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.

  • amorpheus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 hours ago

    It was unnecessarily complex to accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup.

    Please elaborate how you needed to “accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup”.

    When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.

    • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.

      They make you register with their own website to login to your local instance… That’s you jumping through hoops to accommodate their cloud bullshit;

      It’s important to understand that Plex Media Server does not have its own graphical user interface. When you run the server on your computer, NAS, or other device, you won’t see a window open with a “server UI” or similar. Instead, you use our web app to manage your server.

      It’s so fucking unnecessary.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        1·
        9 minutes ago

        Wait, isn’t Jellyfin the same way? Pretty much every self-hosted app I run uses some web interface you log into so you can use it anywhere on the network. Sure, Plex also has some pre-set remote connection thing, but from the end user perspective it’s the same set of steps. I also had to make a login for all the stuff I fully self-host.

        Is there no account management on Jellyfin? I would probably want that as a feature.