Given the recent news about Plex soon charging for remote access, I wanted to finish up my switch to Jellyfin.
What tools/methods have you all used to migrate watch history to Jellyfin?
I have a few family members in there, and would like to get everything switched over without resetting their watch history.
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 week ago
All the folks saying “just buy the lifetime pass” gonna be in for a big disappointment in about 5 years
Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yep. Enshitification behavior doesn’t cease once you’re technically a paying customer. If they hadn’t made a habit of enshitification. Clawing features away to put behind a paywall I’d give them some support. But I prefer foss anyhow. And for myself, I’m not missing anything.
Obelix@feddit.org 1 week ago
And those lifetime subscriptions are also a trap. They know that you have the money and are willing to pay and that you’re using their service. Do you really think that some business suit will be satisfied by your onetime payment back in 2022?
WordBox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If we got 5yr it’s more than paid for itself. Even FOSS needs support - stop whining.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thing is, Plex turns out to be less and less of a good thing with each passing day. Bloat, spying, removal of features, price hikes etc.
If you want to pay for software that is good, there’s always Emby.
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 week ago
PLEX is not FOSS, plex is a proprietary for profit fork of XBMC.
My point is that in 5 years a lot of these plex users will wish they made the switch to jellyfin sooner. We’ve seen this before with other FOSS projects that gets forked into proprietary bullshit to make money.
MadBigote@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t get the people down voting you… It’s not like services are free. I’ve been paying for Plex since 2019, and I just recently got a lifetime pass. It’s only fare to pay for it to use it …
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, do donate to FOSS projects. At least that money will go to people who do the actual work and not to pad corporate profits.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I got the lifetime pass 5 years ago. I’ve switched to JF because of the disappointment so far about a year ago.
JF is exactly what I wanted and needed plex to be, and everything added since is a worsened product. The lifetime pass was an attempt at getting the peace of mind of “then you just have it”. If anything, only FOSS can give that.
droolio@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Won’t take that long before the enshittification is complete.
bread@feddit.nl 1 week ago
I’ve had a lifetime pass for years, but have considered making the switch several times. So far I’ve held back because, and correct me if I’m wrong, there are told to transfer watch state, but not ratings, and while there’s a plugin for dynamic collections, it’s based on tags, so you can’t just have a collection based on something like rating. My library also contains “custom” shows where there’s no match for it online, so I’ve manually assigned it some details.