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jellyfin/jellyfin

The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API

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Website ↗jellyfin.orgThe project's own site.Docs ↗jellyfin.orgLinked from the README.In the browser ↗Open in GitHub CodespacesThe repo ships a dev container, so nothing to install.

Will it work on my device?

Yes, it runs on macOS

You'll build it yourself with .NET SDK.

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4 steps on macOS

Clone the repository

Needs Git: xcode-select --install

git clone https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin.git
cd jellyfin

2
Install the required runtimes
.NET SDK 10.0.0
```
brew install --cask dotnet-sdk
```

Install dependencies

dotnet restore Jellyfin.slnx
dotnet build Jellyfin.slnx

4
Run the tests
```
dotnet test Jellyfin.slnx
```

From the README: Installing the Web Client

The server is configured to host the static files required for the web client in addition to serving the backend by default. Before you can run the server, you will need to get a copy of the web client since they are not included in this repository directly.

Note that it is recommended for development to host the web client separately from the web server with some additional configuration, in which case you can skip this step.

There are two options to get the files for the web client.

Build them from source following the instructions on the jellyfin-web repository
Get the pre-built files from an existing installation of the server. For example, with a Windows server installation the client files are located at C:\Program Files\Jellyfin\Server\jellyfin-web

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Parts list

1×.NET SDK 10.0.0runtime

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Good to know

A .NET solution with several projects: start the app project with dotnet run --project <path/to/App.csproj> (the README usually names it).
Dev Container config found — you can open it in VS Code Dev Containers or GitHub Codespaces for a zero-setup environment.
Nested projects: Emby.Naming/Emby.Naming.csproj, Emby.Photos/Emby.Photos.csproj, Emby.Server.Implementations/Emby.Server.Implementations.csproj, Jellyfin.Api/Jellyfin.Api.csproj and 11 more

Files we read (10)

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

.github/workflows/ci-codeql-analysis.yml

.github/workflows/ci-compat.yml

.github/workflows/ci-format.yml

.github/workflows/ci-tests.yml

.github/workflows/commands.yml

.github/workflows/issue-template-check.yml

Directory.Build.props

README.md

global.json

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