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Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?! (vger.social)

submitted 1 year ago by aeharding@vger.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jellyfin is still not up to snuff with where Plex was pre-enshittification, but Plex is enshittified. For everyone in between, there’s Emby, which I have been very happy with.

[–] heschlie@lemmy.schlunker.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd have to agree with this, there was a time where Plex was amazing. after like the 3rd time I was forced stop it from hiding my library and them pushing services in my face I made the switch to Jellyfin. It's been long enough now that I don't recall the features I miss, and overall Jellyfin is fine, and seems to get better pretty consistently.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

after like the 3rd time I was forced stop it from hiding my library and them pushing services in my face

Seeing shit like this makes me wonder what different Plex I'm using from everyone else. Pinned my local library at the top 4 years ago and now every device shows that tab first when logging in and hasn't ever behaved differently except when the home server is down (it'll still go to the tab but read OFFLINE)

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

what are the things i will miss from plex's pre-enshittification?

[–] Rexios@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You people do realize that you can use the Plex server without using the Plex apps right? I pretty much exclusively use Infuse to interface with my Plex server and have none of the issues I see mentioned here.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean you very much still have the privacy issues and online requirements. And if you’re not even using the plex web client or any of the apps, all Infuse is using plex for is the metadata, at which point you might as well just use the Jellyfin back end.