What can I do with a Jellyfin source?

Jellyfin is a free, open source software program which creates a server on a Mac, PC, NAS, or other device. The Jellyfin server can host music, videos, and other types of content, which you can access remotely from other computers and mobile devices on your LAN. For more information about Jellyfin, see the Jellyfin web site.

With Radiccio, you can access and listen to all of your Jellyfin music libraries. Each Jellyfin library is a separate item in the Radiccio source list. You can pick and choose which Jellyfin libraries you want to use, and you can add libraries from multiple different Jellyfin servers.

Radiccio only supports music-type libraries, and not other media types such as video.

Radiccio Plus! is required in order to add and use Jellyfin sources in Radiccio.

To learn which features are available with a Jellyfin source, see our feature availability guide.

I can’t connect to my Jellyfin server because Radiccio says it requires “a secure connection” (HTTPS)

If the server URL you have specified for your Jellyfin uses a domain name or subdomain, rather than an IP address, then HTTPS is required. This is in compliance with Apple’s platform security guidelines. Please consider configuring your Jellyfin server to serve HTTPS requests, or place your Jellyfin server behind a reverse proxy that supports HTTPS. Here is some Jellyfin documentation about it.

If the server URL is an IP address within the LAN range (10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, fc00::/7, fe80::/10, or localhost) then HTTPS is not required; you may use unencrypted HTTP. In that case, please be aware that your password and other sensitive data is transmitted in clear text over the LAN and can be easily intercepted by a malicious actor. You should use a unique, strong, random password, and secure your LAN and your Jellyfin server; further details on how to mitigate the security risks of plain HTTP are beyond the scope of our advice.

Note that, even if your domain name resolves to a LAN IP, it is not exempt from the HTTPS requirement. You must specify the LAN IP address instead. This due to the way Apple’s App Transport Security works.

Does Radiccio transcode content from Jellyfin?

No, Radiccio does not transcode.

Unsupported formats will not appear in Radiccio, and cannot be played. Please reference our article about supported formats.

My recently played items, play counts, last played date, etc. don’t update after listening to content from Jellyfin in Radiccio

Check the source settings and make sure “Report activity to Jellyfin server” is enabled. For privacy reasons, this is disabled by default.