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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm a bit biased as I started with Jellyfin, but the Roku Jellyfin app works flawlessly on the family TV.

I'd advise at least becoming mildly familiar with how you'd go about it, since corpos suddenly rug-pulling existing users and forcing subscriptions is pretty common, basically expected, behavior of American business now.

That way you have an "out" and your service can have minimal downtime. :)

On the other hand, you might just find you like how sleek and functional Jellyfin is. I can only see wins for you here. :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

Yeah I suspect I’m going to like it.

I think I’m going to set it up to run in parallel, then I’ll be ready to try it on people’s various devices as I get access to them.