You should be able to get to the logs from the dashboard:

If it’s failing to hit the API, you will likely see hundreds or thousands of repeat messages in the logs.

Here is what I use for my Anime library:

So, the issue is that the series isn’t being identified correctly? That looks to be the case with The Slime Diaries. I have mine labeled “The Slime Diaries - That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime”. It gets identified correctly.

MP3Tag + MusicBrainz Picard. I use MP3Tag to set the ID3 tags and picard to move them into the folder structure I want.

It takes a couple hours to set everything up, but I can’t rely on Musicbrainz alone because my music has no metadata on Musicbrainz, so I set the tags myself.

I also use Jellyfin. Before being able to set custom tag delimiters, you had to ensure your music artists and album artists ID3 tags were correct. I believe it used a ‘;’ to separate multiple artists. Now with custom delimiters you can set your own. You may be able to try and fix things by setting ‘feat.’ as a custom tag.

Ultimately, I would recommend just using mp3tag and spending a few minutes setting up an action that replaces ‘feat.’ with a delimiter, such as a ‘|’. Run it through your current library and you should be good.

I haven’t tried it, but Metadata Remote is a web-based metadata editor.

Personally, I use MP3Tag with custom actions to set the tags, and MusicBrainz Picard to move files. My music isn’t on MusicBrainz, so I do the tagging myself, which usually doesn’t require too much effort from me.

I believe this typically happens if transcoding is needed and it can be “fixed” by enabling “Always burn in subtitle when transcoding” in the subtitles options.

Thanks! I thought most people don’t use navidrome if they have multiple users because they can’t create user-specific playlists. Is this not the case? What music features do you find limiting on Jellyfin? Also, how did you get your family to switch off music streaming for your navidrome server?

Could you please explain your use case for Music Assistant if you already have Jellyfin/Plex and Navidrome?

Yeah, I’ve started looking into ARC as that looks like what Jellyfin supports the best. Would you mind telling me what ARC you are using and how many simultaneous transcodes you’ve been able to handle? It looks like the Pro A-Series is the best.

You may be right going off this.

Also this is hilarious:

Looks like I’ll be looking into a dedicated gpu, and AMD isn’t recommended, so it’ll be Nvidia.

Unfortunately, Video Core Next isn’t listed in Jellyfin’s hardware acceleration list. I tried AMD iGPU passthrough with VA-API, but ran into issues. It seems I need to figure out:

1. How are people on Firefox not having to transcode? Do they just not use mkv’s or h265? Looking at the documentation, Firefox will need to do transcode, which lines up with what I’m seeing on my end.
2. I need to figure out how to get iGPU to work so transcoding doesn’t hurt the server so much.

Big Buck Bunny direct plays. It’s a .mp4 container and h264, so that likely has to do with it. My understanding was most people would be using h265 mkv files for content that’s 1080p or higher. It plays fine on Google Chrome and Edge, but not Firefox, so I’m a bit confused how people can be using Firefox and not have transcoding, unless they avoid h265 and mkv.

Everything I play has “The container is not supported”. I use mkv’s mostly. In this example, the audio codec is not supported as well.

Intel processor N100? Isn’t hardware acceleration for GPUs? Or am I misunderstanding.

Does it support playing mkv’s? I see container not supported and it transcodes.

What settings are you using under Playback -> Transcoding? Have you changed anything?

My server has a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and a single transcode about maxes it out on CPU usage. Even when playing a 1080p file. This can’t be normal if others are just “dealing” with transcodes, unless everyone is using hardware acceleration. I’m using Firefox as the client.

Edit: I did turn off Allow encoding in HEVC format and Allow encoding in AV1 format and things are a bit better. Still not sure how people avoid transcoding on Firefox though.

Do you use mpv shim? How do you avoid transcoding? In my opinion, that is why we can’t rely on the browser client and require a dedicated application.

1. LUFS is disabled
2. ID3 tags should be fine. This issue was present before I started manually tagging with MP3tag.
3. I might be wrong on the playback reporting not working, as I needed to wait for the entire track to finish for it to show in the plugin page. Testing with the official Jellyfin Desktop Client (Windows).

I went back and did some additional testing. I am unable to reproduce the issue on a completely fresh Windows Jellyfin install (10.3). I wiped all the directories before installing.

Though it took multiple attempts, the issue is still present on my main server (Linux Debian service) after adding the playback reporting plugin. I briefly added all the plugins and matched the settings and I can’t get the clean Windows server to break. I’ll have to dig deeper on the main server to see what may be causing this.

For me the issue wasn’t present at the start of 10.9, but it was very annoying for someone that would add around 15 new tracks a week.

At the bottom of this forum thread I posted some screenshots. This was a while ago, before I started dissecting my setup. Essentially, after adding a new track or album, there was about a 66% chance that it wouldn’t have the artist as you can see in the screenshots. After I started tagging my music and setting the covers to “Front cover” instead of putting them as separate jpg files, it wouldn’t pick up the cover for anything.

I spun up a fresh install of the latest version and when I removed that plugin, everything started getting the proper metadata. It was a reproducible issue.

This also happened with my home video library, where it wouldn’t get screen grabs for the thumbnails. Movies and TV series were fine though.

I’m not 100% sure on the next bit, but it also seemed like the playback reporting plugin wasn’t working at all even on the fresh server. After playing media and waiting, it would never get populated. So combine that with my previous issue, and the fact that it hasn’t had an update in a while, I thought it was just incompatible with the current version and cut my losses. I just wanted to get my server working back the way it was and it was an issue I’ve been dealing with for months, so I removed the plugin.

I haven’t done any recent testing though, and couldn’t find much discussion on if others are having this issue.

Of course this has nothing to do with what you’ve made. It’s not your fault the plugin isn’t working in my setup, and it isn’t the plugin’s fault Jellyfin is lacking the proper data for you to work with natively. Hopefully I can re-visit this issue and get it working in the future.