TL;DR:

Digital Hackathon for Finamp, an open source Jellyfin music client.
From today until April 6th, so two weekends and the week in-between. Looking for designers and developers, as well as anyone else interested in contributing! Check out the Finamplify GitHub project and our Discord server for more info!

Hey everyone!
Today's the day, Finamp's first-ever Hackathon - called "Finamplify" - is starting! Let's have a week of hacking together on your favorite open source music client for Jellyfin :D

This is a digital event happening on Finamp's GitHub repository and our beta Discord server.

Check out our previous post for some background information, including the Whys and Whats: https://lemmy.ml/post/27593730

How To Get Started

If you want to contribute, that's awesome! Here's how to do it:

1. Take a look at the Finamplify GitHub project, that's the central place for keeping track of the Hackathon
2. Check out the issues we've pre-selected and categorized. Feel free to pick an issue from that list, and then comment on that issue so we can assign it to you!
3. Fill out the contribution form so we can send you some free stickers at the end of the Hackathon for your successful contribution: https://app.formbricks.com/s/cm8tajvx13912s001l9it719v
4. Chime in on our Discord server for chatting, discussing, and asking questions!

We hope you'll have a lot of fun, and are looking forward to seeing you there!

Timeline

The Hackathon will consist of three sections: The two power phases during the weekends, and an iteration phase during the week in-between.

First Power Phase:

This kicks of initial contributions, and should see the first finished implementations.

Start: Saturday, March 29th, around 10.30am UTC
End: Monday, March 31st, during the early morning hours :P

Iteration Phase:

During this phase, more complex implementations can be worked on, PRs can be reviewed, and designs can be discussed.

Start: Monday, March 31st, around 10.30am UTC
End: Saturday, April 5th, during the early morning hours

Second Power Phase:

This final phase is meant to finish up any remaining implementations and tie up any loose ends.

Start: Saturday, April 5th, around 10.30am UTC
End: Sunday, April 6th, during the early morning hours

Let me know if you have any further questions!
Looking forward to seeing you there, happy hacking, and thank you for using Finamp!

- Chaphasilor

TL;DR:

Digital Hackathon for Finamp, an open source Jellyfin music client.
Saturday, 2025-03-29 to Sunday, 2025-04-06, so two weekends and the week in-between. Looking for designers and developers, as well as anyone else interested in contributing! Checkout the GitHub repository and our Discord server for more info when the time comes!

Hey everyone!
I'm thrilled to announce that Finamp, an open source Jellyfin music player, will have its first Hackathon starting next week, starting on Saturday, March 29th and continuing until Sunday, April 6th!
Get ready for over a week of improvements to your favorite open source music client for Jellyfin :D

This is a digital event happening on Finamp's GitHub repository and our beta Discord server.

Why Should I Care?

In case you don't know, Finamp is a music client for Jellyfin, that has been around for a few years at this point.
It is meant to be an app that is tailor-made for Jellyfin (and all its quirks), and elevates the listening experience beyond what the official Jellyfin apps can offer.
While Finamp is used and loved by many Jellyfin users, it's far from perfect. Companies like Plex or Spotify are able to create more polished and feature-rich applications because they have more money and developers to throw at the problem.
But we, as Jellyfin users and members of the open source and self-hosted communities, believe that this shouldn't stop us from trying to build the best free & open source apps we can, together with other members of the community!

That's why we need your help to improve the quality and capabilities of Finamp, to be one day on-par or even better than the likes of Plexamp or Spotify!

What Is the Goal of this Hackathon?

As part of our efforts to modernize Finamp and make it more pleasant to use, we started redesigning and re-implementing Finamp in back 2023, and started releasing beta versions of the redesigned version early last year.
Many important elements of the app have already been overhauled, most noticeably the player screen & queue, and the download system. The redesign didn't just change the looks of these elements, but also improved their features and usability over the old version.

But there's still a lot to do!
We planned this Hackathon to give our redesign efforts a much-needed boost, so that we can finally redesign the remaining parts of the app and then release the redesign as part of the stable version.
So that's the focus - re-designing & re-implementing existing parts of the app, as well as implementing new features to go along with it.

How Can I Contribute?

Glad you asked :P
Since there's a lot to do, there are many possibilities to help out!
Here's a list of things we would appreciate your help with:

• Are you a designer? We need people creating mockups of the new design, based on existing functionality and feature request!
• Are you a developer? We need people implementing the mockups, enhancing existing functionality, or adding new features!
• Are you good at organizing things? We could use some help with keeping on top of things during the hackathon and beyond!
• Are you a user? While we don't exactly need more bug reports, you could help by going through existing bugs to see if you can figure out how to reliably reproduce them.

For the designers, we have a Figma file consisting of more-or-less up-to-date mockups of implemented and planned screens. But since we essentially just need mockups in the form of static images, you can work with any design too you want!

For the developers, while Finamp uses the Flutter framework (which is based on the Dart programming language), any frontend experience should be enough to contribute, since the syntax is very straight-forward and the style system is pretty self-explanatory.
Even backend devs can help out here, since there are some features that are mostly independent of the UI, like our playback, queueing, and download system.

What's the Timeline?

The Hackathon will consist of three sections: The two power phases during the weekends, and an iteration phase during the week in-between.

First Power Phase:

This kicks of initial contributions, and should see the first finished implementations.

Start: Saturday, March 29th, around 10.30am UTC
End: Monday, March 31st, during the early morning hours :P

Iteration Phase:

During this phase, more complex implementations can be worked on, PRs can be reviewed, and designs can be discussed.

Start: Monday, March 31st, around 10.30am UTC
End: Saturday, April 5th, during the early morning hours

Second Power Phase:

This final phase is meant to finish up any remaining implementations and tie up any loose ends.

Start: Saturday, April 5th, around 10.30am UTC
End: Sunday, April 6th, during the early morning hours

"Frequently Asked" Questions

Why 9 days?

We know not everyone can dedicate an entire weekend to an online hackathon, so we decided to spread things out instead!
This also allows us to properly discuss any changes instead of rushing anything.

Where is this happening?

This is an online-only, digital Hackathon. Contributions and formal discussion will happen on Finamp's GitHub repository, while community chat, tech support, and informal discussion will happen on our beta Discord server.

How can I attend?

Just show up on Finamp's GitHub repository and/or our beta Discord server sometime during the hackathon!
The only thing we require is for you to have fun, engage with the community, and hopefully contribute something to Finamp!

What are the rewards?

Yes! We're giving out free Finamp stickers to everyone who contributes during the hackathon time frame. What constitutes a contribution can't be defined explicitly, and we can't give out stickers for just fixing a typo or adding a translation. But if you redesign a screen (design or implementation), add a new feature, or fix a bug, we'll be happy to send some stickers your way!

Keep in mind that Finamp is an open source project, and is a free app. Finamp itself doesn't make any money, so we're funding the stickers ourself, using mostly GitHub donations :)

Let me know if you have any further questions!
We will make another post with more details on how you can get involved on the first day of the Hackathon, so stay tuned for that!

- Chaphasilor

This marks the first release of the app since 2022! Read more about the update and obstacles we overcame to make this happen in the blog post.

https://jellyfin.org/posts/ios-v1.6.0

I created this guide on how to install Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet on your server. Enjoy.

I have a series in jellyfin. The first seasons are dubbed german, the later seasons are only in the original dub. Is it possible to force two separate entries for this season (e.g. "Example Series (German)" - containing Seasons 1-3 and "Example Series (English)" containing Seasons 4-6)? Problem is, that not all users that have access to this library are fluent in English and I want to avoid that they think this series is available in full only to switch the language halfway through...

Or is there another way to do/indicate something like this?

I know I could just tell them, but will they remember that in a few months?

Swiftfin doesn't do audio for some reason and VLC doesn't reliably recognize UPmP.

Hello all!

This is my first time doing anything like this so I’m sure it’s some basic technical thing I’m missing but I’m having trouble with this.

I have my server running on Linux mint and I can get that to work just fine but no matter what I do I cannot connect to the server from the Jellyfin app or swiftfin what’s the most likely cause of this and how can I fix it?

To all the music geeks out there: I'm currently putting together a small statistics tool for #beets. What would be interesting stats about your perfectly curated music library?

https://beets.io/

#Jellyfin #SelfHosted
@jellyfin @selfhosted @beets

Hi folks,

I'm in the process of setting up Jellyfin. The basic setup is easy enough (I'm using docker compose), but I can't make it recognize tv shows properly. The metadata lookup works for movies, though.

For tv shows, it returns a (seemingly) random tv show and assigns it to all tv shows in my library. So I end up with many instances of the same show in the UI. If I change the metadata source from TheMovieDB to TheTVDB I end up with a different show, but with the same result: Every show in my library is assigned to the same invalid metadata.

I can select shows and manually identify it, but that's really cumbersome for a big libary.

If also tried the same with Emby and I don't get the same error there.

I've also tried to but a tvshow.nfo file into folders to help the lookup, but it doesn't seem to be recognized at all.

I know I can put metadata on the folder name of a series (like the show id of themoviedb), but I really don't want to do this, as I have another mediaserver server (Kodi) the same library to my Smart-TV. It would mess up that libary - also: Emby seems to be able to do the lookup correctly, so why wouldn't Jellyfin?

I know about this page: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/

My library is mostly structured this way:

Show_name/
Show_name/S01 
Show_name/S01/S01E01.mkv

(I don't think the "S01" part is the problem, I tried to rename to "Season 1" without success)

Any ideas what could be the problem here?

Using the android client app and I tried to connect to my new server (first time setup). When I tap "Choose server" I can see the server name and local IP (192.168.0.5). When I tap on it, it won't connect. What am I probably doing wrong?

Edit: the app uses a default address, although it identifies the name of the server I set up. I checked the WiFi settings on the machine and the server is 192.168.1.60. I used this and it worked immediately.

Thanks for the help! I was able to eliminate some things, and learned some important things.

Official forum announcement

Jellyfin Server

General Changes

• Fix subtitle and attachment extraction when input path contains quotes [PR #12575], by @dmitrylyzo
• Use filtered codecs to build appliedConditions [PR #12562], by @nyanmisaka
• Fix alt version name generation [PR #12558], by @Bond-009
• Create and use FormattingStreamWriter [PR #12550], by @Bond-009
• Fix CodecProfiles and video encoder profiles [PR #12521], by @nyanmisaka
• Don't apply chapter image settings to music [PR #12531], by @gnattu

Jellyfin Web

Enhancements

• Show slideshow controls when touched [PR #6016], by @tcely
• Hide studios for collections and playlists [PR #6012], by @thornbill
• Fix overly strict dovi level testing [PR #5983], by @nyanmisaka
• Apply Maximum Allowed Audio Channels to DirectPlay [PR #5972], by @dmitrylyzo

General Changes

• Fix autocast when already connected [PR #6013], by @thornbill
• Fix touch events in experimental video player [PR #6015], by @thornbill
• Fix network mode for localhost server [PR #6011], by @thornbill
• Fix create library crashing when no path specified [PR #6010], by @jwaresoft
• Fix play all & shuffle not working on genres [PR #5949], by @viown

So I am finally going to get around to setting up a dedicated media server with network storage and all that. I have previously read up and decided on this Beelink Mini S12 PC. But I have heard about lots of problems with some of the latest intel chips and such. Does that affect this mini pc?

And since it has been nearly a year, is that still the best idea for a media server? I mostly want it to be quite since it is always on, and I don't want to hear it down the hall in my bedroom at night like my current windows pc. But outside of that, whatever works best. It seems pretty inexpensive compared to what I was expecting.

Hey guys, I was using a webos client until recently and I used to adjust the subtitles when they were slightly out of sync using the settings on the video player. Now I'm using a Android Tv client (new tv) and there is no settings icon to do that or to look at the video properties. On my phone the icon is there and on the web version on my laptop too. Did I mess with some menu settings or something or there is no settings on the Android Tv app?

I'm using the Android tv app of Jellyfin. I usually have to select the subtitles twice. The first time I select subtitles, it will take a long time and eventually there will be an error message and no subtitles. If I then go in and select the same subtitles again, it usually works immediately.

Is this a known problem and is there anything I can do to remedy the problem?

Hi! I'm currently making Etoile, music central native Jellyfin client for the Apple suite of devices (everything but Vision Pro). It needs a few more features before I'm comfortable releasing it. so feel free to follow me on mastodon @jules@pony.social for updates:)

iOS:

• Play songs from albums
• Recently played
• Playback reporting
• Time synced lyrics!!
• Search
• Queue and add to queue from album and search
• Caching songs and albums
• Now Playing (control center, lock screen control, AirPlay support)
• Full player popup

watchOS:

• Play / pause (even when playing on phone!)
• Play songs from albums
• Caching songs and albums
• Pulls login info from phone

tvOS:

• Play songs from albums
• Recently played
• Time synced lyrics
• Caching songs and albums
• Video showcasing all of that

Screenshots! iOS watchOS

Get it now here

Thank you!

Official forum announcement

Jellyfin Server

General Changes

• Include AVIF extension for support images [PR #12415], by @ikelos
• Apply all codec conditions [PR #12499], by @dmitrylyzo
• NextUp query respects Limit [PR #11956], by @cptn-x
• Set Content-Disposition header to attachment for image endpoints [PR #12490], by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix bitstream filter not applied to videos in TS container [PR #12493], by @nyanmisaka
• Fix the record series button missing on many programs (port of #12398) [PR #12481], by @Bond-009
• Don't force non-virtual when all episodes in season are isMissing=true [PR #12425], by @scampower3
• Check attachment path for null before use [PR #12443], by @gnattu
• Fix SA1201 issue [PR #12390], by @justinkb

Jellyfin Web

General Changes

• Fix undefined serverId in Person card [PR #5817], by @viown
• Fix Safari volume control [PR #5920], by @gnattu
• Fix safari volume being reset when track changed [PR #5923], by @gnattu
• Fix incorrect initial play icon in remote control section [PR #5915], by @viown
• Use navigate instead of resolver [PR #5823], by @ilteoood
• Fix "Download All" for Safari [PR #5910], by @jchuong
• Add no-cache attribute for fetch requests to /system/info/public to prevent stale server info [PR #5730], by @Doxterpepper
• Fix swipe gestures on android for book reader [PR #5843], by @viown
• Fix autoCast race condition [PR #5898], by @thornbill

This is maybe a little paranoid but... i have a jellyfin server that i let some family members use. one of them intends to use an app for apple tv, which i think is swiftfin or something like that. i am a bit skeptical about smart-TVs and the data they phone home with, so i was wondering if there is any chance that i could be compromised due to the linux isos i host on jellyfin due to some sneaky smart-TV stuff?

I have sequential downloads enabled on my torrent client, I have a download speed that is fast enough that the ETA for the full download of the media is shorter than the duration of the media itself, and I can watch it in IINA or VLC, but, unfortunately Jellyfin doesn't recognise any new media in my designated library folders until a decent amount of time AFTER the entire file is downloaded and has it's correct extension.

Is there some way to watch as one downloads using Jellyfin?

Excuse the basic questions but I'm not having much luck web searching for answers. I have the server running on my laptop which is also where the content itself if and I have an android phone with the mobile client installed via f-droid.

I can't seem to cast to chromecast with Jellyfin from either the laptop itself, or the android client app. The client app lists streaming to chromecast specifically as one of it's features in the description on f-droid.

Just trying out Jellyfin for the first time. I'm also just trying out media server software for the first time, having downloaded Emby 2 weeks ago so forgive if I'm misunderstanding some fundamental concepts.

I have a series on my hard drive that has been incorrectly identified as something else, the Title is wrong, the posters are wrong, the casting information is wrong and I'd hazard a guess the subs are probably wrong too. That's fine, Emby actually got this particular series wrong as well. The difference here though, is I can't figure out what to do about it. I've seen lots of forum posts saying you can enter an imdb ID number but this is a problem because that only seems to be possible for individual episodes, not the whole series, and in any case, it doesn't appear to DO anything when I apply to any one given episode. More frustrating still, each episode in the series has somehow taken the name of the series as its episode name so they all have the same name and you can't tell which episode is which.

How do I remove the incorrect identificaiton and replace it with a manually selected correct ID? Also, importantly, will supplying a correct IMDB number or whatever else it is I need to do to correct this misidentification, cause the correct subs to be downloaded?

Hi everyone! I've been using Jellyfin (and Findroid) for quite some time and I really love it. I'm constantly contemplating how incredible it is to be able to self-host such a cool project!

The little itch I want to scratch now is having a client for laptops with an offline mode feature, similar to what Findroid offers for android. Does anyone know of such a client? It would be awesome for train/plane trips to no longer have to manually copy the files over for offline playing!