I’ve feel like I’ve used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it’s going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it’s substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I’m impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

  • @Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    107•4 months ago

    I tried to setup Plex and it was just about the most god-awful experience I’ve ever had. It was unnecessarily complex to accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup.

    Installing Jellyfin took like… 2 minutes and I’ve had no issues since.

    Only thing I don’t like about Jellyfin is the metadata engine, which I have disabled and just use TinyMediaManager and save everything to .nfo which is picked up by Jellyfin immediately. Works great.

    • amorpheusEnglish
      10•4 months ago

      It was unnecessarily complex to accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup.

      Please elaborate how you needed to “accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup”.

      When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.

      • @Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        7•4 months ago

        When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.

        They make you register with their own website to login to your local instance… That’s you jumping through hoops to accommodate their cloud bullshit;

        It’s important to understand that Plex Media Server does not have its own graphical user interface. When you run the server on your computer, NAS, or other device, you won’t see a window open with a “server UI” or similar. Instead, you use our web app to manage your server.

        It’s so fucking unnecessary.

    • @TheBeesKnees@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      Has Jellyfin improved its subtitle fetching?It’s been awhile since using Jellyfin. I stayed with Plex because downloading subtitles on the fly wasn’t available in Jellyfin, and no extensions for it either.

      • @Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        I guess it depends on when you last used it. I opt for the CLI approach, but Jellyfin can install a plugin which allows (on library scan) to extract internal subtitles, which fixes 90% of issues with subtitle display for devices like Chromecasts.

        Jellyfin also integrates with OpenSubstiles: https://i.xno.dev/gVee6.png