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Nerd out with self-hosted services and media on your spare computer!
@kyb
Couldn’t find a good e-reader app for kavita on ios without paying a bunch of $ so i just built one lol also added audiobookshelf integration to link audiobooks so you can follow along
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@thumbsup.eth
Just tried this app out called Coax. It’s another one of those TV guide style apps for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby.
This is the best one I’ve tried. You can change the channel and it’s quick, shows are playing on hourly schedules so it picks up at the relevant point in the episode, and if you open the app on your phone or ipad you get TV Guide style magazine interface that you can use to see what’s playing and change the channel.
Only downside is it’s not cheap. $4/month, $40/year, or $100/lifetime.
https://coaxtheapp.com/
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@thumbsup.eth
There are soooooo many Jellyfin apps for AppleTV now. It’s crazy.
I’m personally still completely served by Infuse, like supporting them, think the small annual fee is completely reasonable and use it across all my devices.
But, it’s nice to see more options!
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Jellyfin lost a few core devs to burnout. If anyone is looking for a project to contribute to, that one is one of the biggest and most important projects in the space right now.
So many people are, or want to, cut their subscriptions, and with Plex nearly quadrupling the price in the last 2 years, many people are choosing Jellyfin.
I’m a user and love Jellyfin, and open-source in general so I want to see it succeed. But I’m not a dev.
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@thumbsup.eth
Whoa. Bandcamp adding support for Subsonic was not on my 2026 bingo card 🤯
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/07/16/discover-improvements-and-subsonic-implementation/
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@thumbsup.eth
Current media stack, now that I’ve essentially exited from all mainstream subscriptions:
🎶Music
- Bandcamp & Subvert for buying
- Soulseek for aquiring freely
- Jellyfin for serving
- Manet for streaming on iOS/MacOS
- NTS for discovery
- YouTube Music for the find and play scenario
📺 TV
- Pocket for Seer for requesting
- Seer for managing requests
- Sonarr for routing requests
- qBittorrent for handling downloads
- Jellyfin for serving
- Infuse for streaming in iOS/MacOS/tvOS
- Social media for discovery
- YouTube/MeansTV for indie content
🎬 Movies
- Seer/Jellyfin/Infuse stack as above
- Criterion Channel for discovery/streaming
- Kanopy for library rentals
- Local cinemas for discovery, social, ideal watch experience
- Social media for discovery
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Hmmm… so I installed Navidrome to my server. It’s serving the exact same music as Jellyfin—basically just a way to have more app options.
So far though I don’t get it. Even though I’ve already run all my music through MusicBrainz and got the right metadata, Navidrome is showing the wrong metadata on many albums and artists. And there doesn’t seem to be a way to manually correct this.
Also, of the apps I’ve tested so far on iOS, Apreggi and Nautiline, both are good but they’re middle of the road compared to the Jellyfin apps I’ve tried.
For example, Manet and Discrete are better that Arpeggi and Nautiline, and Finer is very similar. I’ll keep playing with it but so far I’m not convinced.
Any recommendations?
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@kyb
wtf is this lol
anyone buying this instead of just hosting free with jellyfin would be insane
https://www.engadget.com/2176760/plexs-lifetime-subscription-cost-is-tripling-to-dollar750/
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