--- title: Why I switched from Apple Music to Jellyfin and Raspberry Pi description: Jellyfin is an open source, 100% free, central server that plays all of the music, movies, and tracking on your TV. Jellyfin runs on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-switched-from-apple-music-to-jellyfin-and-raspberry-pi-fbyirjtdw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why I switched from Apple Music to Jellyfin and Raspberry Pi | daily.dev og:description: Jellyfin is an open source, 100% free, central server that plays all of the music, movies, and tracking on your TV. Jellyfin runs on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-switched-from-apple-music-to-jellyfin-and-raspberry-pi-fbyirjtdw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FBYirJTDw.png og:image:alt: Why I switched from Apple Music to Jellyfin and Raspberry Pi og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why I switched from Apple Music to Jellyfin and Raspberry Pi **[Open Source Way](https://daily.dev/sources/oss)** · 5 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jellyfin is an open source, 100% free, central server that plays all of the music, movies, and tracking on your TV. Jellyfin runs on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4GB of RAM, which is more than I need. The Pi 4 has WiFi but it's connected to my router using ethernet, so there's less lag. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple), [#iot](https://daily.dev/tags/iot), [#jellyfin](https://daily.dev/tags/jellyfin), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-switched-from-apple-music-to-jellyfin-and-raspberry-pi-fbyirjtdw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why I switched from Apple Music to Jellyfin and Raspberry Pi","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-switched-from-apple-music-to-jellyfin-and-raspberry-pi-fbyirjtdw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-switched-from-apple-music-to-jellyfin-and-raspberry-pi-fbyirjtdw"},"datePublished":"2022-07-01T07:20:38.322Z","dateModified":"2026-07-02T02:14:31.962Z","description":"Jellyfin is an open source, 100% free, central server that plays all of the music, movies, and tracking on your TV. Jellyfin runs on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2dc0dcff3f071eb0ba3f223ad4509184","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2dc0dcff3f071eb0ba3f223ad4509184","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Open Source Way","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Open Source Way","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/5b0ebeb91c344b78a2a92b8bc5956b97","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/oss"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-switched-from-apple-music-to-jellyfin-and-raspberry-pi-fbyirjtdw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"apple,iot,jellyfin,open-source","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Open Source Way","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/oss"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Why I switched from Apple Music to Jellyfin and Raspberry Pi"}]} ```