This is the year of the Jellyfin desktop
It’s great. Clean, minimal. Love it. Plex is like a titanic. Way too much heft for me. It’s also corporate, so hard pass
I’ve got gigs of music and rip all my Blu-rays. Jellyfin was a shock! Runs so much smoother, streaming faster. I had no idea streaming over my network can be effectively lag free. It’s also nice having a choice of players, some work better for Android Auto, some better on my Windows desktop etc.
The scrubbing in Jelly is insanely snappy to me. My existing player hooks right into and even has a sync extension that makes it all even snappier.
I was running a samba share before but moving to a proper media server opened up another world. Also love how easy it is to edit metadata and even add to it (I’ve opened a moviedb account adding missing covers and other art).
Unfortunately Plex is a catchy name though. I’ve been with Jelly for a few years now and still call it Plex sometimes
Okay so serious question here.
Why does Plex get to make this decision?
I don’t use Plex. But if they CAN do this, it seems to me there must be some unnecessary cloud dependence in Plex.
A good media server IMHO does not need a cloud connection, it should just work on your local network.
yes, they have a centralized login system. It’s my biggest issue with plex and why i am experimenting with switching to jellyfin.
I’ve been running Jellyfin since around it’s inception - highly recommend! Not quite as feature heavy as Plex yet, but an excellent community.
Do you also have experience with Emby? Not sure yet on what to choose. Guess I’m going to try them both.
No, not with emby directly - but Jellyfin is a fork of emby, so tangentially!
And that really bugs.
I keep all my media sorted in folders (old school I know). I went to try Plex once a few years back. It launched right into making an account and setting up remote access. Never was clear what if any access Plex mothership has to my media library- does that include filenames, file contents, everything? Sorry but do not want. I VPN back home, don’t need the cloud BS.
Glad I self host all my media
Why use plex when jellyfin exist?
I’m more than happy with my jellyfin server knowing nobody can block it against my will.
Some people are quite shameless about selling Plex access, but playing hosting whack-a-mole is a losing game.
Good. There are people out there who ruin all the nice things. Just host your own damn server and download your own content like a normal person.
The fine Line of piracy is don’t make money out of it. That’s my hard line
Yep. That’s my line too. The folks running paid servers are ruining it for the rest of us.
Exactly. Though usually once somebody does, that’s when the authorities get involved.
I get why lemmy loves jellyfin…but its odd to me that plex is so often preferred over emby. I much prefer the latter for several reasons…but actually working offline out of the box is one of the top.
