Jellyfin stop working each time I close my screen.

screen of what? Laptop? Phone? Tablet?

it may just be a background permission problem

Lidarr with Navidrome for me. Then I let everyone in the family use Plexamp with our Plex server for them. They don’t care about replaygain or any of that shit so it’s easier.

Finamp has been my goto for my music collection for several years. I know there are better solutions, but I’m not hardcore, I just want a simple app that streams my music from the server reliably.

The only thing that is a pain is getting all the tags and metadata correct, but there are lots of good apps to help with that also.

I recommend Navidrome for music. The only issue I have with Navidrome is that with a playlist that contains a large collection of music, bogs down to the point of being inoperable. So, I have to split the playlist into smaller chunks.

If you’re on iOS, the app BookPlayer works well. When you choose to add files, you can choose from a media server, including both Jellyfin and AudiobookShelf.

For Jellyfin, I prefer Manet.

Overall, though, I keep my music in Navidrome rather than Jellyfin.

For music I ended up using navidrome, and, on Android symfonium, which is paid (single payment) but so good, better than anything I tried at least a year ago. On a computer you can use any open subsonic client since navidrome exposes that

If you have an android phone, you’re welcome to use my app Stillshelf. It has two shells, one for audiobooks (audiobookshelf specifically) and the other for music (Navidrome).

For Music and streaming, specially for hi-res audio. SACD etc streaming, take a look at lyrion music server. The best solution of the myriad I tried self-hosting. Supports podcasts and audiobooks as well

I dont use Jellyfin, but I heard of some of the things it did and jellyfin sounded like a step above due to its dedicated music app and similar songs for playlists.

I use Navidrome as the server and Symfonium for the mobile app. It is by far the best option I have ever used in the 20 years of setting up a personal server. I used Subsonic before this but it was abandoned years ago and Navidrome is a fork of it. The amount of continuous effort put in and new features that still get released is fantastic. Im always excited when i see a new version drop.

While I use plexamp/finamp for music and jellyfin/Plex for video, I use audiobookshelf for my audio books and it works amazingly well.

Are you asking about music, or audiobooks specifically? I haven’t tinkered with audiobooks so am not sure if that’s handled differently…

For music I’ve been using Jellyfin as the server. On Android have tried a bunch of different apps, substreamer and Symfonium are the better apps. But I also like Fintunes, Jellify, and Resonus.

Fun fact: You can use most OpenSubsonic / Subsonic compatible apps with Jellyfin once you add the Subfin plugin (https://github.com/williamkray/subfin-plugin).

BookPlayer is another one for iOS

audiobookshelf for audiobooks specifically, with Lissen as the android client.

For music, Navidrome with Tempus as android client and Feishin as desktop client.

I started using Navidrom as suggested by someone in the group. I do not have audio books but it has a spot for them. If you want to get all fancy like you can use the MusicBrainz Picard for tagging stuff differently (or something like that I am really feeling the glue and sealant they used to put down the laminate in my place right now) but AudioMuse-AI does something to (again really feeling it).