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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by pwg »

franciscop wrote: post #115

> "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead." This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work. However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates…

> and in Android the default music player and the latest updates of the alt music player I installed the author problem is true; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button.

For Android, give this one a try:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.van...

Tell it which directories to search (if its defaults are not to your liking) and all your local music is front and center -- and no "streaming services" anywhere in the player.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by aestetix »

I have experienced similar issues with Plex (feature bloat), and I just tried out Jellyfin. It seems to do everything I want, with one big exception: I can't get subtitles to render. I did some searching, and it looks like this is a known problem and has not been fixed. Happy to be proven wrong, since everything else about this software looks great. But I need subtitles.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by z9znz »

I don't really understand storing lots of common media. Storing your own photos I get, since only you have them. But how many times do you watch the same movies/shows over again?

Storing music makes a bit more sense, at least if you had the original media and it was ripped well. But that doesn't take much space at all; nowdays you can easily fit a huge music collection on a small storage device or even just in your phone+cloud drive+computer.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by tlamponi »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #184
irusensei wrote: post #174

I’ve stopped using Plex-like stuff. I don’t really need it because transcoding isn’t as relevant as it was before. Pretty much every device I own can play h265 without CPU overhead. What I’m doing is basically a Samba file share + Infuse/Kodi. Thats it. You pretty much get the same results. Infuse can sync between devices using cloud sync and trackt, which can be used through a hide-my-mail account. Kodi can sync wat…

> I don’t need a NAS with a powerful CPU I have a home server with i3 8100 desktop, I wanget to get Intel Quicksync transcoding to work The amount of trial and error that took - linux situation is trully dire

> The amount of trial and error that took - linux situation is trully dire

out of interest, did you try it on another OS and did it work OOTB there?

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by gibspaulding »

Matl wrote: post #186
least wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a lot of music players for the Mac, here are a few of them: https://swinsian.com/ https://colibri-lossless.com/ https://cog.losno.co/ https://vox.rocks/

I find https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org to be great across Linux and macOS alike.

Woah, this looks like a fork of Clementine! I didn't know it was still around. This was my go to back when I actually kept a local music library.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by cogman10 »

apexalpha wrote: post #204

These kind of threads always bring mostly negative comments out. So let me just add that I've been using Plex for years to play 4k HDR files for myself and transcoded versions for family and friends. And it works beautifully! No complaints really. There's clients for all devices family has, I have all my files, I can share to friends, etc... Yes, they've also added a new streaming service. I really don't see the issu…

My pet peeve with plex is they aren't really focusing on the fundamentals.

Checkout this issue [1]. A 2 year old request to support a newer codec, AV1, with seemingly no support in sight.

Or you've got the fact that plex's transcoding STILL only targets h264 (and gives limited options for bitrate/resolution targets). Most hardware support H.265 (and some newer hardware supports H.266 and AV1).

It's a product that was originally built on serving a media library and it's pushed most of us to working around it while the business is clearly focusing on other priorities.

[1] https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-support-for-av1-coding-standard...

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by pohuing »

pwg wrote: post #221
franciscop wrote: post #115

> "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead." This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work. However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates…

> and in Android the default music player and the latest updates of the alt music player I installed the author problem is true; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button. For Android, give this one a try: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.van... Tell it which directories to search (if its defaults are not to your likin…

Poweramp is alive and doing fine still as well.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by crtasm »

dmitriid wrote: post #173
colordrops wrote: post #34

Plex is one of the reasons I now always choose open source over closed source but free as in beer. They start out great but as financial constraints creep in the compromises are made that create a very unpleasant experience. For example, I'd love to use Obsidian, which is an amazing app, but who knows what will happen to it in the future.

> I now always choose open source over closed source but free as in beer. > They start out great but as financial constraints creep in Funny how you talk about financial constraints, and still refuse to pay for software.

For all we know, OP is donating to all the projects they use that accept donations.
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