Help with Jukebox mode

[gapato]

I am trying to setup Navidrome's Jukebox mode (thank you for that) on a headless server at home following the documentation here, but when playing a song, the audio from the browser, it plays on the client's speaker, not on the server's output.

I've installed mpv and selected an output device, and checked that mpv correctly played files on that device. I've also configured navidrome like that:

Jukebox.Enabled = true
Jukebox.Default = "pulse"

Jukebox.Devices = [
    [ "pulse",          "pulse/alsa_output.pci-0000_00_08.0.analog-stereo" ]
]

Navidrome output when starting seems fine:

...
INFO[0000] Starting playback server                     
INFO[0000] Login rate limit set                          requestLimit=5 windowLength=20s
INFO[0000] Found ffmpeg                                  path=/usr/bin/ffmpeg          
INFO[0000] 1 audio devices found                        
INFO[0000] Using audio device: pulse/alsa_output.pci-0000_00_08.0.analog-stereo 
...

But as mentioned, the audio plays on the client, not the server. After starting the server, there is no mpv process running (checked with pgrep mpv), is that normal? Is there anything I should do in the browser to enable jukebox mode?

$ navidrome --version
0.50.0 (fee0f40a)

$ mpv --version
mpv 0.32.0 Copyright © 2000-2020 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on UNKNOWN
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       56.51.100
   libavcodec      58.91.100
   libavformat     58.45.100
   libswscale      5.7.100
   libavfilter     7.85.100
   libswresample   3.7.100
ffmpeg version: 4.3.6-0+deb11u1

[dweymouth]

You need to use a Subsonic client like DSub or play:Sub that supports the Jukebox mode. It's a UI setting that has to be turned on in the client to tell Navidrome to play the file using the Jukebox output instead of streaming it to the client. Jukebox mode support has not been added to the builtin web UI.

[gapato]

I see! It took me a while to find how to do it with DSub but it works now. Thank you.

[mneuburg-livefront]

iSub is another one that has a jukebox mode.

[nickolay]

iSub worked for me eventually, but not play:Sub...