IIRC, Emby requires a login to function even with just local content. And data is sent to them on what you do on your local system. No thanks.
And I meant Plex, not Kodi. Kodi doesn't (AFAIK) spy on their users, but Plex does. My apologies.
And I meant Plex, not Kodi. Kodi doesn't (AFAIK) spy on their users, but Plex does. My apologies.
Thanks for the suggestion. I did try jellyfin (for playing my 18,000+ audio tracks) and when I tried to shuffle them all (that's my use case) it crashed, every. single. time.
I'm sure it's fabulous for many folks, but it doesn't meet my needs.
Perhaps I will.
And (as you already knew -- and now I do too!) you are correct. The Jellyfin server no longer crashes when trying to shuffle all my tracks (~20,000).
And when I view my music by "Songs", I can shuffle all the tracks without issue while using the web interface via Firefox. Hooray! I never got that far with jellyfin before.
Unfortunately, the Roku jellyfin client (again, this is my use case) doesn't have a view by "songs" option. As such, in order to shuffle all my tracks, I needed use a playlist (an actual m3u playlist rather than a jellyfin playlist -- as I don't really want to have to individually click on 20,000 tracks and add them to a jellyfin playlist -- which might or might not work anyway).
Which isn't a big deal, as I already used such playlists elsewhere. But attempting to play or shuffle such a playlist fails. Not just on the Roku client, but on Firefox as well.
So I guess I'm either going to have to wait for jellyfin clients to support such large m3u playlists, or until the Roku client has a "Songs" view.
Again, thanks for your heads up. It was much appreciated!
The Roku jellyfin client (not the server, it seems pretty stable) reliably crashes after ten minutes or so of attempting to load the same playlist.
Interestingly, jellyfin on Android appears to have the same behavior as the Firefox/web interface, although I didn't wait an hour to see if that was the case.
That said, Finamp[0] (also available on FDroid, FTW!) on Android loads up the playlist just fine and starts playing almost immediately. Which makes me wish Android was my use case. :(
All in all, it was rather disappointing. That said, I still do appreciate your suggestion.
Finamp is a great app, it's well developed and works far better than the official Jellyfin app/site imo.
Jellyfin on android is pretty much just a webview, so it should behave similar to your browser.
I agree! It worked so nicely that I'm going to expose jellyfin to the internet so I can access my full music collection via my phone (currently I have about 1/3 of it -- which was all that I could comfortably fit on my phone's storage).
Thanks again for the suggestions -- it opened up (with jellyfin/finamp) a new use case for me!