I am a die-hard Jellyfin user, but I still haven’t found a proper way to index and stream my music library with it. As far as i know, Plex is still better at that.
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rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 2 months ago
Can someone clue me in on the reason why anyone would prefer Plex instead of Jellyfin?
Muffi@programming.dev 2 months ago
Psychonaut1969@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Navidrome and Airsonic advanced provide a better music experience than jellyfin for me anyway and both are free.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I dropped my library in, Jellyfin indexed it and streamed first try. What didn’t work for you?
SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Not the user you replied to, but for me, the issue I’ve been running into is with featured albums or albums with album artist metadata info filled out {image}.
Its been a minute so I dont have the specific cause I was focused on. This problem was more prevalent in EDM tracks
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t think jellyfin does any tagging for you. Pretty sure you can edit it, but it’s not automatic. I use lidarr and mp3tag for that. Maybe musicbrainz picard on a rare occasion, if I’ve got a bunch of files that need to be identified first.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I dropped my music library into Jellyfin just as an extra. I’ve built up quite a collection over the years of CDs and always rip and tag them as I acquire new CDs, so while the collection is a little messy it’s sizable and mostly correctly tagged
Jellyfin’s music playback has been buggy but getting better with updates. At the current rate of improvement it’ll probably be really good in a 2-4 years, but right now it’s kinda meh. It exists but it’s buggy enough that I don’t use it much
RyeBread@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’ve recently had really good luck with Finamp on Android at least. With the recent support of time lyrics in Jellyfin and Finamp’s redesign I’ve been using that to stream my Flac audio files. Works quite well with separate collections as well. Though, to this day I still have to force close it more times than I like to get the UI to refresh after closing it. Plexamp was tough to lose when I swapped many years ago, but the third party space has slowly been closing that gap over the years.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I think it mostly comes down to sharing stuff with others.
There’s a lot of stuff in Jellyfin you wouldn’t want to expose to the internet.
No idea if Jellyfin even has a client for my dad’s shonky old 4K TV, but I certainly wouldn’t be able to set up Wireguard or anything on it.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I wouldn’t expose Plex to the internet either
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The lack of a PS5 app makes Jellyfin useless to me. We have a dumb TV with no casting ability so the PlayStation is out media box.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 months ago
$30 Android box solves this
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I generally agree with you and its what I did, but why do i need yet another device plugged in, draining power all the time? I dont want to leave an even larger co2 footprint and software support on existing hardware could aid in that. The android box is a workaround, not a green enough solution in my opinion.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Because of proprietary garbage, copyright law and enshittification.
If it’s any benefit to you, the Android box being Android allows it to sip power at an LED bulb’s level of efficiency when it’s idle.
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Have you even tried the web UI?
Xanza@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Chromecast. Regular is cheap, and grab the 4K one if you wanna stream higher quality movies. Cost you less than $100.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They’re going to sell the data to movie companies so they can find out what is being pirated
3abas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s not hard to find out what’s being pirated, BitTorrent isn’t private.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It is when you use a private tracker and disable DHT, Local Peer Discovery and Peer Exchange.
rothaine@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Years ago, I tried out Jellyfin (Emby at the time) and it couldn’t do chromecasting with subtitles (probably fixed by now, this was a long time ago). Since I wanted to watch anime, I bought a Plex lifetime subscription instead, and I’m too lazy to switch.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It can Chromecast these days
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
People commonly cite more polished clients and clients available on obscure platforms like legacy smart TVs and such
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
End user management.
Essentially, accounts and passwords are not my problem.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TV apps.
rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 2 months ago
What is wrong with Jellyfin’s TV app? I use it on my Android TV and I don’t have any problems
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not available for my Samsung or the kid’s Visio TVs
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Because Jellyfin et al are all still very much “open source projects” in terms of UI/UX and it is still “missing” so many features.
For me? The big reasons why I just use plex boil down to:
- Maybe 80% of the time, I can cache an episode or a movie locally on my tablet when I am going on travel. This is great if I am doing a rewatch of something or don’t super care about The Experience and just want to watch the next few episodes of a show in the evening. With Plex, this is trivial. With SOME of the third party jellyfin apps, this can be sort of worked around but then becomes a hassle to sync watch statistics (which episodes were watched or even where I left off because a buddy wanted to go out for drinks).
- Remote watching is similarly a mess. Plex has pretty okay-good systems to treat my home server as a “cloud” resource with a single forwarded port. While even that is very questionable security wise, Jellyfin is still “figure it out yourself”. Which can be done with setting up a vpn or using Tailscale but adds additional complexities.
- Plenty of other “quirks” along similar lines
My personal opinion? For something that only “tech savvy” people are using more or less locally, Jellyfin is fine. For something that “just works”? There is no competition with Plex. And considering how many of the Jellyfin workarounds end up being “just download a copy of the file locally and watch it in VLC”… why would I use Jellyfin at all in that case when I could otherwise just mount a samba share or use Kodi (that is the latest incarnation of XBMC or whatever the samba share frontend we all used to watch porn on our playstations was, right?).
ginopilotino@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I feel exactly the same as you, but i’d like to add a number 4 point: Plex has an offical app for every system/SO
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jellyfin is not as easy as Plex to use. Many of us are not that technically advanced
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If you are advanced enough to run a docker image with Plex, you can do the same with Jellyfin
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What is a docker? Plex is just a few clicks.
Nutteman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My first time fucjing around with Plex did NOT include docker. I googled what docker was like 9 times over the course of stupid few months cause I just didnt understand it. Now I do, and I run it via a docker stack but very very few beginners are gonna go for docker.
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Then how did you use Plex? Did you even RTFM?
rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 2 months ago
You don’t even have to use docker for Jellyfin, you can install the server as a regular program
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I went to the Jellyfin landing page, copy pasted and ran literally one command, clicked a button to point it at my media folders and then I was done.
What isn’t easy?
JordanZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Uhhh… UpNp or port forwarding is the same way both Plex and Jellyfin work?
I don’t know what makes Jellyfin less secure since they both work the same way for this as far as I can tell…
Can you be more specific about what makes Jellyfin less secure when it comes to UpNp/port forwarding?
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I use samba (file sharing) and vlc.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 months ago
User sharing without opening my Plex server to the public internet. For Jellyfin I would have to become a VPN provider and allow people into my private network to share it safely, since you wouldn’t want to have Jellyfin available to the internet with their stance on security
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because Plex used to be good but new it’s just pure enshitification.
ginopilotino@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It just works and has a native app for basically everything.
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sunk cost. It took me loosing my Plex watch history to say fuck it I’m going to Jellyfin.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I saw several solutions on Github that could migrate it.
Assuming you use/-d trakt you could use that to re-import the watch history
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been a Plex user. Honestly it was mostly because I chose Plex years ago before a lot of the recent controversy. Plex always seemed like it had a nicer interface, though I never really gave Jellyfin a try. As of late, Plex has started to add a lot of bloat to their interface, so at this point Jellyfin’s UI might actually be a pro.
scottywh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve tried Jellyfin and the Live TV / tuner interface sucked so bad I didn’t want to bother with it any further. Maybe I could have found plugins or some shit to make it more usable but I’ve had a lifetime Plex pass for almost a decade and it still works great
Yes, they’ve made a number of decisions that truly suck in that time but it’s still better than the experience I had with Jellyfin or Emby, even recently.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It works pretty well for me personally. What was the problem?
scottywh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The guide (or lack thereof) and UX was severely lacking.
Have you used a tuner on Plex?
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Can I ask why nobody recommends Emby? I’ve been using it for years with zero issues. The only thing I can think of is that Jellyfin exists and is free. Emby is sort of a middleground between Plex and Jellyfin; it has a paid license (lifetime option exists), but it’s closer to Jellyfin than Plex on the whole.
paperd@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Emby rugpulled their users, that’s why jellyfin exists at all.
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Do you mind elaborating on that? It sounds like I got in on Emby after the rugpull. It works fine for me and I use it without the Connect (online account) feature.
1hitsong@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
For one, they went moved from open source to closed source without notice.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
There are a LOT of pros and cons.
Pros:
Cons: