Jellyfin DLNA reports m4a audio files as video/quicktime

[Mike S]

You'd need to check in the Jellyfin logs which profile it is using and then modify that profile with this.

I have looked through the logs, and I can't find the DLNA profile mentioned. I just get entries like:

Code:

[2024-10-18 16:18:59.121 +11:00] [INF] [65] Jellyfin.Api.Controllers.UniversalAudioController: GetPostedPlaybackInfo profile: DeviceProfile { Name: null, Id: null, MaxStreamingBitrate: 8000000, MaxStaticBitrate: 8000000, MusicStreamingTranscodingBitrate: 128000, MaxStaticMusicBitrate: 8000000, DirectPlayProfiles: [DirectPlayProfile { Container: "opus", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "webm", AudioCodec: "opus", VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "mp3", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "aac", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "m4a", AudioCodec: "aac", VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "m4b", AudioCodec: "aac", VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "flac", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "webma", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "webm", AudioCodec: "webma", VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "wav", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "ogg", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }], TranscodingProfiles: [TranscodingProfile { Container: "mp4", Type: Audio, VideoCodec: "", AudioCodec: "aac", Protocol: hls, EstimateContentLength: False, EnableMpegtsM2TsMode: False, TranscodeSeekInfo: Auto, CopyTimestamps: False, Context: Streaming, EnableSubtitlesInManifest: False, MaxAudioChannels: null, MinSegments: 0, SegmentLength: 0, BreakOnNonKeyFrames: False, Conditions: [] }], ContainerProfiles: [], CodecProfiles: [], SubtitleProfiles: [] }
[2024-10-18 16:18:59.122 +11:00] [INF] [65] Jellyfin.Api.Helpers.MediaInfoHelper: User policy for "mike". EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True

Code:

<DirectPlayProfile container="mp3,flac,m4a,wma" type="Audio" />

You can also try adding that to the default profile.

If this is a non-docker install of jellyfin, the DLNA profiles are located in /var/lib/jellyfin/plugins/DLNA_3.0.0.0/profiles.

I added the "mp3,flac,m4a,wma" into the existing "DirectPlayProfile" line in Default.xml, but it made no difference (I'm not using docker).

Is there any way of turning on some debugging to see what is being sent & received? I guess it is possible that the Android client app (HiFi Cast) is doing something wrong. That app has a simple debug mode which says that the mime-type of the m4a files is video/quicktime, rather than an audio type. Unfortunately both Jellyfin & that app were updated to a new version within a few days of each other, so I can't be certain where the fault lies. All I know is that it worked before those updates.