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Man I am so grateful for this project, I was afraid it would feel polished enough after having been with Plex for the last few years. But hot damn Jellyfin is so much better and keeps on giving!
I plan on switching regardless but let’s say I was on the fence… Aside from it not being owned by a for-profit company, why is Jellyfin better than Plex?
That “aside” is everything though.
Plex is focused on making money, whether that is from the sale of your data or selling you products. Jellyfin is a community-driven project, so its focus is just on being better because it exists.
With Jellyfin, it’s truly self-hosting as opposed to leveraging a third party to do some of the legwork. Plex “offers” more, but it all comes at the cost of your data, or your data+an actual fee.
Jellyfin is available directly on most newer TV stores, iOS/Apple TV, Android, Chromecast, Fire stick, and Roku. It already takes some work to set up your media library in the relevant structures, so if you’re going to do the work anyway for a self-hosting option, why pay Plex extra for what Jellyfin can do for free since it is an open-source project?
Their Roku devs are super responsive in their discord too. So much so it makes you wonder how they keep from burning out.
Always chugging away at fixes and then new feature requests.
Pretty impressive
🤘 Enjoy
And there’s one of them. A wild Jellyfin Roku dev appears
why pay Plex extra for what Jellyfin can do for free since it is an open-source project?
One big reason for me is that I got Plex lifetime on sale for like 70 bucks and it comes with a discount on Tidal, something I already paid for. With the discount after about 1 year and 2 months I’ve gotten my Plex Pass value out of Tidal alone. Oh and the paid features for PlexAmp are also really nice to use for the point where I barely use the Tidal app anymore.
But they said it’s so much better and keeps on giving. I assumed they meant feature-wise
Pretty much the only problem is the lack of clients for Jellyfin vs Plex.
Honestly the clients for Plex are trash though. We had SO many issues with Plex and have almost none with Jellyfin. The only thing is Plex is a few more features than Jellyfin (one that comes to mind is an easy way to search for open subtitles to for a show without them hard-coded)
Agreed, the only issues I’ve had with Jellyfin (other than the lack of available clients), is always server-side.
Which clients do you see missing, though?
I think this might have been the case when Jellyfin originally forked from Emby, but not so much today.
There’s STILL not a great option for AppleTV. I bit the bullet years ago and have a lifetime infuse option. But that’s not really any different than how I paid (also years ago) for a lifetime Plex Pass too.
There is no official support for LG TVs running WebOS 5 or older (which is pretty much any one made before like 2021 or 2022, mine is from 2018), you can add in one if you root the TV, but even in that case it’s just a wrapper for the web UI. When Plex forced me to drop them (I had just moved everything to Hetzner), I lost a few users as well since they didn’t have clients available for their older TVs. Of course this can easily be remedied by using a streaming stick/STB but the problem still exists.
I believe from last time I checked that it was more an issue of LG not approving the app to be listed rather than it not being available. It being a wrapper makes sense too on the older webOS apps as it’s basically a PWA with some JS libs to interact with the TV.
I got a chrome cast because nordvpn didn’t have an LG app and the jellyfin client works great on that. Still annoying it’s not baked in though.
Yeah, it exists, but it’s not like the one for version 6, which is a native app.
There’s a few reasons, but number one for me is how incredibly clean the UI is.
Plex is a mess. Half of it is just premium shit they’re trying to convince you to use. The actual “stream my own media” functionality is buried at the bottom of the menus.
Trying to get nontechnical family to use Plex was always a challenge, just because of how busy it is. I’ve never had this problem since moving to Jellyfin.
The biggest reason I use jellyfin: you don’t need to pay for plex premium to stream to your phone.
I get plex needs to make money. But talk about a basic feature that people need…
I can stream to my phone without premium with plex, only the downloads are linked to premium afaik
The biggest issue I have with Jellyfin is you can’t hide empty shows, and I have folders for shows that have not aired yet or watched in the past
There’s an option in sonarr to only create folders for shows when needed. That would at least help with the unaired shows. Also, I’m pretty sure when you choose to delete them from sonarr it deletes the folder too. And there’s also the option in jellyfin to allow users to delete shows, you have to activate it per user.
No internet needed, no sneaky ads
You can’t login to plex without internet. Why would I tell a company that I login to my server?
Jellyfin is 90% plex, and it’s impressive how it comes forward in leaps and bounds, but it’s not better than plex. People just appreciate it more.
If you only need that 90% that it does (and don’t need things like intro detection, conversions, mobile sync, ass/sas subtitles), then you’ll come away super happy with not having to pay plex and not being locked into plex.
It doesn’t really do much over that 90%, it’s just neat that the 90% isn’t plex
There’s an intro detection plugin for Jellyfin.
And incidentally, this is likely coming to Jellyfin 10.9 through endrl’s mediasegments PR
I’ve been a Plex user for over a decade, I have a lifetime PlexPass, and I’ve also used Jellyfin for a few years. Like you said, Plex is better in the sense that it offers more, but they’re also profit driven, which has become more annoying in the past few years.
Plex has way better logging than Jellyfin does, the latter suffers a lot from log spam, and the stack traces it produces when anything errors out are like 10-15 lines. They’re not of use to end users, and there’s no way to disable them/decrease the verbosity.
Now that’s the realistic answer I was looking for, thanks! Open source is really the only reason I want to switch. I bought the lifetime Plex pass like a decade ago so the cost doesn’t bother me. The lack of mobile sync is a bummer though
You can run both, since you have Plex paid for anyway. Then you get the best of both worlds, and can maybe get new users on the jellyfin. If they catch that last 10% difference or Plex goes to shit, and jellyfin is a platform you like since you’ll have low-stakes experience with it, maybe you’ll eventually want to move everyone over.
Plus if one service goes down the other may still be up which is nice.
I could ddg this, but how does the remote access work? Do I need to open ports out of my home to have users watch stuff?
I have remote access for Jellyfin using a domain I purchased just for self-hosting. Using Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) and a dynamic IP service. NPM handles directing the incoming traffic to the correct server. I point a subdomain back to my Jellyfin server. When traveling, I install the Jellyfin app on a smart TV where I am staying, or connect my laptop to the TV and just use the web interface and my subdomain. I also use the Jellyfin android app to connect remotely using a phone or tablet.
At home all my TVs use a Roku and the Jellyfin Roku app to connect locally.
Almost none of this made sense to me, honestly…
I want to use Jellyfin because of its awesome open source and how much effort the devs obviously put into it, but when I use Plex (lifetime pass for $80 back in 2020) I don’t have to do any of this crazy looking text you’ve typed here. I sign into my account, and it’s off to the races.
So, with that being said, for the people in the back like me who this may look like the most complicated stuff in the world just to get some streaming started, are there ANY easy methods to achieve this such as with Plex?
This is what I do as well, though I also do have tailscale set up on my network as well so that’s also an option.
Do you know if there’s a good guide for setting that all up? I know all those words but I get nervous about trying to implement them all individually on my own.
There’s mobile sync for music, not sure if that helps ^^
No link with their bs account system, their bs subscriptions and SyncPlay, SyncPlay is just awesome, I don’t know if plex has something similar
Plex has basically the same thing but it’s only within the plex ecosystem. Jelyfin has syncplay compatibility directly?
Jelly fin let’s you play on mobile without paying. Plex doesn’t
*Let’s you transcode for free completely for all platforms.
Besides all the other stuff people mentioned, a concrete one is that you can stream TV via it for free vs Plex. Just add a TV tuner to it and away you go.
That’s always been pretty much a niche though (and I know as a former HDHomerun and Kodi user) and over time more people just stream their media anyway.
The free version of plex doesn’t allow downloading, only allows streaming. Downloading is a huge feature IMO.
People mentioned a lot of things. I’ll add that plex doesn’t offer hardware transcoding without premium. Now, setting up hardware transcoding on an NVidia graphics card on linux is a bit complicated, setting it up on windows is really simple. While it’s not just clicking “enable hardware acceleration”, it’s not much more complicated than that.
Plex has a known and very old issue of improperly transcoding 5.1 audio to stereo and dropping the center channel. It makes movies seem super quiet. That’s why I switched.
I need a ps5 app - without that I can’t leave plex
Ironically the PlayStation app version of Plex is one of the worst ones out there. Its imo not even worth using.
Can just get a Chromecast.
My friend, just spend $30 on a chromecast with Google TV. You can even have it auto boot into whatever app you want with a little tweaking.
Sony seems to not be willing to accept a Jellyfin client. It’s not that the devs don’t want to support the PS5, Sony is blocking it…
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked up some feature or low-priority bug only to find the answer is “there’s a PR for this that will be added in 10.9”, commented like a year ago, glad to see the future plan is more frequent but smaller feature releases!
I’m glad for people who were waiting on this release. It took so long that I wrote my own media server in the mean time to resolve all the problems I was having with Jellyfin. I hope they can get more frequent releases out for folks still using it. Having looked at the code base, I understand that the cruft from Emby slows down development.
Can we see your media server?
Wtf, look at the size of this comment section. Where are you guys hiding out in all the other topics?
The Lemmy Jellyfin Venn Diagram is just a circle.
We don’t care about other topics, the only thing that gets us going in the morning is personal media libraries and software to manage and play them!
Personal media library? You mean… personal Linux distros collection?
Idk about the rest of these jabronies, but I didn’t even know jellyfin had its own comm until this appeared in my feed. But I’m gonna subscribe now that I know of it!
jabronies
You keep using that word and… it’s awesome.
I wasn’t actually sure I was still on Lemmy when I saw this news. But it was an instant subscribe once I found out.
Same same
Hello from “All”!
Same.
On a related note: What is Jellyfin?
A server & client software pair that allows you to have all your personal media available on demand. Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photos, Books, etc. All served from your server to a client device - Android, Roku, iOS, etc.
That sounds pretty cool. Thanks!
Free software that essentially lets you roll your own Netflix.
Is there a tldr on what this release will have?
Not published yet, afaik
Thanks
TBD.
Sounds mostly like a CI/CD clean-up release tbh, putting it on a footing to actually focus on features in 10.10
Absolutely not! There are a many features in 10.9, check out the “release-highlight” PRs on the repo: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3Arelease-highlight+
That is only a part of the changes, there are some more UI changes to the dashboard, many bug fixes, and performance improvements.
Fantastic news. I’m only a dabbler in Jellyfin so very happy to be corrected.
Is there a place where I can see a list of features set to release with 10.9?
I was going to ask OP to link to the thread, but it looks like he hasn’t actually posted anything after that: https://mastodon.social/@hetisniels/112044929265622327
Yeah not yet.
Looks like there’s several closed Pull Requests with the tag of “release highlight” which is an easy place to start
Ooh, thanks. So big things for us users seem to be transcoding improvements and audio normalisation. And a bunch of security stuff that’s important for people that run this on the public internet.
Jellyscrub being integrated and anything towards skipping intro/outro’s looks like great additions too.
I recently installed Jellyscrub via plugin and it spent a long time building BIF files. Any chance those will be seamlessly picked up by the new version if I upgrade via Docker container?
I can’t help you with an answer, but I’m hoping it does! As you say, it takes a long time to generate
Didn’t know that was a thing. I really need to look at that plugin repository.
The little fix I contributed to is on there :) https://blog.rayberger.org/fixing-jellyfin-ios-audiobook-streaming
I got a bunch of commits in around searching and similarity. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abradbeattie+is%3Amerged, https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Abradbeattie+is%3Amerged.
Heck that I love to see it! How was it getting into the code base for the first time?
Getting the code running, easy. Getting the pull requests moved forward, a lot more frustrating than expected.
https://lemmy.ca/post/6420647 summarizes my feelings on the latter.
I gather not yet but you could follow Niels on Mastodon for updates.
You can probably check the commits since 10.8
Just donated to Jellyfin. Very happy with the work they do. Love you guys!
Same! Been using them a while, great app.
I didn’t think they took donations?
Thank you, I couldn’t find it before
uBlock Origin doesn’t accept donations.
Pretty much all foss projects have donations with the exception of ublock origin
And Scribus +___+ (And Open Camera.)
They strictly use the donations to cover their infrastructure cost (website, docs, metadata API fees). They don’t use donations to fund development, to avoid becoming for-profit at all cost.
And since they are currently sitting at ~$20k that they have yet to spend, they aren’t pushing the donation options at all.What they much rather need is actual contributors, that can help with development.
Gotcha, I think that’s where I was getting confused
Anyone have a good source that explains how to setup and find safe media. Computer literacy is not my strong point.
Buy Blurays and rip them to your machine. From there copy them into Jellyfin.
You will need a Bluray reader, Handbrake and MakeMKV
In this order:
- Rip the BluRay-Disk (or DVD) with MakeMKV, you will got the film with all languages and subtitles in one MKV-File;
- Shrink the MKV-File with Handbrake and save it as H264/H265 or better as AV1 (better because open-source and the future).
Do not use AV1 or at least don’t use it as of now as it isn’t supported my most devices. I think there is exactly one phone that supports it as of now
Eh, Chromecast has AV1 and so do some smart TVs already. If that is your primary watching platform, encode away in AV1 and get an Arc A380 for the rest. It will also massively decrease encoding times.
I’m switching to AV1. But I’ve also been following its progress for years and understand the benefits and drawbacks. I wouldn’t recommend blindly jumping in if you’re new.
I know the nVidia Shield doesn’t have it, and I’m not replacing that any time soon.
Untrue, all my devices support av1 at this point, so that’s only your mileage.
I am happy with av1 and its awesome space savings over h264.
Over h264 sure, but h265? Hardly worth it for me.
In my experience the saving over h265 is still consistent and given that hardware h265 is less common that av1 on new devices, from h264 there is no need to go h265 but directly to av1 is better if you need to do the job.
Keep h264 otherwise.
av1 is going to be super niche and never fully adopted, just like ogg was for audio. h264/265 will be the main thing going for years and is just fine.
Are you aware that all android devices with A14 have av1 support as a requirement?
Also Apple is adding that, and amazon sticks already support av1 natively.
Said that, indeed h264 is and will be the safest and most supported choice for a very long time.
As 265 goes, not so sure.
I doubt it. In a decade its probably going to be the standard. It just takes time for devices to support it.
I’m not sure what devices you have but if they were made before 2023 you likely are using software decoding.
@possiblylinux127
@PM_Your_Nudes_Please
@BluefalconA lot of newer Android-TV-Settop-Boxes are ready for AV1, for example products from Orbsmart.de like my Orbsmart S87L.
On that box is Kodi preinstalled and you can install everything from android-stores, also the Jellybin-client.Don’t forget: Jellybin is a very good open-source-software, but a client-server-system. So you need Hardware for the server-software.
You also need hardware behind the client, for it being able to do hardware decoding. Unless you want the server to constantly transcode everything you watch, for all phones and PC clients…
*Jellyfin
My point is that H264 is well supported everywhere so I personally am in no hurry to switch. Non of my devices support AV1 so it is a waste of my time for the most part.
What’s worse is when I first started a bunch of people recommended AV1 which lead to Jellyfin not working.
And you’re the norm, not the exception. Too many people choose to evangelize instead of looking at real-world use cases for the majority. I used to use Nvidia boxes around the house with Kodi. It worked but my wife and kids sure thought it was a pain in the rear often enough that it made it a pain for me too.
You don’t necessarily need to shrink them, but you can.
You should as storage is expensive and is slows down performance to do more reads.
Worth noting that AV1 is less compatible with older devices. My old Samsung TV, for instance, refuses to play them. It can’t DirectPlay AV1, so the server tries to transcode. But even when transcoding, the stream still fails. If you have an older smart TV, you may want to stick with h264 for compatibility reasons.
Also of you can stand the quality check out DVDs in charity shops or second hand online (Ebay etc). (And give away / resell after you made a “backup”.)
To keep a copy of the media in Jellyfin you need to have a physical copy with the server. You also probably shouldn’t share it with friends unless you are living together.
You may need to keep the physical copy for it to be legal or moral according to your own ethics but from a purely technical standpoint there is absolutely no need.
My technical needs are heavily dictated by legal obligations
Yeah, fair, but depending on where you are you’re already in illegal territory if you’re circumventing DRM on the discs (e. g. Germany, I think).
(And how likely is it that I 1. get busted for pirating when not torrenting/downloading and 2. will make the copyright trolls believe me that I actually legally bought this movie at a charity shop five years ago? Has that ever hapenend?)
What do you mean by “safe media”?
I’m guessing he means how to sail the high seas without getting scurvy if you know what I mean
Drink lots of water and eat your fruits and veggies of course!
Vitamin Sea ^I’ll see myself out^
Where I don’t have to throw my PC out afterwards due to virus and malware.
When looking for media online, you pretty much just need a good adblocker and the sense not to run any random executables.
The media files themselves are very unlikely to have malware attached. They would need to exploit a bug in the specific video player you are using and then exploit another bug in your OS to get admin privileges before doing any real damage. It’s pretty much just theoretical. Keep your stuff up to date and don’t worry about it.
It’s worth mentioning that the biggest concern, depending on your country, is getting in trouble with your ISP. That’s where a VPN comes to play.
Only if you torrent. Newsgroups still work wonders!
The good old Arr Stack is worth looking into.
Radarr (movies), Sonarr (TV), Prowlarr (for finding things), Bazarr (if you’re in the subtitles gang, but most newer rips already contain it), VPN (to keep out nosey lawyers).
Only the VPN costs money, and it may be optional depending on where you are.
That doesn’t really resolve the problem of is the media safe.
From a cybersecurity standpoint you should be validating the mime type of the media at a minimum (The actual magic number, not the extension). And running it through ClamAV as well, ideally, before it’s released to your media library.
You may be better off using streamio, torrentio (a plugin for streamio,) and real-debrid.
It’s a bit more straight forward and doesn’t involve all the setup of downloading, organizing, and hosting the media.
Congratulations to the Jellyfin Team!!!
Thanks for all of your hard work.
I’ve been dabbling with jellyfin lately. It doesn’t seem to like my mp3 organization, which Plex had no issues with. I generally use artist/album/songs, though there are exceptions that seem to be tripping up jellyfin. For example, I split compilation cds into the appropriate artist’s directory (so, artist/song), and it doesn’t seem to know how to deal with that. There are also a few weird things floating around, but those might be due to bad id3 tags in the mp3s.
I know there are some issues with mp3 tags in some songs. For example, my wife’s *NSync or N-Sync (or whatever the hell they are, I don’t actually care) mp3s seem to have the artist name in different formats, so that’s not helping matters at all.
Also, in fairness, jellyfin kind of got a bum start on my system - I installed it and started it, but I didn’t have enough space on /var for everything, so the system started having problems. To get it running, I stopped jellyfin and just deleted the metadata directory (getting the server running in general was much more important than getting jellyfin working). I’ve since allocated more space to /var, and I had jellyfin reread all of the libraries, which seems to have been mostly successful. (It looks like I had the same issue with Plex, because I had moved its metadata /var directory to the media drive, but I forgot for jellyfin.)
I do hope the new version includes some features that are just personal preference, like for example I’d prefer the “artist” view to be first in the Music section, not albums. And I’d like to sort albums within the artist by year, not name (I suppose I could go in and give it the year as the sort key, but I don’t want to have to do that for every artist). These are personal preferences, of course, not breaking bugs.
Overall it seems like a decent replacement for Plex. I watched an episode of the Simpsons using it last night on our FireTV, and it worked fine.
Since you mentioned the /var directory, I’m gonna guess you’re running a *nix server of some kind. I use easytag for audiobooks and Picard for all my music that lidarr couldn’t figure out. You can match your lidarr and Picard renaming formats so that everything is organized consistently. I tend to leave compilations / soundtracks/ various artists albums in their own directory and leave any artist level grouping as a task best handled by a database tag filter in the player.
Correct, running Linux. The actual songs/movies/shows are in a media array (a 15 terabyte RAID5 array that could be replaced by a single drive now); /var is where jellyfin (and plex for that matter) store their metadata.
I follow what lidarr does. Worked great so far on my cases of adding custom tracks I didnt want to submit to musicbrainz.
You probably know about it but there’s a great program for Windows (I’m not sure about other platforms) called MP3TAG which handles (re)tagging like nothing else
I didn’t, but I use Linux anyway. Musicbrainz.org offers a program designed to do that, too. I’m a little hesitant to run it on my collection of mp3s without some smaller tests first though.
Picard (the MusicBrainz program in question) absolutely needs hand holding. When I decided to do the initial run through of my library, I went artist by artist and album by album. There’s a temptation to just throw everything at it. But there are enough releases and re-releases, and instances of a single song/recording being on multiple albums that it was much less headache to never try to more than one album at a time. That hand holding is a good thing in my opinion despite the tedium. There’s just too much content for any automated system to reliably handle all the match collisions. Lidarr works because it more or less goes album by album too. Lidarr can do a pretty good job of screwing everything up though, so that’s the one to keep separate or be very careful and test settings thoroughly. I’m still finding weird ways that lidarr has mangled stuff I’d already tagged and renamed with Picard because of a badly formed renaming format string in lidarr’s settings.
The was playing with Picard this afternoon. It did a good job finding what I had, though it seemed like it was updating the mp3 data before I was hitting save. I need to play with it more to understand it better.
Once it finds a match, it will show you a comparison of the tags for each file before and after. Maybe that’s what you saw. As far as I know, it only writes the tags and renames the files once you hit save. If there is an option to write the tags before you choose to save, I’ve never seen or used it. You can of course choose to not rename the files and just fix the tags.
Yeah I think the interface confused me at first, I figured it out last night. Basically you are matching files in the top left to the top right (either automatically or manually). Once it matches it shows the before and after at the bottom, then click save to update the file. Useful!
I was having issues getting Jellyfin to update some data, in particular release date/year, even after using Identify on them and pointing to the correct album. I had to manually update that info for several of albums. Maybe the incorrect info in the mp3 tags overrides what it gets from the internet. That would explain it.
I’ve used it on my collection, album for album. It usually works great with the autodetect-function, but it gets some albums horribly wrong (or not at all), so I am glad I did it piece by piece. Took a long time, but now I just need to do it every once in a while when I add something to the collection.
LOL the “horribly wrong” is the part that worries me. We already have good mp3 tags for most of the collection, so I don’t want to make things worse. Thanks for the info, though.
It seems jellyfin is confused by songs that have two artists, like duets. It can handle it at the song level, but those “merged” artists appear (as a separate artist) at the artist level too.
And I finally put my finger on what’s wrong with the default view: It says “albums” but collection albums show separately under each artist that has a song on that album. That makes sense for the album-artist view, but not albums. Albums should combine those, in my thinking at least.
LOL the “horribly wrong” is the part that worries me. We already have good mp3 tags for most of the collection, so I don’t want to make things worse. Thanks for the info, though.
Most commonly the issue is that it guesses the wrong album release, and puts any extra tracks in a separate compilation album. The songs are still tagged right, but the album is wrong. The worst problem I’ve encountered is when all songs were tagged completely wrong (different names etc.). Happened once or twice for me, but enough to not want to do everything in one go.
It seems jellyfin is confused by songs that have two artists, like duets. It can handle it at the song level, but those “merged” artists appear (as a separate artist) at the artist level too.
I don’t have this issue. I separate the artists with a semicolon, so it is displayed “Artist 1, Artist 2” with each artist being clickable to go into their individual artist page. But I think you could actually tag ‘artist’ as “Artist 1 & Artist 2” and ‘artists’ as “Artist 1; Artist 2”, and it will show up correctly, i.e. displayed as “Artist 1 & Artist 2”, but shown in the artist overview separately as “Artist 1” and “Artist 2”. I think…
I don’t have this issue. I separate the artists with a semicolon, so it is displayed “Artist 1, Artist 2” with each artist being clickable to go into their individual artist page. But I think you could actually tag ‘artist’ as “Artist 1 & Artist 2” and ‘artists’ as “Artist 1; Artist 2”, and it will show up correctly, i.e. displayed as “Artist 1 & Artist 2”, but shown in the artist overview separately as “Artist 1” and “Artist 2”. I think…
Yeah, going in and fixing them individually seems to clean it up (I probably should check that more closely)…but we have a LOT of duets, it seems.
Please let there be Media Delete capability for Roku clients, soon. It’s the only thing missing for the wife and I. It’s incredible without this feature, but would be even BETTER than sliced bread with it!
Sorry, but as far as I’m aware, this isn’t in anyone’s plans to work on. I know it’s not on mine. I think the consensus is to keep admin functions on the web client and let the Roku client simply be a user client.
I specifically created an admin account for that (though I manage it via nzb360/*arrs) and other admin tasks and a user account for consuming media.
Just as a personal best practice. Administrator can’t login from external.
Client devices probably shouldn’t have admin privileges those should be restricted to the admin UI.
That’s a nightmare waiting to happen when some device pushes an update that deletes your entire library, or a bug in a client does the same.
Smart playlists for music 🤞
Plexamp is probably the best music app I’ve used and makes it really hard to switch to Jellyfin. Symfonium probably the closest thing to it but not quite.
That’s what I’ve been using to listen to music. As soon as smart playlists lands in jellyfin then I’ll be able to ditch Plex for good.
Any place to sign up for a newsletter to be let known? I’d like to trial moving to jellyfin but I might as well wait since it’s not like Plex is that terrible that I have to switch now
Just star the project on GitHub. They have a feed on the startpage where you’ll get notified of releases.
Huh, TIL!
Tldr of what jellyfish is?
jellyfish
A gelatinous animal in the sea that stings you.
Jellyfin?
A server & client software pair that allows you to have all your personal media available on demand. Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photos, Books, etc. All served from your server to a client device - Android, Roku, iOS, etc.
Thank you
FirstSecond update:
That’s the 2nd post. He started with the update regarding the restart command.
Oh, that’s cool (but trick play is not a very good for that, wth).
trick play is not a very good for that
What do you mean? Trick play is just the name of the functionality. There are several methods/formats to actually implement it, such as HLS, DASH, and BIF.
In this case, the functionality was added to the server API using the HLS format.
Argh, I wanted to say it’s not a very good name for that. I did not really understand what that’s supposed to mean (English is not my first language) but now I think it might be those books you can flip through very fast and it’ll be a very simple animation? That would make sense.
So I haven’t taken the time to wrap my head around Jellyfin and the Arr family.
I currently use Kodi with Seren and Premiumize. Is there a guide for converting to something to replace Premiumize with what I assume is Sonarr and Radarr? I have a few months until my next renewal though I have to say I’ve not been unhappy with Premiumize, it’s just another bill.
Completely different kind of service, the debrid services let you stream media. The arrs are so you can download and store media. I think it’s overall more convenient to just have a premiumize or Real-Debrid subscription so you don’t have to buy hard drives and keep a server running
Debrid services can be used to download as well. If you’re doing lite torrenting it works perfectly fine to grab files of any kind without exposing your IP, similar-ish to a VPN.
I’m guessing you’re talking about Stremio though, which covers a large amount of media. But will falter for older stuff, or non-popular titles. I don’t recall what it was, but I recently ran into a 2019 series that wasn’t possible to find with Torrentio.
Yah, I realize that. But I’m not against just having the whole season or series on file or not have to worry about whether there’s a problem 2 seasons in getting it at a low bitrate for my cabin internet connection. I kinda dislike having to scroll through to find the feed I want and half the time I accidentally pick a dubbed feed or a shitcam. I’ll often go on to piratebay and just pull the entire season at my preferred resultion rather than fart around with the debrid.
And I run a pile of servers already for other purposes and backup, I’m fine adding services.
But on this subject I’m far enough behind the curve that I wouldn’t mind some direction towards best practices before I go too far in the wrong direction.
