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
• Click any column header (artist, album, track #, title, length, …) to sort
• 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
• 10-band graphic equalizer (31 Hz–16 kHz) with presets, live while playing
• Collapse to a compact mini player that stays on top while you use other apps
• Playlist builder with drag-and-drop reordering
• Right-click an album to add it to the playlist or burn it directly
• Save and manage multiple named playlists (separate "Editor" / "Saved" tabs), auto-saved as you go; JSON import/export still available as backup
• 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
• Optional CD-Text (album/track info written to the disc)
• Automatic fallback to an MP3 data CD when a playlist is too long for audio (192 kbps, ~8h capacity)
• 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 xorriso

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)

xorriso (or genisoimage/mkisofs) is only needed for the MP3 data CD fallback (long playlists). Audio CD burning and CD-Text work without it.

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/pixels-more/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/pixels-more/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. Optionally toggle CD-Text and auto-switch-to-MP3-CD behavior
8. 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/. Saved playlists live in ~/.config/jellyburn_playlists/ as individual JSON files.

Usage

Action	How
Browse	Click an artist → albums update; click an album → tracks filter
Sort	Click any column header (also works in the browser and track list)
Search	Type in the search bar — filters title, artist and album live
Play	Double-click a track, or select it and press Play
Equalizer	Click „EQ" next to the playback controls
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) → „+ Add selection", or right-click a track/album → „Add to Playlist"
Burn an album directly	Right-click an album → „Burn Album"
Reorder playlist	Drag and drop rows
Remove from playlist	Select rows and press Delete, or right-click → remove
Manage saved playlists	„Saved" tab: switch, rename, delete; „Editor" tab: current playlist, auto-saved as you edit
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

Audio CD (playlist ≤ 74 min):

1. Tracks are downloaded from Jellyfin one by one
2. Each track is converted to WAV (44100 Hz, 16-bit stereo) via ffmpeg
3. If CD-Text is enabled, a cue sheet with album/track metadata is generated
4. All WAV files are written to CD as an audio disc in DAO mode via cdrskin (or wodim)

MP3 data CD (playlist too long for an audio CD, ~700 MB capacity):

1. Tracks are downloaded; files already in MP3 format are kept as-is, everything else is transcoded to MP3 (192 kbps) via ffmpeg
2. An ISO9660 data disc image is built via xorriso (or genisoimage/mkisofs)
3. The image is burned via cdrskin (or wodim) in data mode

Depending on the setting, this MP3 fallback is offered automatically or applied silently when a playlist exceeds 74 minutes.

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