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If you have experience with Jellyfin and don't mind me asking, if i have Plex pass is there any reason to switch to Jellyfin? I have never even looked at Jellyfin but i keep seeing people talk about it as a Plex replacement.
If you haven't run into any concrete issues with Plex and don't mind the cost, there's probably no reason to switch.
Reasons I switched:
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I didn't sign up for Plex when I realized I had to pay to use media on my own network. I can use many other media players that don't cost anything.
Well cost is not a factor for me. I'm a lifetime Plex pass member. Probably why i didn't notice a lot of what people are mentioning about Plex. I don't use it a ton really anymore as i don't watch a ton of TV and kids are grown.
The biggest reason for me was that Jellyfin is fully open source.
The second reason for me was advertising inside Plex, and generally a UI focused on what they want me to see instead of what I want to do. Jellyfin isn’t a commercial product so it won’t get enshittified over time.
Third reason for me was UI, they kept changing it so that it highlights their shitty partners' content. Very confusing for the guests.
i should give jellyfin another shot, its been some years. When i tried it last, it was not a nice experience. But i refused to use plex after it required login for even offline access (i wonder how many people remember that. If you lost internet access, you couldnt watch plex)
so i switched to Emby, which is still closed source, but didnt have the bullshit plex requirements. The advantage was [sic] that being closed it could offer proprietary stuff like codecs or DTS. (dts and similar were only available on plex and on nVidia TV device)
Everything i do (as much as possible) is oss, but some things just cant.
Ill try jellyfin again in the next month or so and see how its doing.
That's actually how I went, through Plex, then Emby and now Jellyfin since last reinstall, with a brief detour through Servio.
I don't begrudge Emby for trying to make money but it leaves a bad taste when a project starts at open source, builds up features on volunteer work, then takes those features behind paywall. And at the end of the day the Emby experience is not that much more polished than Jellyfin, which is ridiculous. At least Plex offers a smooth experience for the money.
Servio is very basic compared to these three but some people like that about it. If you don't want to bother with any niceties and just want something where you dump files and play them it might be for you.
Plex has been more and more pushing their personal shit into your UI over the years.
Yeah, I noticed they added some stuff and annoyingly tried putting it first. I just hid the crap i didn't want. The live TV actually has a lot of options. I don't really watch much TV these days but there's been plenty to choose from so far. I think having the lifetime Plex pass makes it different.