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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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[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I randomly tried using Jellyfin today instead of Plex, but Jellyfin kept crashing my browser and logging me out, so I wasn't in the mood to troubleshoot, so I just gave up and went back to Plex.

In the past, I've been annoyed that Jellyfin didn't seem to have an option to sort media by "Last Episode Date Added", nor did it seem to have a way to build a queue of episodes from multiple different shows. I think I was also having trouble figuring out how to add multiple sources... I have my "long term" library on a local hard drive, plus anything "new" on a seedbox.

I theoretically want to fully switch over eventually, but so far, Plex is still good enough for my use case.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

ui is not intuitive but there is nothing stopping you from having multiple folders for a library