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:

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.