Glad to hear, the ones doing the work now will get more recognition and the one leaving can do more of what they want. Hopefully they had a good handoff.

Thank you.

We should celebrate these kinds of changes. Like its great that they've already achieved so much and not just that, but left behind a group of folks just as committed in the future of the project.

I always feel that posterity of your work beyond your own contribution is the real achievement and a sign of humility.

Slightly better "this happened weeks ago but we're just now getting around to updating everyone".

“Effective immediately.” = Hostile, forceful.

“Effective yesterday.” = Mysterious, invites questions, makes you sound like a time-traveler.

I'm just here for the violence.

What is o7?

Sounds like the rest of the team will continue so it should be similar? Seems like they just didn’t have the time anymore due to other life commitments.

The linked post is fairly positive. I'm not too worried - we're probably gonna see an uptick in user friendliness.

Jellyfin is written in C#.

I never understood why they don't support the subsonic protocol.

I mean... you might as well ask why the DLNA plugin has been broken for years. Or why they don't add a custom HTTP header to the client app so people can lock access in their reverse proxy.

As usual it's a mix of not enough developer manpower and "I don't use that so it's not a priority" i.e. the whimsies of FOSS.

What phone do you have that the jellyfin app and the jellyamp app are unavailable?

Edit: Also you can support subsonic with jellysub acting as a go-between. Considering its not a music-first solution, I'm not surprised that it doesn't support subsonic natively, personally.

Edit 2: Its unmaintained but works as of the last time I tried it out, fwiw. It isnt exactly a complex codebase either if something got tripped up by minor changes.

Jelllyfin + Subfin (https://github.com/williamkray/subfin-plugin) works well, I've been using it with the OpenSubsonic Android apps listed in https://www.navidrome.org/apps/?platform=android&api=opensubsonic without issue. e.g. Substreamer, Tempus, Airdrome, etc. all work fine with Jellyfin + Subfin.

I'm guessing you're not on Android or iOS since Jellyfin has apps on those platforms - but you should be able to use any Subsonic/OpenSubsonic app once set up with the plugin.

So to answer your question: OpenSubsonic is only for music, and Jellyfin does much more than music. Adopting OpenSubsonic would mean maintaining two APIs, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

Meanwhile Navidrome is adding Jellyfin API compatibility to get access to more clients :P