I love EVERYTHING there except
Saved servers and settings will not be migrated from Jellyfin Media Player.
I can fix it, and it's no big deal, but I provide services to friends and family who'll need me to walk them through it.
That's the stuff where we lose out to corporate products.
That's the stuff where we lose out to corporate products.
They sometimes lose things as well.
And they harrass their users in other ways, for example by randomly renaming stuff to "AI..." or even integrating with AI.
100%
Ads, selling private data, adding AI, cutting features.
I just need JF to be in the same neighborhood as the corporate stuff for security and end-user ease of use. I can do a hell of a lot of complicated stuff on my end, but walking grandma through a change is painful.
The fact that jellyfin let's you sort your media exactly the way you want without promoting or hiding content already puts JF miles ahead any commercial streaming services. The ease of mind is unbeatable.
I absolutely hate what Plex has become. I bought a lifetime pass a long, long time ago, and ever since that purchase, they seem to have done nothing but strip features I need and force features I don't want.
Now if we could just sort the jf collections type in ways other than by date ;)
Now if we could just sort the jf collections type in ways other than by date ;)
Sounds like Good First Issue material! (;
I've been looking through the source. I could totally fix it, but I worry no one would appreciate my code chops :) And I think the current work on the db changes might invalidate anything I actually try.
That looks specific to jf desktop, do you have many users using that?
One too many apparently :)
I'll survive.
The tizen version is finally close to release. I don’t use a Samsung TV but in-laws do and I don’t like installing the dev version.
Yeah, the Tizen app will be huge for me. I’ve been dual-running Plex and JF specifically because a few of my users have Tizen devices. And there’s no way I’d be able to explain sideloading to my “throws up their hands and says it’s too complicated as soon as they see anything unexpected” relatives over the phone.
Luckily, I got a lifetime PlexPass like a decade ago, before JF even existed. So it’s not like supporting Tizen is costing me anything extra.
This general attitude towards giving up when something becomes unfamiliar is wild to me, because in any discipline they're even slightly good at, they'd take a minor hurdle as a learning experience, plus they have you to walk them through it, so it really isn't a big deal.
This was made abundantly clear when I installed the Jellyseerr app (basically just a webapp) on my Dad's phone, logged in for him and walked him through this process:
"That's too complicated I'll just ask you when I want to watch something"
I sent him a Signal message in a new group called "Jellyfin guide". It should be easy to find since I'm his only Signal contact.
Just follow the guide.
A week later, "hey can you download this for me?"
It’s learned helplessness. They hit a roadblock they couldn’t figure out, and instead of trying again, they just went “well I guess this tech stuff isn’t for me.” And now that’s the attitude they fall into every time.
It’s like if someone lost their first board game, and just wrote off board games entirely because they aren’t any good at them. And any time they do need to play a board game, they can just call their favorite nephew to play it for them.
Wow, so blessed to be the be the 'board game guy'. I sure do love being dependable and perceived as not valuing my time.
Very exiting. I'm looking forward to the day I can finally ditch Plex
I changed to jellyfin a couple of weeks ago, and my wife and I both prefer jellyfin, by far. It's quicker and just looks better. We only use it for streaming local content, never used any other Plex features.
Just upgraded from 10.10. Seems to have gone well. Library scan still going.
E: Couldn't finish lib scan. Reverted to 10.10.
10.11 is still a hot mess for large home media collection. Especially one with images mixed in. The team doesn't even seem to prioritize fixing all of that before moving on building new features. Music collection are also slower and albums meta don't load correctly anymore. I would hold off from fully converting to it if you have a large collection
We were using Jellyfin to watch old episodes of Sherlock Holmes last night, during a break we switched over to playing a few songs I had thrown on there. The interface for movies and shows seems great but my spouse asked me, "why is there a shuffle option for shows?" To which I said idk, maybe if someone watches something like family guy it doesn't matter. But then when we were under my music section, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to use shuffle. It was probably user error, but it seemed strange
Looks like when you're in a "mixed Playlist", whatever that means, the shuffle and loop buttons are removed from the interface of the audio player (AudioPlayerView.bs:148-159). I'm not sure why that is, but it seems like it's deliberate.
The 'Experimental' layout is now enabled by default for all non-TV devices, introducing a new navigation layout and updated UI components.
Anyone got pictures?
ahhh I've been waiting for a new layout, too bad i probably won't get to use it since they won't fix the bug/feature that keeps the pc awake and screen on with a black image after an episode finishes (when autoplay off). will be forever stuck in player 1.9.1.
I don’t understand why they put so much effort into clients, when the server is still missing so many QoL features. I wish they would finally focus on those, or else I have no reason to move away from Plex.
I put my time and effort into the Roku client because I'm not a C# programmer.
And I greatly appreciate it! My wife and I are thrilled with the latest-ish changes (my server was out of commission basically all of last year)
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