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Jellyfin Playlist Membership — Easily browse Jellyfin Music song titles to add or remove from playlists

2026-08-222026-08-22 Danie
Screenshot of Jellyfin Playlist Membership interface showing a list of songs, artists, albums, and playlist tags in a dark-themed UI.

I wanted to quickly see which of my song titles are already in which playlists, and to quickly add them to other playlists or remove them etc. There is just no view that does this […]

BlogJellyfin, music, opensource, technology

25 years later, is it time for a new iPod?

2026-04-232026-04-23 Danie
Various colorful headphones paired with small square music players displaying different album covers on a white background.

“After being essentially flat for five years, Google searches for MP3 Player tripled since last fall. A Reddit group for fans of digital audio players is now attracting 90,000 visitors per week on average. And […]

Blogmusic, technology

Sony returns to vinyl with two new Bluetooth wireless decks

2026-01-232026-01-23 Danie
A sleek black turntable with a clear cover, set against a colorful abstract background. Ideal for vinyl enthusiasts.

“Sony is jumping back into the vinyl game for the first time since 2019 with the introduction of two new Bluetooth-enabled turntables. The PS-LX3BT and the PS-LX5BT make the analogue experience much more accessible by […]

Blogmusic, retro, technology

Finamp – an open source Jellyfin music client for mobile devices

2025-11-172025-11-17 Danie
Album cover of "A New Journey" by Celtic Woman, featuring a lit building facade and music player interface displaying "The Prayer."

Finamp is really beautifully designed and dedicated music player that connects to your existing Jellyfin music library. There are a number of improvement sin the beta version already, so I’d recommend you aim to use […]

BlogJellyfin, music, opensource, technology

Jelly Music App is an open source app that turns Jellyfin into a true Spotify alternative

2025-06-082025-06-08 Danie
A laptop screen displaying a music app with recently and frequently played tracks, on a brick wall background.

I wondered why this was not integrated into Jellyfin before realising it is a third party front-end app that bolts onto Jellyfin. So you have your existing Jellyfin server with the music on it, and […]

Blogmusic, opensource, selfhosting, technology

Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer

2025-06-012025-06-01 Danie
A music library interface displaying various album covers and tracks, featuring artists like The Black Keys and Joy Division.

Navidrome gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify! It handles very large music collections, will stream virtually any audio format available, and […]

Blogmusic, opensource, selfhosted, technology

Winamp Open Source Story Is Over: A lesson in what open source actually is

2024-10-21 Danie
Winamp's lightning logo with words WINAMP END OF STORY

In the last five months, Winamp, the iconic music player from the recent past, has been on quite a journey. It started with exciting news, which caused great enthusiasm, but sadly, things didn’t turn out […]

Blogmusic, opensource, technology

Free Your Music from the Cloud with Open-Source Volumio Pi

2024-08-312024-08-31 Danie
An open laptop with a blue colour body. On the screen is a picture from behind a person who is wearing headphones and working on a laptop. To the right of the laptop is a small cloud with a cable leading to the laptop, but the cable has been broken. Above are a pair of headphones and a blue speaker with two black speaker cones. To the left is a smartphone showing a music player on its screen.

Volumio is a free, open-source music player designed to unify all your music in one convenient place. In addition to offering its range of streaming boxes for purchase, Volumio also supports a variety of third-party […]

Blogmusic, opensource, raspberrypi, technology

You can Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Bluetooth Smart Speaker to Stream music via Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, and AirPlay

2024-08-162024-08-16 Danie
Purple colour background showing a black Raspberry Pi case with the raspberry symbol on the front. There are blue concentric circles appearing to radiate out from the device. On each side is a blue coloured Bluetooth logo.

The author mentions using a Balena Cloud account but I see there is also an openBalena option which is open source. From Balena’s website: “With openBalena, we want to give developers the ability to manage […]

Blogmusic, raspberrypi, streaming, technology

Lossless Audio Does Not Sound Better Than MP3 To Most People

2024-03-182024-03-18 Danie
Stack of vinyl records with a pair of wired headphones resting on top

Apple, Amazon, and Tidal offer “lossless audio,” claiming users can “hear the exact same thing” an artist created in the studio. However, it’s a myth that lossless audio objectively sounds better than MP3, and most […]

Blogmusic, myths, technology

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