Oooowhhheeee. What absolute turd of an update. Who decided throwing a gagillion movie posters and buttons randomly on a screen was an “improvement”? Yikes.
I am realizing it’s time to prepare for using Jellyfin full time instead. And I have a lifetime pass, so it stings a bit.
Good thing Jellyfin just keeps getting better.
Yeah, I’ve been in the same boat. Giving up Plex is hard, but it’s just unavoidable now. Plex keeps adding crap I don’t want, Jellyfin keeps adding stuff I do.
I’m trying the Infuse client as a workaround for now. Connects to the Plex server and seems to work.
I wish you luck, but not for me. I paid for a lifetime subscription so I wouldn’t have to deal with hacks and workarounds, and I think I’m leaving now for jellyfin. I do honestly wish you luck with it though
I’ve been using Emby. Developers there are good and it’s more polished than Jellyfin. I tried both a few years ago and preferred Emby.
Is Emby safe to expose to the internet? A lot of people on here seem to think Jellyfin isn’t worth the risk of exposing.
After reading about jellyfin, it doesn’t seem THAT bad but it also sounds like the devs don’t care.
yep, I run them side by side and most of my personal use has moved over to JF.
in my opinion all that JF is lacking is better user management for remote users. The player apps are honestly fine if your clients have fairly modern dedicated playback devices.
Is jellyfin able to use one account to access multiple servers? Or how does that work?
their accounts are all local to each server, rather than user accounts existing separately and having access granted to them, so I’d say no but I’ve never tried.
It would be up to the client app to log into multiple servers and I don’t think any of them do that without having to log out and switch servers then log in again, as opposed to plex where you can have one user logged in and pin libraries from multiple servers if needed.
Thats one of the things I wish JF did better but it’s getting there slowly.
i’m literally waiting on 1 thing: media segments on tvOS
even jellyfins implementation is better: not just intro and credits, but recaps, commercials, and you can add/update them manually via the API if the audio detection is wrong
everything else about jellyfin is roughly equal, better, or not a big deal (though i do like the SSO library sharing with plex, it’s far from a deal breaker and i’m sure could be achieved with a jellyfin plugin)
by tvOS do you mean infuse? for me infuse’s UI is too lacking, that’s the main thing keeping me from switching to jellyfin.
there’s actually a tvOS app now! the native iOS app is called Swiftfin (by the same developer at least) and has been ported to tvOS too. its pretty good; just not at all feature complete… but it does basic functionality if that’s all you want
@Zachariah @plex the lifetime pass will still be valid in 20 years when they get it working properly.
plex has been making actrocious UI decisions ever since they decided to push their ad streaming service. the enshittification train has left the station.
