The front door
Four ways to reach the server from outside, and the two settings that decide whether the proxy is trusted.
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Before you buy a GPU
Most stutters are a client asking for something the server cannot send. The dashboard tells you which, and the fix is often smaller than a graphics card.
The finishing pass: plugins, metadata and subtitles
The scan gets a library working. What makes it feel owned is the poster, the match, and knowing which two plugins are worth the restart.
Jellyfin in an evening
What Jellyfin does that a streaming subscription does not, how a household actually uses it, and the install that gets a library playing tonight. The first part of a series.
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Jellyfin 12.2 is a maintenance release with one very sensible refusal
Fifty-one changelog entries: Dolby Vision profile 8 moves to the hvc1 tag, malformed FLAC stops hanging the library, EPUB covers work on Windows, and a missing database now stops the server cold.
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Jellyfin 12.1 is a bugfix release, and several fixes land on the 12.0 upgrade
Jellyfin 12.1 is 47 fixes six days after 12.0, and several of them touch the migration and the pre-migration backup.
Jellyfin 12.0: modern on the surface, rebuilt underneath
Jellyfin 12.0 makes its Modern layout the default and rebuilds how playlists and collections are stored — and it rewrites your database on first boot, so the backup is the only way back.
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insteadswap
What to run instead of Plex, and what it costs.