in our list of official clients, and sending them a little something instead (or too).

No, this doesn't violate our policy of "no paid development", because donations are just that - donations. We will still not honour bug bounties or similar, and still not use our collective finance here for paid development. So don't feel like you're doing something wrong, you're not!

I'll leave this notice up until we drop to ~1 year (12 months) of remaining runway, at which time we can re-evaluate where we're at.

Happy watching!

I personally would rather see then take some of the "extra" money and apportion it to suitable client projects themselves, but I can understand them not wanting to become financial administrators in that way.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-6

#Jellyfin Server 10.9.6
General Changes
Fix fallback artist when taglib fails [PR #11989], by @gnattu
Do not stop validation if folder was removed [PR #11959], by @Shadowghost
Use only 1 write connection/DB [PR #11986], by @Bond-009
Set ProductionLocations instead of Tags [PR #11984], by @Shadowghost

#Jellyfin Web 10.9.6
General Changes
Remove IMDb references [PR #5668], by @thornbill
Fix uneven slider value [PR #5667], by @dmitrylyzo

#Jellyfin 10.9.5. upgraders

If you have an issue with a locked database and media scanning failing, Set Dashboard -> General -> Performance -> Set "Parallel library scan tasks limit" and "Parallel image encoding limit" both to 1

That worked for me.

@jellyfin

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11980#issuecomment-2151752850

This Github thread also has a dev request for a Docker tester for a fix:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11980#issuecomment-2151454574

I love Jellyfin. I did think these recommendations were a bit funny however since they were so off.

Maybe the recommendations need to also look at the movies mpaa rating? Like something PG shouldn't be recommended after watching an R and especially not vice versa.

I guess it becomes complex quickly if you want to add other rating systems to the mix.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-5

#Jellyfin Server 10.9.5
General Changes
Fallback to local dir when saving to media dir fails [PR #11978], by @Shadowghost
Fix Library renaming [PR #11963], by @gnattu
Fix identify over NFO and replace all when NFO saving enabled [PR #11921], by @Shadowghost
Create readonly DB connections when possible [PR #11969], by @Bond-009
Fix local image saving [PR #11934], by @Shadowghost
Fix dateadded and movie NFO recognition [PR #11935], by @Shadowghost
Increase lyrics migration batch size to 5000 [PR #11943], by @Shadowghost
Export trailer URLs in new format [PR #11958], by @Shadowghost
Do not delete file locations for virtual episodes and seasons [PR #11954], by @Shadowghost
NextUp query respects Limit [PR #11956], by @cptn-x
Only set season path if season folder parsing was successful [PR #11920], by @Shadowghost
Check trailer distinction by URL [PR #11933], by @Shadowghost

#Jellyfin Web 10.9.5
Enhancements
Mark desktop Opera as AV1 and HEVC ready in fmp4 [PR #5662], by @gnattu
Prioritise HEVC over H264 in HLS TS streams on webOS [PR #5621], by @FintasticMan
Use display missing episodes setting in search [PR #5661], by @thornbill
Update activity table column widths [PR #5658], by @thornbill
General Changes
Fix live tv images being ignored [PR #5664], by @thornbill
Fixed being unable to properly long press on cards to multiselect on Firefox [PR #5660], by @ConnorS1110
Revert "Fix extra requests in standalone mode" [PR #5657], by @thornbill
Fix video OSD not fully hiding [PR #5653], by @dmitrylyzo
Fix background being invisible with theme videos [PR #5640], by @mihawk90

Is there a step by step guide to getting the xmltv from zap2it into jellyfin? This and remote access through the app are all I need to figure out before deleting my Plex account. Running Linux mint and using hdhomeruns, if that matters, since it wouldn't recognize the internal tuner in my htpc

I need some help. I've installed the Jellyfin container and it's running on my Synology NAS. It seems fine, but I can't get to the server through 192.168.x.x:8096. I get a typical "unable to connect."

What settings do I need to configure to connect to it? I've already allowed the port on my Windows laptop.

Thanks

It's extremely time-, storage-, and compute-expensive to generate images for an entire library before-hand. In my case it's doing all this work for tons of content that I might not even watch again.
I guess the idea is that there's no delay in the images being available as soon as the programme is started?
I'm not sure the trade-off is worth it.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-4

🏗️ Enhancements

Add app notification to notify about upcoming server requirement #3605, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

Force Quick Connect code to use LTR text direction #3553, by @nielsvanvelzen
Fix "Add server" button not visible when there are too many servers #3582, by @nielsvanvelzen
Support new intent in StartupActivity #3612, by @nielsvanvelzen
Remove refreshing of Live TV program data in player #3614, by @nielsvanvelzen