jellyburn 0.4.0

A GTK music player for Jellyfin with CD burning support

jellyburn

A GTK3 desktop app for Linux to browse your Jellyfin music library, build playlists, and burn them directly to audio CD.

Features

• Connects to any Jellyfin server via API key or username/password
• iTunes-style column browser — filter by artist, then album, then tracks
• Track number column, search by title, artist or album
• Album art display fetched directly from Jellyfin
• Playback via mpv with now-playing info, progress bar and scrubbing
• Collapse to a compact mini player that stays on top while you use other apps
• Playlist builder with drag-and-drop reordering, save/load as JSON
• Delete tracks from playlist with the Delete key or right-click
• Real-time CD capacity bar (green → yellow → red, max. 74 min)
• Burn directly to audio CD in Disc At Once mode — no extra steps
• Auto-detects optical drives, shown as a dropdown in settings
• Library cached locally for instant startup, refreshed in the background
• Checks for missing system dependencies on startup with clear instructions
• UI language switchable between English and German (Settings → Language)

Requirements

System packages (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint):

sudo apt install python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 mpv ffmpeg cdrskin

cdrskin is the recommended burn backend. wodim is supported as a fallback but may require extra permissions on modern kernels:

sudo setcap cap_ipc_lock+ep $(which wodim)

Python: 3.10 or newer. The only Python dependency (requests) is installed automatically via pip.

Your user must be in the cdrom group to access the optical drive without root:

sudo usermod -aG cdrom $USER
# log out and back in for the change to take effect

Installation

pip install jellyburn

Or run from source:

git clone https://github.com/oemerhamzaoglu/jellyburn
cd jellyburn
pip install -e .
jellyburn

Desktop integration (optional)

After installing via pip, add Jellyburn to your application menu:

# Icon
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
curl -o ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/jellyburn.svg \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oemerhamzaoglu/jellyburn/main/jellyburn/icons/jellyburn.svg

# Desktop entry
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cat > ~/.local/share/applications/jellyburn.desktop << 'EOF'
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Jellyburn
Comment=Browse your Jellyfin music library and burn audio CDs
Exec=jellyburn
Icon=jellyburn
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Music;
EOF

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/

Setup

1. Click the settings icon (⚙) in the top right
2. Enter your Jellyfin server URL, e.g. https://jellyfin.example.com
3. Enter an API key — Jellyfin Dashboard → Administration → API Keys → New Key
4. Select your CD drive from the dropdown (auto-detected)
5. Set burn speed (default: 4×)
6. Choose your preferred language (English or Deutsch)
7. Save — the app connects and loads your library

Config is stored in ~/.config/jellyburn.json. Passwords are never saved — only the API token obtained after login. Library cache is stored in ~/.cache/jellyburn/.

Usage

Action	How
Browse	Click an artist → albums update; click an album → tracks filter
Search	Type in the search bar — filters title, artist and album live
Play	Double-click a track, or select it and press Play
Scrub	Click or drag the progress bar to seek within a track
Mini player	Click the collapse button in the header; click restore to return
Add to playlist	Select tracks (Ctrl+click for multiple), then „+ Add selection"
Reorder playlist	Drag and drop rows
Remove from playlist	Select rows and press Delete, or right-click → remove
Save/load playlist	Use the save/open icons in the playlist header
Burn	Click „● BURN CD" — tracks are downloaded, converted and burned

The CD capacity bar turns yellow above 85 % and red when the playlist exceeds 74 minutes.

Burn process

1. Tracks are downloaded from Jellyfin one by one
2. Each track is converted to WAV (44100 Hz, 16-bit stereo) via ffmpeg
3. All WAV files are written to CD as an audio disc in DAO mode via cdrskin (or wodim)

Temporary files in /tmp/jellyfin_burn_*/ are cleaned up automatically after burning.

Contributing

Open an issue before starting larger changes. PRs welcome.

License

MIT — see LICENSE