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Release target is tentatively mid April according to here..
Wtf, look at the size of this comment section. Where are you guys hiding out in all the other topics?
The Lemmy Jellyfin Venn Diagram is just a circle.
We don’t care about other topics, the only thing that gets us going in the morning is personal media libraries and software to manage and play them!
Personal media library? You mean… personal Linux distros collection?
Idk about the rest of these jabronies, but I didn’t even know jellyfin had its own comm until this appeared in my feed. But I’m gonna subscribe now that I know of it!
jabronies
You keep using that word and… it’s awesome.
I wasn’t actually sure I was still on Lemmy when I saw this news. But it was an instant subscribe once I found out.
Hello from “All”!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked up some feature or low-priority bug only to find the answer is “there’s a PR for this that will be added in 10.9”, commented like a year ago, glad to see the future plan is more frequent but smaller feature releases!
Is there a place where I can see a list of features set to release with 10.9?
I was going to ask OP to link to the thread, but it looks like he hasn’t actually posted anything after that: https://mastodon.social/@hetisniels/112044929265622327
Yeah not yet.
Looks like there’s several closed Pull Requests with the tag of “release highlight” which is an easy place to start
Ooh, thanks. So big things for us users seem to be transcoding improvements and audio normalisation. And a bunch of security stuff that’s important for people that run this on the public internet.
Jellyscrub being integrated and anything towards skipping intro/outro’s looks like great additions too.
I recently installed Jellyscrub via plugin and it spent a long time building BIF files. Any chance those will be seamlessly picked up by the new version if I upgrade via Docker container?
I can’t help you with an answer, but I’m hoping it does! As you say, it takes a long time to generate
Didn’t know that was a thing. I really need to look at that plugin repository.
The little fix I contributed to is on there :) https://blog.rayberger.org/fixing-jellyfin-ios-audiobook-streaming
I got a bunch of commits in around searching and similarity. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abradbeattie+is%3Amerged, https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abradbeattie+is%3Amerged.
Heck that I love to see it! How was it getting into the code base for the first time?
Getting the code running, easy. Getting the pull requests moved forward, a lot more frustrating than expected.
https://lemmy.ca/post/6420647 summarizes my feelings on the latter.
You can probably check the commits since 10.8
I gather not yet but you could follow Niels on Mastodon for updates.
Just donated to Jellyfin. Very happy with the work they do. Love you guys!
Same! Been using them a while, great app.
I didn’t think they took donations?
They strictly use the donations to cover their infrastructure cost (website, docs, metadata API fees). They don’t use donations to fund development, to avoid becoming for-profit at all cost.
And since they are currently sitting at ~$20k that they have yet to spend, they aren’t pushing the donation options at all.
What they much rather need is actual contributors, that can help with development.
Gotcha, I think that’s where I was getting confused
uBlock Origin doesn’t accept donations.
Pretty much all foss projects have donations with the exception of ublock origin
And Scribus +___+ (And Open Camera.)
Thank you, I couldn’t find it before
Congratulations to the Jellyfin Team!!!
Thanks for all of your hard work.
I’ve been dabbling with jellyfin lately. It doesn’t seem to like my mp3 organization, which Plex had no issues with. I generally use artist/album/songs, though there are exceptions that seem to be tripping up jellyfin. For example, I split compilation cds into the appropriate artist’s directory (so, artist/song), and it doesn’t seem to know how to deal with that. There are also a few weird things floating around, but those might be due to bad id3 tags in the mp3s.
I know there are some issues with mp3 tags in some songs. For example, my wife’s *NSync or N-Sync (or whatever the hell they are, I don’t actually care) mp3s seem to have the artist name in different formats, so that’s not helping matters at all.
Also, in fairness, jellyfin kind of got a bum start on my system - I installed it and started it, but I didn’t have enough space on /var for everything, so the system started having problems. To get it running, I stopped jellyfin and just deleted the metadata directory (getting the server running in general was much more important than getting jellyfin working). I’ve since allocated more space to /var, and I had jellyfin reread all of the libraries, which seems to have been mostly successful. (It looks like I had the same issue with Plex, because I had moved its metadata /var directory to the media drive, but I forgot for jellyfin.)
I do hope the new version includes some features that are just personal preference, like for example I’d prefer the “artist” view to be first in the Music section, not albums. And I’d like to sort albums within the artist by year, not name (I suppose I could go in and give it the year as the sort key, but I don’t want to have to do that for every artist). These are personal preferences, of course, not breaking bugs.
Overall it seems like a decent replacement for Plex. I watched an episode of the Simpsons using it last night on our FireTV, and it worked fine.
I follow what lidarr does. Worked great so far on my cases of adding custom tracks I didnt want to submit to musicbrainz.
You probably know about it but there’s a great program for Windows (I’m not sure about other platforms) called MP3TAG which handles (re)tagging like nothing else
I didn’t, but I use Linux anyway. Musicbrainz.org offers a program designed to do that, too. I’m a little hesitant to run it on my collection of mp3s without some smaller tests first though.
I’ve used it on my collection, album for album. It usually works great with the autodetect-function, but it gets some albums horribly wrong (or not at all), so I am glad I did it piece by piece. Took a long time, but now I just need to do it every once in a while when I add something to the collection.
LOL the “horribly wrong” is the part that worries me. We already have good mp3 tags for most of the collection, so I don’t want to make things worse. Thanks for the info, though.
It seems jellyfin is confused by songs that have two artists, like duets. It can handle it at the song level, but those “merged” artists appear (as a separate artist) at the artist level too.
And I finally put my finger on what’s wrong with the default view: It says “albums” but collection albums show separately under each artist that has a song on that album. That makes sense for the album-artist view, but not albums. Albums should combine those, in my thinking at least.
LOL the “horribly wrong” is the part that worries me. We already have good mp3 tags for most of the collection, so I don’t want to make things worse. Thanks for the info, though.
Most commonly the issue is that it guesses the wrong album release, and puts any extra tracks in a separate compilation album. The songs are still tagged right, but the album is wrong. The worst problem I’ve encountered is when all songs were tagged completely wrong (different names etc.). Happened once or twice for me, but enough to not want to do everything in one go.
It seems jellyfin is confused by songs that have two artists, like duets. It can handle it at the song level, but those “merged” artists appear (as a separate artist) at the artist level too.
I don’t have this issue. I separate the artists with a semicolon, so it is displayed “Artist 1, Artist 2” with each artist being clickable to go into their individual artist page. But I think you could actually tag ‘artist’ as “Artist 1 & Artist 2” and ‘artists’ as “Artist 1; Artist 2”, and it will show up correctly, i.e. displayed as “Artist 1 & Artist 2”, but shown in the artist overview separately as “Artist 1” and “Artist 2”. I think…
I don’t have this issue. I separate the artists with a semicolon, so it is displayed “Artist 1, Artist 2” with each artist being clickable to go into their individual artist page. But I think you could actually tag ‘artist’ as “Artist 1 & Artist 2” and ‘artists’ as “Artist 1; Artist 2”, and it will show up correctly, i.e. displayed as “Artist 1 & Artist 2”, but shown in the artist overview separately as “Artist 1” and “Artist 2”. I think…
Yeah, going in and fixing them individually seems to clean it up (I probably should check that more closely)…but we have a LOT of duets, it seems.
Anyone have a good source that explains how to setup and find safe media. Computer literacy is not my strong point.
Buy Blurays and rip them to your machine. From there copy them into Jellyfin.
You will need a Bluray reader, Handbrake and MakeMKV
In this order:
Do not use AV1 or at least don’t use it as of now as it isn’t supported my most devices. I think there is exactly one phone that supports it as of now
Eh, Chromecast has AV1 and so do some smart TVs already. If that is your primary watching platform, encode away in AV1 and get an Arc A380 for the rest. It will also massively decrease encoding times.
I know the nVidia Shield doesn’t have it, and I’m not replacing that any time soon.
Untrue, all my devices support av1 at this point, so that’s only your mileage.
I am happy with av1 and its awesome space savings over h264.
Over h264 sure, but h265? Hardly worth it for me.
In my experience the saving over h265 is still consistent and given that hardware h265 is less common that av1 on new devices, from h264 there is no need to go h265 but directly to av1 is better if you need to do the job.
Keep h264 otherwise.
I’m not sure what devices you have but if they were made before 2023 you likely are using software decoding.
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@PM_Your_Nudes_Please
@Bluefalcon
A lot of newer Android-TV-Settop-Boxes are ready for AV1, for example products from Orbsmart.de like my Orbsmart S87L.
On that box is Kodi preinstalled and you can install everything from android-stores, also the Jellybin-client.
Don’t forget: Jellybin is a very good open-source-software, but a client-server-system. So you need Hardware for the server-software.
You also need hardware behind the client, for it being able to do hardware decoding. Unless you want the server to constantly transcode everything you watch, for all phones and PC clients…
*Jellyfin
My point is that H264 is well supported everywhere so I personally am in no hurry to switch. Non of my devices support AV1 so it is a waste of my time for the most part.
What’s worse is when I first started a bunch of people recommended AV1 which lead to Jellyfin not working.
Also of you can stand the quality check out DVDs in charity shops or second hand online (Ebay etc). (And give away / resell after you made a “backup”.)
To keep a copy of the media in Jellyfin you need to have a physical copy with the server. You also probably shouldn’t share it with friends unless you are living together.
You may need to keep the physical copy for it to be legal or moral according to your own ethics but from a purely technical standpoint there is absolutely no need.
My technical needs are heavily dictated by legal obligations
Yeah, fair, but depending on where you are you’re already in illegal territory if you’re circumventing DRM on the discs (e. g. Germany, I think).
(And how likely is it that I 1. get busted for pirating when not torrenting/downloading and 2. will make the copyright trolls believe me that I actually legally bought this movie at a charity shop five years ago? Has that ever hapenend?)
What do you mean by “safe media”?
Where I don’t have to throw my PC out afterwards due to virus and malware.
The good old Arr Stack is worth looking into.
Radarr (movies), Sonarr (TV), Prowlarr (for finding things), Bazarr (if you’re in the subtitles gang, but most newer rips already contain it), VPN (to keep out nosey lawyers).
Only the VPN costs money, and it may be optional depending on where you are.
First Second update:
That’s the 2nd post. He started with the update regarding the restart command.
Oh, that’s cool (but trick play is not a very good for that, wth).
trick play is not a very good for that
What do you mean? Trick play is just the name of the functionality. There are several methods/formats to actually implement it, such as HLS, DASH, and BIF.
In this case, the functionality was added to the server API using the HLS format.
Argh, I wanted to say it’s not a very good name for that. I did not really understand what that’s supposed to mean (English is not my first language) but now I think it might be those books you can flip through very fast and it’ll be a very simple animation? That would make sense.