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leinelissen/jellyfin-audio-player
🎵 A gorgeous Jellyfin audio streaming app for iOS and Android
Fintunes is a React Native mobile app for streaming audio from a self-hosted Jellyfin server, available on iOS, Android, and F-Droid. It's the app you install when the official Jellyfin mobile client feels like an afterthought — this one is built specifically for music, not video. Target audience is self-hosters who run Jellyfin for their music library and want something that doesn't feel like a media-center port.
AirPlay and Chromecast support is implemented, which is the thing most audio apps on self-hosted platforms skip or ship broken. Offline downloads are included, not bolted on — you can actually use this without a connection. The translation coverage is genuinely impressive: 20+ languages managed through Weblate with community contributions, which is rare for a ~1400-star project. Fastlane is wired up for both iOS and Android release pipelines, so the build and publish process is repeatable, not a manual adventure.
62 forks and 1391 stars suggests more users than contributors — the bus factor is essentially one person (Lei Nelissen). React Native means you're carrying the full RN runtime and bridging overhead for an app that's fundamentally about smooth audio playback, where native would have been a better fit. There's no gapless playback mentioned anywhere in the README, which is the one thing that makes or breaks a music app for serious listeners. The Android Automotive manifest entry exists but isn't documented at all — unclear if it actually works or is just aspirational metadata.