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> There is a crazy amount of bugs which I have no confidence will ever get fixed. Like what honestly I've been running one for years and have had nearly zero i

> There is a crazy amount of bugs which I have no confidence will ever get fixed. Like what honestly I've been running one for years and have had nearly zero issues.

thaumasiotes 2mo ago
My jellyfin installation chokes on audiobooks. There is a very noticeable pause between each track that it plays, despite the entire thing being queued. That pause is presumably also present when playing music, but no one notices because each song is its own track. Audiobook tracks split in places where a pause would never occur naturally. The second-most-annoying trait of Jellyfin in my experience is technically not a bug, but should definitely be fixed. It hardcodes expectations of how to determine what season and episode number to assign to files. And if you overwrite them, it will re-mangle them on scan unless you take precautions to stop it. As far as Jellyfin is concerned, your files must include a tag of the form S__E__ somewhere in the filename. Being located in a folder called "Season 2" with names like "11 - name of episode" won't work. Substrings like 第2集 won't work. Setting actual metadata tags on the file ( https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/FFmpeg_Metadata https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/FFmpeg_Metadata ) doesn't work; jellyfin ignores them. Let me provide a per-folder template for extracting season / episode information. Jellyfin already lets you prefer embedded artwork to whatever it finds on the internet. Why enforce hallucinated episode numbers when explicit ones are clearly present?
- tick_tock_tick 2mo ago
  I've never tried it for audiobooks frankly didn't even know it supported them. > Let me provide a per-folder template for extracting season / episode information. That's frankly not what I would call a bug and a bunch of work for near zero benefit. Not to be mean but why do you care? and if it really bothers you just use hardlinks let jellyfin see what it needs and you can have your pretty version for youself.
  - thaumasiotes 2mo ago
    > I've never tried it for audiobooks frankly didn't even know it supported them. It's a music player. How could it not support audiobooks? You think it will rate your tracks and refuse to play them if they're insufficiently "musical"?
    - ncallaway 2mo ago
      I think I have an idea of how it might not support audio books. What if audio books had the following issue: > There is a very noticeable pause between each track that it plays, despite the entire thing being queued. > That pause is presumably also present when playing music, but no one notices because each song is its own track. Audiobook tracks split in places where a pause would never occur naturally. It would almost be like it wasn't really built with audio books in mind, but was rather designed around music.
      - optionalsquid 2mo ago
        > It would almost be like it wasn't really built with audio books in mind, but was rather designed around music. If Jellyfin was designed around music, then I would expect it to support gap-less playback out of the box. Albums where each track seamlessly transitions into the next are not that rare
        ncallaway 2mo ago
        > If Jellyfin was designed around music I think what you said is a fair response to me, but I wanted to respond to this specific phrasing. I don't think Jellyfin was designed around music. I think music was an afterthought added after the fact, and shoehorned into the rest of the experience. And then I think audiobooks in jellyfin are basically an afterthought of an afterthought. (Again, I'm just responding to clarify if I accidentally conveyed a misconception about Jellyfin's music support)
    - viccis 2mo ago
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- jorams 2mo ago
  > As far as Jellyfin is concerned, your files must include a tag of the form S__E__ somewhere in the filename. Being located in a folder called "Season 2" with names like "11 - name of episode" won't work. I mean, I've got many like that and yes it does work. `s01/01 - Pilot.mkv` is recognized as season 1, episode 1, etc.
NegativeLatency 2mo ago
Could try submitting a patch?
petepete 2mo ago
I've used Jellyfin for years and my experience is currently incredibly smooth and works like a dream for the whole family. I only use it for movies and TV shows though, the live TV experience (with a HDHomeRun) was incredibly buggy and slow, and once you've tried it and failed, it seems like it's impossible to remove the remnants of it from your interface. The music and audiobook support never felt like it was as polished as TV/movies either, so I gave up on that. Now I use: * Jellyfin for films/TV shows * Channels for live TV * Navidrome for music * Audioookshelf for audiobooks and podcasts

> There is a crazy amount of bugs which I have no confidence will ever get fixed. Like what honestly I've been running one for years and have had nearly zero issues.

thaumasiotes 2mo ago

My jellyfin installation chokes on audiobooks. There is a very noticeable pause between each track that it plays, despite the entire thing being queued. That pause is presumably also present when playing music, but no one notices because each song is its own track. Audiobook tracks split in places where a pause would never occur naturally. The second-most-annoying trait of Jellyfin in my experience is technically not a bug, but should definitely be fixed. It hardcodes expectations of how to determine what season and episode number to assign to files. And if you overwrite them, it will re-mangle them on scan unless you take precautions to stop it. As far as Jellyfin is concerned, your files must include a tag of the form S__E__ somewhere in the filename. Being located in a folder called "Season 2" with names like "11 - name of episode" won't work. Substrings like 第2集 won't work. Setting actual metadata tags on the file ( https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/FFmpeg_Metadata https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/FFmpeg_Metadata ) doesn't work; jellyfin ignores them. Let me provide a per-folder template for extracting season / episode information. Jellyfin already lets you prefer embedded artwork to whatever it finds on the internet. Why enforce hallucinated episode numbers when explicit ones are clearly present?

tick_tock_tick 2mo ago
I've never tried it for audiobooks frankly didn't even know it supported them. > Let me provide a per-folder template for extracting season / episode information. That's frankly not what I would call a bug and a bunch of work for near zero benefit. Not to be mean but why do you care? and if it really bothers you just use hardlinks let jellyfin see what it needs and you can have your pretty version for youself.
- thaumasiotes 2mo ago
  > I've never tried it for audiobooks frankly didn't even know it supported them. It's a music player. How could it not support audiobooks? You think it will rate your tracks and refuse to play them if they're insufficiently "musical"?
  - ncallaway 2mo ago
    I think I have an idea of how it might not support audio books. What if audio books had the following issue: > There is a very noticeable pause between each track that it plays, despite the entire thing being queued. > That pause is presumably also present when playing music, but no one notices because each song is its own track. Audiobook tracks split in places where a pause would never occur naturally. It would almost be like it wasn't really built with audio books in mind, but was rather designed around music.
    - optionalsquid 2mo ago
      > It would almost be like it wasn't really built with audio books in mind, but was rather designed around music. If Jellyfin was designed around music, then I would expect it to support gap-less playback out of the box. Albums where each track seamlessly transitions into the next are not that rare
      - ncallaway 2mo ago
        > If Jellyfin was designed around music I think what you said is a fair response to me, but I wanted to respond to this specific phrasing. I don't think Jellyfin was designed around music. I think music was an afterthought added after the fact, and shoehorned into the rest of the experience. And then I think audiobooks in jellyfin are basically an afterthought of an afterthought. (Again, I'm just responding to clarify if I accidentally conveyed a misconception about Jellyfin's music support)
  - viccis 2mo ago
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jorams 2mo ago
> As far as Jellyfin is concerned, your files must include a tag of the form S__E__ somewhere in the filename. Being located in a folder called "Season 2" with names like "11 - name of episode" won't work. I mean, I've got many like that and yes it does work. `s01/01 - Pilot.mkv` is recognized as season 1, episode 1, etc.

NegativeLatency 2mo ago

Could try submitting a patch?

petepete 2mo ago

I've used Jellyfin for years and my experience is currently incredibly smooth and works like a dream for the whole family. I only use it for movies and TV shows though, the live TV experience (with a HDHomeRun) was incredibly buggy and slow, and once you've tried it and failed, it seems like it's impossible to remove the remnants of it from your interface. The music and audiobook support never felt like it was as polished as TV/movies either, so I gave up on that. Now I use: * Jellyfin for films/TV shows * Channels for live TV * Navidrome for music * Audioookshelf for audiobooks and podcasts