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Comment by 2OEH8eoCRo0

7 days ago

How large is your music library? Jellyfin is unusable with my large music library and I was forced to use Navidrome.

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chneu  7 days ago

Okay here's what I did to finally update Jellyfin to work with my 300,000+ size flac library.

I copied my 10.X whatever Jellyfin 3 times. So I basically setup 3 identical Jellyfin instances. I then upgraded each of them to the latest version. 2 of them upgraded but had horrible performance. The third one finally works the way it should. I have no idea why that worked but after seeing tons of comments that were basically "Idk mine just works" or "idk mine just sucks" it seemed worth doing.

So, maybe try that.

To be clear I didn't copy the libraries. Just the Jellyfin docker data.

Their new database is just bad.

robwayne  7 days ago

How large are we talking here?

I'm currently sitting at 35k~ tracks, primarily FLAC with some 320kbps mp3 sprinkled in. I also use Jellyfin for anime and have a LOT of shows on there. Haven't noticed any issues yet, so I'm curious where your tipping point was.

  • chneu  7 days ago

    Jellyfin after the 10.X update changed their database. This introduced a major performance issue with SOME large music libraries. There doesn't seem to be a hard set of criteria besides "some large music libraries suffer from bad performance degradation". I finally managed to upgrade after just brute forcing it and trying several times. It finally just worked.

cdrnsf  6 days ago

I use Navidrome for music as well — I'd say it's about 800 artists and thousands of albums. I've also built a rather convoluted workflow around it that meets my needs.