Stops playing sound when screen locks

[TheDreadPirate]

Give Finamp a try. Make sure you are using the TestFlight version.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/UqHTQTSs

[Steve Klett]

I'm pretty new to Jellyfin and just ran into the same issue with music stopping when the screen locks. At the start of this thread it sounds like there *was* a feature to mitigate this, but then the thread changed to using Finamp and a TestFlight version, at that. Does this mean the JellyFin app can't handle a locked screen on iOS and that the feature that was referenced is no longer available? I'd much rather not have to install different apps to use Jellyfin, if possible.

Anyone know if there is a way to make the iOS JellyFin app continue to play music with the locked screen? If not, is this an indication of the state of things with regards to the JellyFin iOS app?

[tabb]

Work perfectly with finamp (whitout testflight)

[Peter]

I tried to login several times without success, same error :-(.

Finally, I thought about the "Maximum number of simultaneous user sessions" (Edit User - Profile - Maximum number of simultaneous user sessions) setting, which was set to 1 and I had already a Jellyfin session open. Increased the "Maximum number of simultaneous user sessions" setting and I was able to login.
Now, when the screen locks or when using another app simultaneously, Finamp (mp3) keeps playing :-).

Thank you all for your suggestions, especially @theguymadmax !

I had my fingers crossed that this would work for me as well but it doesn't seem to have made a difference. I changed my 'Maximum number of simultaneous user sessions' parameter to 10, re-synced my Media files and reset my iOS Jellyfin app completely before re-logging and loading up a song.

My MP3s are still pausing as soon as I minimize the Jellyfin app or lock my phone. Do you think it could be a hardware limitation? I'm using an iPhone SE (2nd Gen) with iOS 18.1.1.

You need to install Finamp and use it instead of Jellyfin to play your MP3's.

[masterk3y1337]

I'm pretty new to Jellyfin and just ran into the same issue with music stopping when the screen locks. At the start of this thread it sounds like there *was* a feature to mitigate this, but then the thread changed to using Finamp and a TestFlight version, at that. Does this mean the JellyFin app can't handle a locked screen on iOS and that the feature that was referenced is no longer available? I'd much rather not have to install different apps to use Jellyfin, if possible.

Anyone know if there is a way to make the iOS JellyFin app continue to play music with the locked screen? If not, is this an indication of the state of things with regards to the JellyFin iOS app?

Hello. works perfectly  in my iPhone 14 with iOS 18.6, thank you for the advice. Finamp its Great, Easy connect and compatible with JellyFin Sever, Hola from México.

[shauntwl]

Wow amazing, I was looking so hard for a Jellyfin dedicated music player, and saw your post! Weird this isn’t talked about much! 

Finamp stops my music stop playing in BG error. thanks!

If you aren't using the Finamp beta, consider doing so.  It is at a point where it is stable and pretty much feature complete.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-announcing-...esign-beta

But if you want to stick with the official android app, read my post in this thread.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-jellyfin-an...0#pid21120

It lists all the settings that you may need to double check in Android to allow for unrestricted battery and data usage in the background.

[trs]

I'm pretty new to Jellyfin and just ran into the same issue with music stopping when the screen locks. At the start of this thread it sounds like there *was* a feature to mitigate this, but then the thread changed to using Finamp and a TestFlight version, at that. Does this mean the JellyFin app can't handle a locked screen on iOS and that the feature that was referenced is no longer available? I'd much rather not have to install different apps to use Jellyfin, if possible.

Anyone know if there is a way to make the iOS JellyFin app continue to play music with the locked screen? If not, is this an indication of the state of things with regards to the JellyFin iOS app?

I'm also pretty new to Jellyfin and was wondering the same thing. While I think I'll switch to Finamp going forward, I did some fiddling with the official Jellyfin iOS app first. In the OP, Peter says:

I just started using Jellyfin but Jellyfin stops playing mp3's when the screen locks.
When playing a mp4, the screen will not lock.

and this gave me a hunch to see if I could force MP3s (and other formats) to be transcoded server-side to MP4. At the very bottom of the app's Playback settings, I found two options "Always remux FLAC audio files" and "Always remux MP3 audio files". Turning those on seems, in basic testing, to allow playback to continue in the background even with the screen locked.

I suspect you might be able to make a similar workaround via the Jellyfin server settings for transcoding, but I haven't looked into that.

As an aside, I was surprised that I hadn't seen Finamp listed on https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/. Looking again just now, I realized that it *is*, but only once you switch from "Recommended" to "All". That "recommended" filter applied by default is not obvious!