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Hi everyone! We're incredibly excited to announce that we're launching a beta of Finamp's redesign today. This is a major update to the app, and we're looking for feedback from anyone willing to try it out before we roll it out to everyone.

The beta is a work-in-progress, there are several new features already, but we will be adding more features over time.

Looks very nice!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is this Winamp for Finns or a financial amplification device?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

This is Jellyfins version of Plex' Plexamp. A music player for your self-hosted media library

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Financial amplification - in fact my bank account is no longer being drained monthly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

An AMP for Jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Curious if this will fix my one issue I have with Finamp.

I have some quite large playlists I'd like to listen on shuffle. Finamp doesn't do that well at all. (It seems it only shuffles what it has cached or something, as it seems to shuffle "only" the first 100 or so songs. of 3000+)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hi, Finamp dev here. I think there might be a "limit 100" on accident in there somewhere, since that is our default "page size", so the number of items we will fetch from the server at once.
If you don't mind, you could open an issue on GitHub or hop into the discord server so I can better keep track of it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Hop on the discord server".. Boooo. What happened to the good old Forum. Searchable and all.

Follow me on instagram for more great criticism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is an open discussion on GitHub for people just like you ^^

But discord is just much less work to manage, and is a communications platform that I use all the time.
This is just the beta, it's not like all of the development and discussionn is happening over discord now. But when I have time to develop and need some user feedback to ask about their problems or opinions, this is just much faster to iterate on.

In the end, we do this for free, and it takes up our time, so anything we can do to be more productive does help!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, convenience is the main reason people like you use discord. But there are many reasons against using it and I am sure you know all of them, so no need for a discussion.

Just wanted to highlight: you are part of the discord problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hey, is this still an issue in the beta? There are reports from others that have problems with their large playlists because it takes too long to queue them up, so I don't think the shuffle is limited to a certain number of items.
Or are you talking about the round shuffle button on the songs/tracks tab?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My issue is that I use a self signed CA, there is some progress in that area, but last time I checked not something usable on my device

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah ideally Flutter (the framework we're using to develop the app) would support this by default, but it seems like we'll have to jerryrig something...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does importing the ca not help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That wasn't a thing last time I tried. Is that possible now? Or do you mean for my android system? I have the CA installed on my system of course, but iirc the flutter library they use does not use the system store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I did mean your android system. I'm not on jellyfin, yet, so not familliar with uts quirks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The regular jellyfin app works with the system can store. This is only about finamp.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Very exciting news ! I am a daily user of Finamp and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How quick and useful is the interface compared to the regular Jellyfin app when playing music? I currently use the regular client, since I already have it installed for video content.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you use iOS (I can't speak for Android) it actually uses the system music apis, so things like the dynamic island, airplay, transmission of Metadata information over Bluetooth to players (name, song, etc), and background play control all work with Finamp where they don't with the regular jellyfin app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Finamp looks like what you would expect from a music player app. It's very straight forward to browse you songs by Artists and Albums. It's easy to make playlists and queue songs ans Albums. Lastly, you can download songs and albums locally and play them offline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Okay. I can already do that in the normal client app. But this client looks really nice and I'm glad it's a thing. :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Very neat! Been looking for a good alternative for Spotify for a while, I hope this can completely cure me 🙌

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Thanks for posting this. I didn't know it existed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Thank you for sharing this! I hadn't heard of this before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
Plex Brand of media server package
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption

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