Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Master Jellyfin playlists: manual creation, smart auto-updating playlists via plugins, sharing with users, M3U import, and music playlist management. Everything about playlists in one guide.
One Docker Compose file. Four specialized media servers. Every type of content covered: movies and TV (Jellyfin), photos (Immich), comics and ebooks (Kavita), and music (Navidrome). This guide provides the complete stack with shared storage, unified reverse proxy, and monitoring. The definitive all-media self-hosted setup for 2026.
ChartHound is a self-hosted Docker application that combines music metadata tagging with real Billboard chart data, playlist creation pushed directly to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin, missing chart hit discovery via Prowlarr, album hunting through MusicBrainz, and missing movie/TV tracking via Radarr and Sonarr. Ships with 108,000+ Billboard chart entries pre-loaded.
Emby Wrapped brings the Spotify Wrapped experience to your Emby media server. See your total watch time, top shows, genre breakdowns, binge sessions, viewing personality, and shareable stat cards. Supports Tracearr, Seerr integration, and custom background music. Free, open source, Docker-ready.
Jellyfin handles music libraries alongside video - but getting the best experience requires the right folder structure, metadata plugins, mobile clients, and scrobbling setup. This complete guide covers everything from FLAC organization to Last.fm integration.
Jellyfin handles music alongside video. Navidrome is built exclusively for music. This comparison covers audio quality, Subsonic API, mobile clients, scrobbling, and which delivers the best self-hosted Spotify alternative.
Correct file naming is the foundation of a working Jellyfin library. This complete guide covers naming conventions for movies, TV shows, anime (absolute numbering), music, multi-version files, extras, specials, and collections - with copy-paste examples for every edge case and common mistakes to avoid.
