Share helpful tips for Jellyfin users that also use Symfonium
I’ll kick things off with one that is obvious in retrospect, but it took months for me to realize: Editing playlists in Symfonium can be tricky, especially the longer playlists. Instead, use a jellyfin desktop clients, and then you can just import the updated playlist to Symfonium.
Personally I’m fond of Feishin, but I think this capability is present in all jellyfin clients
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Another hack is using the smartlist plugin on my server. Among many features, it can create playlists based on folder path.
My unsolicited workflow:
- Create folder paths for specific themes (ie
electro/ funk/ and DJ Sets/)
- Set up Smart Playlist with playlists that watch these folder paths
- Install Shortwave to listen to online radio (and auto-record songs).
- Edit the Shortwave config so that it saves files in my Jellyfin music folder. (NFS/SMB +
.automountfile if Jellyfin is on a separate server)
- Now, when you tell Shortwave you want to save a song, it will push it to your Jellyfin music folder automatically
- Here I manually move the song to the relevant folder ie
funk/
- Jellyfin updates the playlist automatically and Symfonium updates the playlist automatically. No need for any further intervention.