Problems running Jellyfin from a Docker Compose

[browbeat7900]

Hello all,

I am very new to self-hosting with Jellyfin and was directed to use docker compose to run jellyfin on my machine running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

I set up a docker-compose.yaml file (shown below) using the jellyfin documentation and a few pointers from other users on reddit and other forums; such as adding ports (http) , changing network mode to bridge, etc.

Code:

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin
    container_name: jellyfin
    user: 1000:1000
    network_mode: 'bridge'
    volumes:
      - /home/browbeat/jellyfin/config:/config
      - /home/browbeat/jellyfin/cache:/cache
      - type: bind
        source: /home/browbeat/jellyfin/media
        target: /media
      - type: bind
        source: /home/browbeat/jellyfin/media2
        target: /media2
        read_only: true
    ports:
      - "8096:8096"
    restart: 'unless-stopped'

when starting the docker compose (after giving docker the proper permissions to run without sudo) I keep receiving the error
"Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint jellyfin (ea2ae228cadcae6b155230ff723239f7032a1cf1968572b260ca24ce6fc77f46): failed to bind port 0.0.0.0:8096/tcp: Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp4 0.0.0.0:8096: bind: address already in use"

I tried doing "docker compose down" and other commands found in threads to close all docker containers but the error still persisted.

when running in host rather than bridge, I am unable to access my media library despite supplying the docker compose my file paths and giving it user 1000 in the yaml file.

FWIW: I am trying to host this as a server to stream photos and videos over a local network.

I am a bit confused as to what exactly I am doing wrong here and am a bit lost in searching through documentation and forums as I am very new to all of this. Any help from the community is appreciated as I just don't really know where to go from here.