Could you explain why you feel that Jellyfin is a lot better? I’ve seen lots of folks saying it lately, but as someone with an unraid server running plex to back up and view my music and movie collections for years, I don’t get it. I’ve tried Jellyfin twice now. The most recent time was a couple of months ago. While it is good, I honestly have a hard time seeing what makes it much better than Plex. While I disagree with a number of things Plex has done, I still recommend it to friends who want a personal media server or place to rip and backup their CDs to. It’s still the easiest to setup and most intuitive imo. Am I just missing something?
Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Jellyfin is so much better anyway. I used plex for years and it has steadily enshitified.
trashacct@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The most infuriating thing about Plex for me was when they shifted to force you to start with their BS streaming service at open. I only used Plex for my personal media collection. So having to jump through a bunch of menus to get to the only thing I want to use in their app was the biggest reason to switch for me. Maybe there is a way to fix that, but I could never find one.
Jellyfin just does your personal media library and opens right up into it when the app starts. Its simpler, faster, and FOSS.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
You can disable the streaming completely if you really want to. It’s in your preferences. Or just move it farther down the list, or hide it completely by unpinning it as a source.
dai@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
For Plex just unpin the default channels, and leave your local media libraries pinned.
Lizardking13@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I tried jellyfin but didn’t like it. Currently using emby and it works well.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I used Plex before I got tired of it requiring a remote network connection to work in my home network (no remote). I switched to emby a few years ago, and I’m tired of it too: Subtitle is a pain, filtering is a nightmare, integration with sonarr/radarr and configuration is annoying…
I’ve started developing my own streaming server, playback is working nice through the browser from server to tvlaptop. I’m going to integrate Transmission UI into it, and show/movie management, to get rid of sonnarr/radarr and maybe I’ll manage to get rid of jackett too, so tired of this cumbersome stack. I want it all integrated into a single server with a single interface.
Lizardking13@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That sounds cool. You’ve got a much higher technical acumen than me.
pogmommy@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Agreed. Started out in Plex when j knew nothing about self hosting, very quickly made the switch to Jellyfin and haven’t looked back. If I’m hosting my media, storing it locally, and running my own server, I’m much better off not integrating the software of some company that feels entitled to bleed some extra revenue from me.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Honestly I’ve tried jellyfin and I have a hard time agreeing with this for a few reasons:
I’ll give you that morally jellyfin is less customer-adverse than Plex management is at the moment and it is more open in some ways so you can have more plugins and add-ons that Plex lacks, and sure it’s a free product so it should be given some leeway, but if I just listened to all of the people saying jellyfin is just so much better I’d think it was an objectively better offering, but it’s not. When it comes to what I care about, it fell short, so just giving my 2 cents. Still worth trying, considering you can just point it to the same media folders, but yeah not god’s gift on earth.
mintberrycrunch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I agree with this. Add in also Apple TV options aren’t great. Swiftfin is just ok and Infuse is $
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
i’ve had none of those issues and i’ve been a jellyfin user for the past 5 years or so, but I do use containers for the server.
Android client is not great, but there are alternatives like Findroid, which is pretty great.
Last point is literally a couple of clicks. You just need to understand what libraries are and how to add them.