Within 48 hours of setting up jellyfin, I think it might be a serious blockbuster, and it's already changed how I look at the media we have. It seems extremely versatile doing music, movies, books, audiobooks, and photos, and it's smart enough to find metadata for much of your stuff and create good thumbnails. It's the first solution that let us drop the Facebook and Google checkouts I had in and have it be remotely playable, which is interesting for me but a killer app for someone who is constantly filling up their Google photos.
The android TV app is also great, the first time I've been able to so seamlessly watch all the videos on my Nas on my living room TV.
I'll keep using it for a few weeks and let everyone know if my opinion changes, but so far I'm very impressed.
The android TV app is also great, the first time I've been able to so seamlessly watch all the videos on my Nas on my living room TV.
I'll keep using it for a few weeks and let everyone know if my opinion changes, but so far I'm very impressed.
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Been using it for years and have the same opinion.
Wish it was written in something other than .net though.
Yes, I started with Plex as my media server solution a couple years ago since my Nas supports Plex out of the box.
There are some big differences between Plex and jellyfin.
Plex:
is closed source
Is an entire ecosystem including their own streaming services
Seems to be generally focused on video
Hides some features such as multiple account management behind a paywall
Jellyfin:
Is open source
Is a focused project about displaying your media from your server
Has decent support for video, music, books, and photos
Doesnt have any paywall
If the Plex server went down, there was still lots to do on Plex and your own server seemed like somewhat of an afterthought. If my jellyfin server goes down, the service is down.
Another big difference between the two is how each tries to show the files. Plex tries to figure out what files you have and show everything more or less using its own methods. Jellyfin seems to generally respect the directory structure in each library and display based on that so where your data is matters quite a lot. That can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how organized your data already is and how much you'd like to organize your data.
Plex seemed to get metadata more correct than jellyfin, the latter got a few videos totally wrong.
There are some big differences between Plex and jellyfin.
Plex:
is closed source
Is an entire ecosystem including their own streaming services
Seems to be generally focused on video
Hides some features such as multiple account management behind a paywall
Jellyfin:
Is open source
Is a focused project about displaying your media from your server
Has decent support for video, music, books, and photos
Doesnt have any paywall
If the Plex server went down, there was still lots to do on Plex and your own server seemed like somewhat of an afterthought. If my jellyfin server goes down, the service is down.
Another big difference between the two is how each tries to show the files. Plex tries to figure out what files you have and show everything more or less using its own methods. Jellyfin seems to generally respect the directory structure in each library and display based on that so where your data is matters quite a lot. That can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how organized your data already is and how much you'd like to organize your data.
Plex seemed to get metadata more correct than jellyfin, the latter got a few videos totally wrong.
Thank you. I've been using Plex for years and it has served me very well, but a couple server updates have caused problems - purged the entire media library twice and then when it reparsed it some things were wrong again and had to be manually fixed. They've got a lot of that fixed now, but I'm always fearful of having to figure out hundreds of media files again each time it installs an update. I planned to play with jellyfin last year but didn't have time. I have to replace my media server in the next few months and am looking at swapping it out or at least trying alternatives to make sure I'm getting the best features and security. Would love to be able to consolidate software too. Right now I have four or five different apps for sync, sharing, network access, media/photo/book/music library indexing and so on. Jellyfin seems like a good fit for at least some of that.