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Cagi@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Plex isn’t another evil tech company, it’s just full of stupid features and unresolved bugs. Jellyfish just isn’t good enough to replace it yet; it’s more finicky to setup, isn’t as good as matching titles and displaying the metadata, and has fewer features. But it is catching up fast.
It’s not evil, it’s just for-profit.
If there’s money to be made by implementing a feature, they have incentive to do it, even if it actively makes the product worse. So long as it doesn’t make you leave, or rather, so long as it doesn’t make enough users leave that it negates the profit incentive.
A lot of people chose to use a self-hosted server to get AWAY from that tendency
It’s not evil, it’s just for-profit.
Potato potahto.
The title matching is what made me go to Plex. Some shows were impossible to get sorted right on Jellyfin. Plus there’s a lot more ecosystem around Plex
It's not impossible, you just need to name your files correctly. I haven't had a single issue with either Jellyfin or Plex. Used both for many years.
Out of curiosity, what sort of challenges did you have with setting up shows in jellyfin? I’ve been working with it and haven’t encountered any issues yet
The issue, I think, was because most of what I use it for is anime. So some shows wanted the Japanese title, others wanted the English title, some couldn’t be found at all. My US TV shows and movies never had that problem.
Try Emby. I left Plex a few years back and Emby has been everything Plex used to be.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I set up jellyfin by pointing the prebuilt docker container to my media folder. And it just kinda worked.
Not saying your wrong, just that it wasn’t my experience.
urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I agree.
I haven’t had much issue with Jellyfin, but I don’t watch a lot of things with subtitles. I don’t have a lot of specialized video, just some TV shows, movies and music dumped on a local computer. I think we had an issue with a video where we couldn’t figure out how to change the audio channel (default was not set to english) but that might have been fixed in an update? I’m not sure. I just grabbed a different copy.
The IOS app is not very good though. If you start the app, you can lock the screen once while having background playback. After that you have to force close and re-open it for background playback. Not sure why, might be an IOS bug honestly.
Cagi@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I had to manually add my server a few times before it stuck. When it got working, many shows were mismatched or no title matches were found, some shows had rogue seasons as their own entries, and the entire design philosophy seems less together. All that said, these are just growing pains of newer software. I have no doubt I will genuinely prefer how Jellyfin works one day.
isles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agreed, I had been putting off trying Jellyfin until Plex kept having issues with my Chromecast. I sat down and prepared myself for an ordeal and it just wasn’t that.
There are different issues with it casting that Plex didn’t have, but it hasn’t balked at any of my media yet.
0ops@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Same. For my needs (streaming 4k HDR over the LAN), Plex and jelleyfin have been basically equivalent