I have Plex but dove in and self hosted Jellyfin. As far as I can tell if I tag a genre or even an artist it does not modify the mp3 tag. Also found that even if you do tag a genre that you cannot make a dynamic playlist by the tag.
Even if you tag a genre and do Instant Mix it only picks from that genre so I’m not sure what tagging a genre actually does for Jellyfin. Seems like a useless field.
So the question is, what do folks use for making dynamic playlists? If not Jellyfin what tools work best to make a playlist to stream from server?
I’ve setup Navidrome for a friend, pretty sure its possible with it.
Tried navidrome this weekend. Dynamic playlist no. Manually have to select and add and then go to the next page and select and add. Seems worse the Jellyfin
So this kind of sucks but I can use Strawberry to generate a playlist, save it. Run some script-fu with
sort --random-sort playlist.m3u | set -e "s/\/fullpath\/Music\//./g" >/fullpath/Music//mynewplaylist.m3u
Jellyfin will see the playlist and import. I strip out the full path because I am mounting the Music directory to a Jellyfin docker container.
On a side note, Navidrome will also import the playlist after scanning for changes.