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Still don’t get why people use Plex over Jellyfin
In my own house, or just myself. Jellyfin is fine. I haven't spent as much time on it though compared to Plex.
Plex has its own user auth, I don't need to manage that. My friends and family don't have to hit me up for password resets.
It has apps on pretty much every device.
Users can just log in. They don't need to know what server to type in.
Just gonna drop this link here for anyone who's interested in a 3rd party Jellyfin user management application. This fixes the issues related to inviting users and allowing them to reset their own passwords. Would obviously prefer all of this built into jellyfin, but solutions do exist for those determined enough.
Yer it's clear people who go on about not understanding either have small circles of users, or don't actually support people...
You aren't getting Pop and Nan to understand how to troubleshoot or setup Jellyfin access on their old TV compared to just throwing in a Chromecast or fire stick and having Plex auto logon with an account you setup for them if the couldn't. Makes life a ton easier, even at the cost of other liberties.
They just want to watch Zulu or Are you being Served again, nothing more.
TIL that jellyfin doesn't support an actual password reset. I've never had to actually try. That's somewhat disappointing.
For me?
There's FinAmp for jellyfin. There's also support for LiveTV and I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least a plugin for IPTV.
LiveTV refers to a PlutoTV like service for Plex. There are a lot of amazing channels, but the big gain for me is having broadcast news networks.
FinAmp really isnt up to PlexAmp yet. PlexAmps "guestdj" mode is really awesome and it still doesn't have a Carplay App which kills it right there for me.
I am a lifetime Plex Pass User... I am not affected by their BS... Yet (watch together is going though).
you are, though. your personal information (like usage data) is going through them
No no, they promised they don't do that nasty stuff, I gotta believe them.
It's a lot easier to setup and get non-techy family to join. Setting up Jellyfin is easy until you want access outside your LAN. Setting up TLS or a VPN is a hassle I don't want unless there is no other option. Plex has features I (and my family) use that jellyfin doesn't support by default yet. Last I checked syncing of files for offline viewing in the official app wasn't very good yet. Plex has a bunch of ad supported live streams baked in that aren't too bad. There is a "How It's Made" channel, a Mythbusters channel, and Top Gear channel. PlexAmp isn't perfect, but it's better than any of the Jellyfin options I've seen.
Inertia, mostly.
Of course Plex then takes advantage of that with the slow erosion of the free edition.
I paid Plex Pass Lifetime for peanuts (maybe $50 or $75) a decade ago, not using it would mean wasting that so yeah..
Because some of us bought the lifetime Plex Pass for cheap many years ago and it's what our family is used to. Plex also passes the "wife test", and my kids use Plexamp on their phones for music.
Not gonna stop me from ditching Plex in the not-too-distant future though, once I figure out Jellyfin and another local music streaming app that doesn't have an interface stuck in 1997.
Because comparitively, jellyfin sucks.
Once they reach some semblance of feature parity, then you can in good faith ask this question.
Jellyfin does everything it needs to. Movies, tv, metadata, music. What else?
that is the most basic list of features… if something implemented only that list id consider it an alpha
the thing im waiting on to switch is skip buttons on intro/outro/etc across all platforms i care about
It has that.
it does not have that on apple tv, thus it does not have that on all platforms that i care about - in fact, that’s the main, if not only platform that i really care about
~~heck, it doesn’t have skip buttons on any platform: it places chapter markers, which is a great implementation!… if they also added metadata that showed a button overlay for “special” chapters like this as well~~ updated and checked again - they do add buttons now, but still not on tvos
all of this is fine, and i’m sure they’ll get there but it’s disingenuous to say that everything is at feature parity with plex
because it’s actually usable?
I didn’t realize my setup wasn’t usable. What does plex offer that makes the usability so much better? I considered plex for my newish setup but if anything, all the privacy controversies and charging for features was more unusable to me than anything I’ve noticed with Jellyfin
since the last time I checked (could be they've made progress since then):
in short it's a lot of tiny little things that make my overall experience just annoying.
Client Support is way better, Hardware transcoding is more reliable and easier to set up (as in you don't have to in Plex), UI/UX is better (if you can live with removing Plex' stuff once from your homescreen), that also means the settings, which I find convoluted in Jellyfin. The media matching is way worse and I won't go through thousands of folder to rename them just because Jellyfin only accepts one singular way to name things
bad take, jellyfin is great.
bad take, people are allows to have opinions that aren’t yours
Not about jellyfin being bad. One of the best FOSS
I will make the switch once they revoke my lifetime pass, but in the meantime I'm really hoping that Jellyfin gets a face lift. I've tested Jellyfin a good bit and it mostly has feature parity for everything I care about, but it's UI is objectively uglier than Plex's
It syncs all movie covers and metadata automatically. When I used jellyfin last, this was a struggle.
It's only an issue if the files aren't properly named. If you're using *arr this won't be an issue. E.g. "Title (Year) - TMBD/TVDB ID" works flawlessly.
That’s good to hear. I’ve got an arr setup so this is promising whenever plex becomes unusable to me.
Definitely not an issue anymore