I downloaded a few things thinking I could watch offline. Turns out you can’t. Does the app have a way to remove the downloaded content?
I don’t know which versions are available on the play store, but f-droid only had the current official release, which is buggy and missing a lot. I had to go sideload the beta from GitHub and it has every feature I need including the one you’re after.Oops, thought you were asking about Finamp for just music.
I use vlc, it scans the entire device and shows all downloaded media, after I watch something I just delete it using vlc.
Findroid works if you want it all integrated but I haven’t tried it yet
If you want a jellyfin app that actually manages the downloads, letting you both watch and delete the downloads in the same app, try Findroid.
Like already explained, the web-app based clients just download the media files. You can obviously watch them using any media player that way, and delete the files when you’re done, but it makes things a bit clunky.
For music, there’s Finamp (FOSS) and Symfonium (Paid, but really good, and with active dev).
Streamyfin is nice as well, and is open source
Cross-platform, too! Neat.
Now I have a new client to recommend to my dad. Findroid is android only. (As the name suggests)
AFAIK it simply downloads the files to your Download folder. Delete them from your file manager.
Thanks. I didn’t expect it to be in downloads, but sure enough, there it was. Lol
Yes, OP you also need an external player like VLC to play them. Maybe that’s why you say you couldn’t play them?
I’d recommend Findroid as alternative app for Jellyfin on Android, it let’s you download and watch content from within the app. Doesn’t download the images of content though, so it is not perfect either.
Yeah, install findroid and downloaded some stuff. I will try it out on this trip. Thanks
Just switch off WiFi and test it then, learned it myself the hard way! For findroid you will then need to manually switch the app into “offline” mode for it to work.
Testing it is how I found out it didn’t work. Lol. Got findroid and it worked great on the plane.
Got any recommendations for a music player?
I’ve paid for symfonium and love it tbh, it works really well, has great customizability and the offlining of favourited albums is so so nice. It has an internal download cache, but it can also export files to your downloads folder the way jellyfin does at the moment. My only gripe is that it’s not FOSS.
I am not using Jellyfin much for music, but Finamp worked relatively OK. However make sure you get the beta, the latest stable version is way behind and they started some major redesign in the beta program.
I recommend Findroid as well! You can download and play within the app, much closer to a netflix experience.
