Hi everyone! We're incredibly excited to announce that we're launching a beta of Finamp's redesign today. This is a major update to the app, and we're looking for feedback from anyone willing to tr...
Hi everyone! We’re incredibly excited to announce that we’re launching a beta of Finamp’s redesign today. This is a major update to the app, and we’re looking for feedback from anyone willing to try it out before we roll it out to everyone.
The beta is a work-in-progress, there are several new features already, but we will be adding more features over time.
How quick and useful is the interface compared to the regular Jellyfin app when playing music?
I currently use the regular client, since I already have it installed for video content.
If you use iOS (I can’t speak for Android) it actually uses the system music apis, so things like the dynamic island, airplay, transmission of Metadata information over Bluetooth to players (name, song, etc), and background play control all work with Finamp where they don’t with the regular jellyfin app.
Curious if this will fix my one issue I have with Finamp.
I have some quite large playlists I’d like to listen on shuffle. Finamp doesn’t do that well at all. (It seems it only shuffles what it has cached or something, as it seems to shuffle “only” the first 100 or so songs. of 3000+)
Hey, is this still an issue in the beta? There are reports from others that have problems with their large playlists because it takes too long to queue them up, so I don’t think the shuffle is limited to a certain number of items.
Or are you talking about the round shuffle button on the songs/tracks tab?
Hi, Finamp dev here. I think there might be a “limit 100” on accident in there somewhere, since that is our default “page size”, so the number of items we will fetch from the server at once.
If you don’t mind, you could open an issue on GitHub or hop into the discord server so I can better keep track of it!
There is an open discussion on GitHub for people just like you ^^
But discord is just much less work to manage, and is a communications platform that I use all the time.
This is just the beta, it’s not like all of the development and discussionn is happening over discord now. But when I have time to develop and need some user feedback to ask about their problems or opinions, this is just much faster to iterate on.
In the end, we do this for free, and it takes up our time, so anything we can do to be more productive does help!
Yes, convenience is the main reason people like you use discord. But there are many reasons against using it and I am sure you know all of them, so no need for a discussion.
Just wanted to highlight: you are part of the discord problem.
My issue with using jellyfin for audio probably isn’t fixable by any external app, I need to be able to use the folder structure, with some content it’s the only reasonable way to sort it
Until then I’ll still be using plexamp for my audiodramas
I mean as far as I know it is possible to browse the folders directly in Jellyfin, at least using the web app. There was an option for it in the settings I think. But implementing that for Finamp might be a bit harder, sorry
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Very exciting news ! I am a daily user of Finamp and I love it.
How quick and useful is the interface compared to the regular Jellyfin app when playing music? I currently use the regular client, since I already have it installed for video content.
If you use iOS (I can’t speak for Android) it actually uses the system music apis, so things like the dynamic island, airplay, transmission of Metadata information over Bluetooth to players (name, song, etc), and background play control all work with Finamp where they don’t with the regular jellyfin app.
Curious if this will fix my one issue I have with Finamp.
I have some quite large playlists I’d like to listen on shuffle. Finamp doesn’t do that well at all. (It seems it only shuffles what it has cached or something, as it seems to shuffle “only” the first 100 or so songs. of 3000+)
My issue is that I use a self signed CA, there is some progress in that area, but last time I checked not something usable on my device
Yeah ideally Flutter (the framework we’re using to develop the app) would support this by default, but it seems like we’ll have to jerryrig something…
Hey, is this still an issue in the beta? There are reports from others that have problems with their large playlists because it takes too long to queue them up, so I don’t think the shuffle is limited to a certain number of items.
Or are you talking about the round shuffle button on the songs/tracks tab?
Hi, Finamp dev here. I think there might be a “limit 100” on accident in there somewhere, since that is our default “page size”, so the number of items we will fetch from the server at once.
If you don’t mind, you could open an issue on GitHub or hop into the discord server so I can better keep track of it!
“Hop on the discord server”… Boooo. What happened to the good old Forum. Searchable and all.
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There is an open discussion on GitHub for people just like you ^^
But discord is just much less work to manage, and is a communications platform that I use all the time.
This is just the beta, it’s not like all of the development and discussionn is happening over discord now. But when I have time to develop and need some user feedback to ask about their problems or opinions, this is just much faster to iterate on.
In the end, we do this for free, and it takes up our time, so anything we can do to be more productive does help!
Yes, convenience is the main reason people like you use discord. But there are many reasons against using it and I am sure you know all of them, so no need for a discussion.
Just wanted to highlight: you are part of the discord problem.
Thanks! :D
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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Is this Winamp for Finns or a financial amplification device?
This is Jellyfins version of Plex’ Plexamp. A music player for your self-hosted media library
An AMP for Jellyfin
My issue with using jellyfin for audio probably isn’t fixable by any external app, I need to be able to use the folder structure, with some content it’s the only reasonable way to sort it
Until then I’ll still be using plexamp for my audiodramas
Integrating Music, Video (non-movie, non-TV), Audiobooks, E-books, etc, etc, into a single UI is so problematic.
Each app I use is better at part of it.
I like Jellyfin, but it struggles as much as others. I use Mediamonkey for phone sync of Podcasts, music, and some video.
Hats off to all the devs trying to herd these cats.
I mean as far as I know it is possible to browse the folders directly in Jellyfin, at least using the web app. There was an option for it in the settings I think. But implementing that for Finamp might be a bit harder, sorry
Iirc I can browse folders in jellyfin for videos not for audio, I have no idea why they are different but they are
Interesting. Yeah Jellyfin’s inner workings are complicated and strange…