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Install using Homebrew
As a few other people, I don’t use an Apple Account to log into my Mac for several reasons and therefore can’t use the Mac App Store, which is currently the only supported installation method. Since the app seems really nice, it would be awesome if there was a way to install it using the popular Homebrew package manager. If this was possible, I would love to throw in a tip for the great work.
Feature Request: Siri & Shortcuts Integration
Please consider adding native Siri and Apple Shortcuts integration to Finer. It would be great if users could control music playback through Siri, for example: “Hey Siri, play my playlist on Finer.” “Hey Siri, play [song/album/artist].” “Hey Siri, pause Finer.” “Hey Siri, skip this song.” “Hey Siri, play my favorites.” Ideally, Finer could expose playback actions and playlist-related actions through the iOS Shortcuts app as well, allowing users to create custom automations and Siri commands. Since Finer is primarily a music-focused client, native Siri and Shortcuts support would make it feel much more integrated with the Apple ecosystem.
Master volume controls don't work when using AirPlay
When an AirPlay device other than the Mac's internal speakers is selected as the audio output, the main/master volume controls in Finer Music Player no longer have any effect. The only way to adjust the volume of the AirPlay device is to open the AirPlay menu and adjust it there. Expected behaviour: The master volume controls should continue to control the volume regardless of which output device is currently selected, including AirPlay devices. This would also be consistent with the behaviour in iTunes, where the main volume control can be used to adjust the volume of the active AirPlay output.
AirPlay device selection could be easier
When selecting an AirPlay output device, the device can currently only be selected by clicking the checkbox. It would be more convenient if clicking the device name or icon also toggled the selection, rather than requiring the user to precisely click the checkbox. This would also be consistent with the way device selection works in apps such as iTunes, where the device row itself can be used to make the selection. Suggested behaviour: Make the AirPlay device name/icon clickable so that clicking anywhere on the device row toggles that device's selection.
Feature Request: Separate Music and Video Playlists
Currently, when using Playlists in the music section of Finer, all Jellyfin playlists are displayed, including playlists that contain video content. This can make the music experience confusing. For example: Music playlists: Favorites, Pop, Workout, etc. Video playlists: Movies, TV Shows, Documentaries, etc. It would be great if Finer could filter playlists based on their Library / Media Type: In the Music section, only show playlists related to music/audio. Jellyfin 12.0 has improved its playlist data structure and added support for filtering playlists by library. It would be great if Finer could make use of these capabilities to provide a clearer separation between music and video playlists. This would make the music experience much cleaner and closer to that of a dedicated music player. Thank you!
Edit Queue
Hi, it would be great to be able to reorder tracks in the play next queue (not only via “play next” and “play last” buttons). Also the queue should persist when clicking on a song by mistake. Thanks for an almost perfect music app!
More choices of accent colours
Hi there! Could we please have an expanded list of accent colours? Unless I’m doing something wrong, all I can see at the moment are pink/purple, two reds, an orange, yellow, and green. Personally I’d really love a blue.
Carplay: Jump to letter
When you have a very large library on carplay, you have to scroll 4 at a time to reach a given item. For example, with 200 artists in your library, to reach the very last one, you would have to press the button 40 times, which takes far too long and is a bit dangerous while driving.
Bulk playlist do not load all songs
I'd like to report a bug with shuffle on large playlists. App version: 1.44.0 Jellyfin server version: 10.11.11 iOS version: 26.6 Steps to reproduce: Open a playlist with 400+ songs. Immediately tap Shuffle (or Shuffle All) without scrolling through the track list first. Only a subset of the tracks get included in the shuffle/playback — not the full playlist. Workaround I found: If I scroll all the way down through the entire track list first (so every track loads), then scroll back to the top and hit Shuffle, it works correctly and shuffles the full playlist. This suggests shuffle is only operating on whatever tracks have been paginated/loaded into memory at the time, rather than fetching the complete playlist first. I noticed the 1.40.0 changelog mentioned "Large playlists now load all tracks correctly" — this may be a regression of that fix, or a related edge case that wasn't fully covered. If I go to songs with 400+ songs and do shuffle all, it will not load all songs in the shuffle pool as well. Thanks for the great app otherwise — it's been my go-to Jellyfin client.
Carplay reloads Images in loop
I got a messy bug via carplay. The Images of Albums and Songs reload arround every 10 Seconds which leads to reload the page. Scrolling is impossible. But only in Finer App. When switching to widget screen everything is fin(er) … (-:
Feature Request: Direct access to the current playlist/queue
It would be useful to have a faster way to access the current playlist (queue) while music is playing. Currently, I have to first open the song details view and then access the queue from there. This adds an unnecessary step when I simply want to see or manage the songs that are currently queued. Suggested behaviour: Provide a direct, easily accessible way from the main player/mini player to open the current playlist/queue, without having to first open the song details view. This would make it much quicker to review, reorder, or manage the upcoming songs during playback.
macOS: Opening song/playlist details switches AirPlay output
I’ve noticed an issue with the macOS client when playing music via AirPlay. On the main screen, when I click the icon next to the mini player to view details about the currently playing song and the upcoming playlist, the audio output is automatically switched from my AirPlay device back to the Mac’s internal speakers. I then have to manually select my AirPlay target again to resume playback through the intended device. Expected behaviour: Opening the song and playlist details should not change the currently selected audio output. If AirPlay is active, the selected AirPlay device should remain the audio output when viewing these details.
Shuffle favorites button not working
The “shuffle favorites” button on the Home tab doesn’t do anything for some reason. Although weirdly enough, the one in the downloads tab works?! This has been an issue for a few months, but just got around to reporting it now😅
Multiple Library improvement
It would be nice to make switching Libraries not require going into the settings. Also to make it so that searching or instant mix only showed results from the active library
Possible DSD/DSF playback issue resulting in queue unsyncing
I’ve noticed on several occasions now that when I play from my server with transcoding off when a DSD/DSF file plays sometimes it just goes silent and I end up hitting next to skip it. Then I hear track B while the interface is showing track A as playing. If I double click on the “currently playing” in the queue, it just restarts Track B’s audio while still showing Track A playing. I have to double click on an upcoming track to get the display and playback back in sync, I don’t think next track fixes it, but I didn’t retry that today, but I seam to recall that using the next track button would then show Track B and play Track C. My library is a mix of older MP3 files, FLAC, DSD/DSF. My server is currently Jellyfin 10.11.11 and the client is 1.44.0 (127) onan M4 MacBook Air.
Apple TV Version - FLAC always transcoded and large albums crash.
Finer TV crashes when opening very large Jellyfin music album (748 tracks) I’m seeing a reproducible crash in Finer TV on Apple TV with one unusually large music album. The album is a custom compilation containing 748 FLAC tracks. When I select the album, the album screen begins to open, playback starts for roughly one second, and then Finer TV immediately exits back to the Apple TV home screen. The exact same album opens and plays correctly in Finer on iOS. I checked the files fairly thoroughly and the metadata looks clean: 748 FLAC files ALBUM: 80s Experience on all 748 ALBUMARTIST: Various Artists on all 748 DISCNUMBER: 1/1 on all 748 Track numbers: sequential 1–748 No duplicate track numbers No malformed/missing album, disc, or track tags No ffprobe errors All tracks contain the same 500×500 embedded cover image I also compared playback against a normal 22-track FLAC album that plays perfectly in Finer TV: Working albumCrashing album Audio FLAC FLAC Bit depth 16-bit 16-bit Sample rate 48 kHz 48 kHz Channels Stereo Stereo Artwork 500×500 500×500 Jellyfin delivery AAC 256 kb/s HLS AAC 256 kb/s HLS Jellyfin transcode completes Yes Yes Album size 22 tracks 748 tracks Result Works Finer TV crashes Jellyfin/FFmpeg continues transcoding the crashing album’s first track successfully even after Finer TV has exited, with no FFmpeg error, so this does not appear to be a server-side transcoding failure. This makes me suspect a large-album / large-playback-queue / memory issue in the tvOS client, possibly while Finer is constructing the 748-track album view or queue after playback begins. One separate observation: Finer TV currently appears to request AAC 256 kb/s / 44.1 kHz HLS transcoding even for 16-bit/48 kHz FLAC, although Jellyfin reports the files themselves as supporting Direct Play. That may be unrelated to the crash, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Happy to provide the Jellyfin FFmpeg logs, metadata audit, or test progressively smaller copies of the album if that would help reproduce it.
[iOS] Song search results click action
Can this be optional to play the song instead of going to an album? Often I’m searching for a song to just play it and I end up in an album trying to find it in the list of songs there.
[iOS] Artist click optional
Can this be optional? when you click on them to just play the song, it takes you to the Artist or Album page if you’re not careful on where you are clicking. At least in the list of songs in playlists and albums. Often I click to play the song and end up being in a different page
Bug report - library > artist > no music
Running finer on tvOS Apple 4kTV, am unable to access music via artist button in library. Selecting an artist from the list brings up a play and shuffle button but shows no music and launches nothing. Accessing music via albums works fine. Running jellyfin on a synology nas. Same app on iOS works ok just the tvOS version that’s problematic.