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Congrats, that’s the kind of mentality that will make me move from Plex to Jellyfin tomorrow evening :)
I couldn’t be happier having made the move off of plex to jellyfin a couple years back. Plex is basically dead to me since they made their move into enshittification. Jellyfin is perfect! Works great never crashes etc.
I'm out of the loop, what's going on with plex?
As the others said below, a while back (several years at this point I think?) they decided that instead of improving their core product, they were going to move the entire business model into a really shitty version of free streaming apps. Like the ones that come preloaded on "smart" tvs full of ads and tracking.
They had an extremely long laundry list of bugs and feature requests from LONG TIME users (like me) but decided to ignore them and instead completely destroy their apps with shit.
All the sudden you login to your plex app and it's FILLED with all sorts of content you have no idea where it came from - it's not on your server, etc...
Which is all just sad, because as time passes, they'll just die off and be looked at the same as any other free shitpile streaming app full of ads, instead of what they once were: a really good home media library manager.
It got... Weird.
From what I remember from the last time I opened it, they added streamed content with ads. That's the only thing that seemed weird to me. I think they started charging for streaming content outside of the house as well, but I only ever used it to stream from my PC to my TV.
I stream from my server at my parents' place all the time. No charge. Though I did buy a lifetime pass several years ago.
The only thing with jellyfin is the constant subtitle issues for years that are very difficult to resolve I guess and inconsistent across different apps. That and sorting of non movie/show content and not respecting folder view.
Other than that, it's pretty much perfect!
Have you checked in their new support forum? Maybe we can make some noise there and get these issues some awareness!
Last time I used it, it really struggled with subtitles, especially anime subs. Right now I just use plex for media management and Kodi on all my devices to watch stuff via a Kodi addon.
This Emby user was eager to try Jellyfin, but I switched back after a few days. JF struggled with a few things and was missing some features I realized were essential for me.
Yep, I'm having a hard time remembering exactly when I switched - feels like 3 years ago? I had been watching them excitedly since they forked from Emby, and as soon as it sounded like they were pretty happy with where it had stabilized I jumped ship from Plex.
Had some very minor issues very early on that I mention only for full disclosure, but it's been like a rock otherwise, and absolutely no BS of any kind from the team or the product.
I've been wanting to make the jump for awhile and I've used jellyfin as a secondary server on my library to test run it. I really enjoy it for a lot of reasons but need to properly figure out reverse proxy before I implement it as my main.
Check their documentation, should be all there you need.
Is there something similar to plex shares for Jellyfin? That's the only thing holding me back.
Yes. That's kind of the point of it... think Emby, but some of the Emby devs didn't wanna sell out, so they made their own open source version...
Technically yes. But you have to set it up yourself/it's more technical, manual and involved.
I’m in the same boat. I’m part of a big friend group on Plex which makes it awesome.
this is a big pain for me as well. So right now I still just run plex + jellyfin at the same time on my server. Locally, all over the house, I use apple tv with the Infuse app connected to jellyfin to stream everything which works perfectly, but I have family members and friends who stream from my media library outside of the house, and they all use the plex app. I'm not sure of a way to get them connected to my jellyfin library. If/when I can figure that out, and more importantly, make it dead simple for the end users, I'll gladly close down the plex server for the last time ever.
Same here! I am going to complete the full transition by EOD!