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title: Jellyfin for Android TV 0.18
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authors:
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- nielsvanvelzen
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slug: androidtv-v0.18.0
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tags: [release, android-tv]
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---
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Version 0.18 of our Jellyfin for Android TV app is ready! Exciting features like lyrics and media segments are now available, along with
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significant improvements to subtitles and more.
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This release marks another milestone in our journey to delivering the best media app on Android TV. Jellyfin 10.10 or newer is required. A
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complete list of changes, including their respective pull requests, can be found on
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[GitHub](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/tag/v0.18.0). I've listed a subset of all changes below.
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### Skipping intros, outros and more with media segments
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Media segments are a new feature added in Jellyfin 10.10. A segment provides metadata for specific parts of a video or audio file. This can
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be used to mark an intro in your episode or the credits of a movie. The Android TV app can now use those segments to skip parts. By default,
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the app will ask to skip intros and outros, but you can fine-tune this to your liking within the app preferences. All media segment types
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are supported: intro, outro, preview, recap and commercial with three actions to choose from:
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- **Skip**
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Immediately skips the playback forward to the end of the segment, or the next episode
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- **Ask to skip**
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Shows a popup that the segment can be skipped by pressing the OK button on your remote and disappears after 8 seconds or when pressing the
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back button.
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- **Do nothing**
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The segment will be ignored, with no skips or popups.
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More actions and functionality related to media segments is already in the works for future releases, like a "mute" action that temporarily
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silences audio.
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### Revamped subtitles
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This release completely redesigns the way subtitles are loaded and shown on screen, resolving a large number of issues reported over the
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past few years.
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Previously the app did not support embedded subtitles and forced the server to extract them from video files first. This is a resource-heavy
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process and often causes subtitles to not show up or with a big delay. A workaround for this was to use the "Subtitle Extract" plugin that
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will do this extraction ahead of time, this was cumbersome and is now no longer necessary.
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Together with these loading changes, the app now reliably supports Presentation Graphic Stream (PGS) subtitles and positioning tags in the
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SubRip Subtitle Format (SRT), a much requested feature!
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To make these changes happen, the preferences for subtitles have also slightly changed. It is now possible to choose your own background and
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outline colors.
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### Sing along with lyrics
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Not only did video playback improve, playing music has gotten some upgrades as well! The most exciting change here is support for lyrics.
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Whenever your song has lyrics available (added by a plugin or on your file system), they will be shown in the app. This works especially
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well when combined with our screensaver, which will show lyrics fullscreen.
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Currently, 2 types of lyrics are supported: timed lyrics, which will highlight the current line of the vocal track, and untimed lyrics,
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which will automatically scroll based on the track duration.
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In addition to the lyric changes, some bugs have been fixed where a music queue would never disappear when the last track ends and some text
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elements did not update properly.
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### Other changes
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In addition to the previously mentioned changes there's a lot more to enjoy. The video player will no longer randomly show its controls and
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they stay hidden when the video is loading for a smoother experience. An issue where sorting libraries by "last played" did not work for TV
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shows was fixed. And finally, a lot of improvements under the hood were made to make the app faster, easier to maintain, and more stable
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than ever.
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There are as also two new experimental options for playback. The first one is related to decoding audio codecs, while normally the app will
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automatically fall back to using a different decoding approach using FFmpeg, this might not always work. You can now enable the "Prefer
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FFmpeg for audio playback" preference to force the fallback approach.
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The second experimental option adds support for previews when scrubbing, once "Enable trickplay in video player" is checked you'll see image
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previews above the progress bar while scrubbing through your videos! There are some issues and annoyances with the current implementation
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which will be resolved before this feature will be enabled by default and marked non-experimental. Make sure the Trickplay feature is
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enabled on your libraries for the previews to show up.
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## Contributors
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Jellyfin is completely developed by volunteers, and couldn't be made without their great skills and dedication. Consider donating if you
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appreciate their work. A big shout-out to all contributors that made this release possible:
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**Jellyfin Team**
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- [@nielsvanvelzen](https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen) - Donate via [GitHub sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen)
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**Other contributors**
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- [@MichaelRUSF](https://github.com/MichaelRUSF)
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- [@JagerSprinkles](https://github.com/JagerSprinkles)
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- [@pascalwei](https://github.com/pascalwei)
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- [@kabel2](https://github.com/kabel2)
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- [@starsep](https://github.com/starsep)
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- [@rickysixx](https://github.com/rickysixx)
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- [@ericleb010](https://github.com/ericleb010)
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- [@reacocard](https://github.com/reacocard)
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And finally a big thank you to everyone who contributed translations, reported bugs, provided feedback and participated in beta testing!
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### Helping out
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If you have experience with Android TV development or with Kotlin and are interested in contributing yourself, feel free to dive into the
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[source code](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv) and open a pull request. Alternatively, you can help with translating the app
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into your own language on our [Weblate](https://translate.jellyfin.org/engage/jellyfin-android/) instance.
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## Downloads
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Update your app now to check out all these changes! The app stores will auto-update your Jellyfin app if you're already using the app. For
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new users, you can find the app on the app store of your platform.
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<a className='margin-right--md' href='https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.androidtv'>
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<img width='153' alt='Jellyfin for Android TV on Google Play' src='/images/store-icons/google-play.png' />
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</a>
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<a className='margin-right--md' href='https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TX7Z725'>
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<img width='153' alt='Jellyfin for Fire TV at Amazon App Store' src='/images/store-icons/amazon.png' />
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</a>
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<a href='https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jellyfin.androidtv/'>
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<img width='153' alt='Jellyfin for Android TV on F-Droid' src='/images/store-icons/fdroid.png' />
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</a>
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Direct downloads are available for sideloading at [repo.jellyfin.org](https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/androidtv/)
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or in the [GitHub release assets](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/latest).
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You can also join our [beta program on Google Play](https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.jellyfin.androidtv) and help test new versions
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before they're released to the public. [Read more](../../2021/07-24-android-betas.mdx) about our beta program.
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