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 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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

In what way?

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 24 points 2 weeks ago (4 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 weeks 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

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Realistically what could the jellyfin devs do to make this easier?

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One thing is prioritizing security. There's a number of known flaws, of varying severity, which is why most people would recommend not exposing Jellyfin to the Internet.

Perhaps they could set up a second project, a Jellyfin meta-library, whose whole goal is to be exposed to the Internet. You stand that up, give it access to other Jellyfin servers, and it handles the work similar to STUN of connecting you to media on those servers. This would make it so people could share easier.

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[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks 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 15 points 2 weeks ago

Jellyfin forked from Emby when it went partially paywall.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks 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 12 points 2 weeks 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 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Like?

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

Why the fuck are you not using Jellyfin?

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

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It failed the spouse test when I last tried last year

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

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

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[–] SpicyLengthiness@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks 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 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 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 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (2 children)

What did I miss?

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

They like completely overhauled the UI lol

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks 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 6 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago (3 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 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (2 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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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (2 children)

Need context ..what's happening here?

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 15 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago

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

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[–] Runaway@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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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[–] Zortrox@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks 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.

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

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

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week 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 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 9 points 1 week 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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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks 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?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

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

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