How star rating works (server, client, file)

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Hi All,

I use Jellyfin to store my music and Symfonium as a client. To my knowledge:

  1. Jellyfin does not handle star rating
  2. Star ratings can either be in the server DB, or directly in the music file

What happens if I assign stars to songs on Symfonium while Jellyfin cannot handle those stars? Would it get added to the file itself? What happens if the server supports star rating?

My reason is: I’m considering a server move to Navidrome (that handles star rating and which seems more performant to manage music), and I wonder if assigning stars via Symfonium would update my files, making them ready to be migrated to Navidrome with their stars :sweat_smile:

Thank you!

PS: If anyone has a tip to bulk assign stars to files, I’m very interested too :folded_hands:

Switch to new jellyfin-server. What gets transferred?
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Nothing updates your files and it’s better for you to not have issues :slight_smile:

It’s in the db, you can backup to a json file and try to script the migration of the data.

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Thanks @Tolriq !

In the DB, I assume you mean the server DB? Or the client one, Symfonium?

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Synfonium since Jellyfin does not support it.

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hi folks,

I use Symfonium on my Android phone to play music. at the moment it is using my jellyfin server. im looking to migrate to navidrome. Now that i know symfonium stores the metadata from jellyfin server and injests it into the symfonium database. Is it possible, using the symfonium db to migrate the metadata from the jellfin setup to the new navidrome setup.

I looked for this on the forum but couldn’t find anything that helps me down this path. Any thoughts on my next steps?

BTW thanks a million for this amazing software Tolriq.

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There’s already a couple of thread about that you export the user data from Symfonium in Json and you do a script to migrate.

With AI it’s probably easy now.

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Thanks for the prompt reply. I may have used the wrong terminology for my search. I will try again and report back . I may have enough knowledge to use LLM’s on this journey.