Lol that's pretty much how it went for me. One day it pissed me off for the last time. Switched to Jellyfin and never looked back. Should have done it so much sooner.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Jellyfin simply doesn’t work as well as Plex unfortunately.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (10 children)

In what way?

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 23 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Sharing and remote streaming, plain and simple. I have no problem setting up accounts for friends, but choosing your server is a pain for some. But the bigger problem is that the first thing anyone will say is: Don't expose Jellyfin to the Internet. That's a bit of a problem.

And they'll then say, "Oh it's not so bad just set up wireguard and..." This is the ramblings of a lunatic. I've been working with tech a long time. Tech is my job. It is my hobby. I do all of it from repairing my own hardware to administering servers to running my own home lab to doing open source development. Wireguard is not friendly. It is not something I'm going to set up at every friend and family member's house so I can share my library.

I've got a more secure but imperfect setup in sticking Jellyfin on the Internet behind a proxy that requires login. But this is not something most people are going to want to deal with. They want to stand up their server and then share it with people.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Couldn't have said it better myself. Very Give a Mouse a Cookie vibes when talking to someone explaining how Jellyfin is a drop in replacement for Plex when they're on step 6 of setting up remote access

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[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I bailed on Plex a while ago, went to Emby, now Jellyfin.

I forgot what happened to Emby, but I do recall some enshittification, and bounced. Jellyfin seems pretty solid.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago

Jellyfin forked from Emby when it went partially paywall.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I recently tested Jellyfin again and still miss a lot of features I like with Plex. I am a former Emby user and I don’t see why Jellyfin got so popular. I really want it to succeed, though

[–] svddendesire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is 100% free and open-source, it may miss some features but nothing behind a paywall. We made the choice of open-source over features (I can understand people going with plex, but I'm happy with jf)

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Like?

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Why the fuck are you not using Jellyfin?

Seriously, the setup is really easy and it just fucking works.

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 22 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It failed the spouse test when I last tried last year

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Genuine question - what aspect of it didn't work for them?

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[–] SpicyLengthiness@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because it fucks up subtitles on their Nvidia Shield and firestick apps, and has issues with transcoding too. If you're purely using the desktop app, or browser then it's better. But Plex just works in every aspect. Subtitles, transcoding, sharing libraries. Have had no issues or weird bugs. Anytime I try JF I have to dive deep into resolving bugs, some of which are unsolvable by me.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been using Jellyfin on both the Fire Stick and Sheild for over 2 years and haven't encountered any issues with transcoding, subtitles, or anything else. You just launch the app and everything just works. And I've got a couple of very non technical remote users who have been using it flawlessly.

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[–] killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

moved to jellyfin after plex was an absolute nightmare to setup on linux.

jellyfin is just so easy to use and like you said, just works

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What did I miss?

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 23 points 2 days ago (5 children)

They like completely overhauled the UI lol

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The thing about the redesign that irks me the most is that browsing your own personal library is unnecessarily convoluted the way it’s now organized. It’s a big step backwards in terms of navigation.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 2 days ago

this is because your own personal library does not make them money.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago

Oh dude this pisses me off SO MUCH!!! MY DAMN content should be front and center, not your stupid ads.

And now we are on jellyfin and scrapped plex. Fuck them.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

I switched off like 2 years ago because of how many clicks it took to get to my things.

Cant imagine how bad it is now.

[–] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like many others, I switched to Jellyfin years ago. It is way, way better for me. It does what it says on the tin, sometimes more, but not less.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean you don't like recommendations by default of the media you downloaded because you know exactly what you want to watch?

I really never understood that.

My assumption is that it's a bridge to some sort of legitimacy like a movie rental deal or something. Like inserting ads into your self hosted media.

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have Jellyfin in parallel now and I had to face the family during summer with questions like “why I cant do this with the app anymore “ “ why did you change it” sigh 😔 so I started to put energy on jelly because that was unacceptable way to rollout a botched change.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is why I have Plex, emby, and jellyfin running in tandem. Plex still makes my life easier than the other two in a lot of ways, but it's been slipping for years. Once I've finally had enough, jellyfin all the way.

[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm running jellyfin, can't recommend it enough. It's been catching up quite steadily to Plex and I still control everything. Can't complain about that.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It’s now no longer possible to manually refresh libraries from the app. Amazing. Less functionality.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Man it's a real shame that Kevin Spacey being Kevin Spacey ruined that great show for me

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He’s a great actor and he’s a piece of shit person.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Need context ..what's happening here?

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ig they're rolling it out in waves, they decided to overhaul their app UI...for the worse IMO

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

My wife likes the new UI, personally I'm indifferent

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[–] Runaway@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plex did an update that took the perfectly good UI and fucked it hard, removed features, and generally is shit

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Crap, I still haven't logged ba k in since they asked me to log out because of the security compromise. I'm gonna have to lose a day and figure out this whole jellyfin thing I guess.

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

Plex amp is still better than finamp for now. But it's catching up that's for sure.

[–] Zortrox@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago

I was in a previous update wave, and it made me switch to Jellyfin too. I cast from my phone to my TV, and they did something that made subtitles basically impossible to load via Chromecast. Even trying to automatically burn in subtitles didn't work for this mode.

Also, while a "minor" nitpick, Chromecast used to show random movie/TV show posters when you connected and also show the media details when you selected something, now it just shows a big PLEX logo all the time unless playing something.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Probably like 2–3 years ago I switched from Plex to Emby because the Plex app on my TV was becoming bloated and slow.

Even back then my TV was hitting 5 years old and still working great. Why the hell should I be forced to scrap a perfectly good television just because some corpo wants to ship overly bloated apps with too many animations?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm not sure I can switch. I have too many friends linked to my server and a decade-ish of watched data.

I know many people watch from TV apps and Chromecasts and I don't know if there's an app for every TV brand for jellyfin or emby or whatever.

People watch from all sorts of weird devices. I got push back when I forced SSL because at least one person had a TV so old that it didn't support doing SSL for Plex. It took me a week to drill it into their brain that I'm not going to change it back and to go buy literally anything to make it work (Chromecast type thing). I think their ended up buying a Roku.

This is just the brainpower that most of the people I share with, have. They just want easy. I do all the hard work in the background and their life is easy.

I can't imagine how many would have a fit if I forced them off Plex. Jellyfin looks cool and all, but it's unlikely I'll be able to move anytime soon.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do you let other people dictate how you run your media server?

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 1 day ago

You can run Jellyfin side by side and slowly migrate everyone, starting from the most intelligent users (so you can catch anything that might be wrongly configured, etc.).

In the meantime, I hope that so many users are switching that we're going to get better native apps.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I switched to Emby. Which I now access via SenPlayer. Am I doing this right?!?!

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 5 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Am I doing this right

Well if you ask me, not really, I disavowed emby years ago and afaic its just Plex and Jellyfin in this space to me

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