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Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by wussboy »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #152
wussboy wrote: post #86

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I switched to Jellyfin because Plex refuses to just show me the files in my directory. Why can’t you just let me have a directory view? Makes my blood boil just topping it out.

What? You can. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200392126-using-the-library... > The Folders option is available for all media types, and lets you browse the media folder structure directly based on the folder hierarchy on disk. Browse By Folder is a sticky setting, letting you use Grid, List, or Summary view to browse your drive’s directory structure.

That view will show you all the media it recognized in a folder view. If you have any files that it does not recognize, it will not show them. You’re out of luck off you have something unusual (like a downloaded Rugby Union game). It. Will. Not. Show. It.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

wussboy wrote: post #191
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #152

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What? You can. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200392126-using-the-library... > The Folders option is available for all media types, and lets you browse the media folder structure directly based on the folder hierarchy on disk. Browse By Folder is a sticky setting, letting you use Grid, List, or Summary view to browse your drive’s directory structure.

That view will show you all the media it recognized in a folder view. If you have any files that it does not recognize, it will not show them. You’re out of luck off you have something unusual (like a downloaded Rugby Union game). It. Will. Not. Show. It.

I have videos that I've pulled down with youtube-dl in mine. Like random 'let's plays', random concert footage, one off JRE episodes, etc. I put them in "videos".

I've accidentally put TV shows in the movies category and had them not show like you describe.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by oliwarner »

flatiron wrote: post #36
oliwarner wrote: post #29

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You can actually toggle them all off in the settings. You'll never see them in a client after that. I have no problem with Plex doing this. They're trying to show value for a service rather than just gatekeeping premium convenience features. My problem with Plex is the utter distain they show for users by not having any sort proper bug triage. Users throw themselves at a forum that staff members rarely interact with.…

This is a surprising comment! I have a lifetime plex pass from probably 8 years ago. They had a bad release a few years ago that broke some stuff. Made a post. They asked for logs and I uploaded them and they pushed a new build with a fix the next day. Only time I’ve interacted with them and it was super pleasant. My main consumers and my friends with young kids with kid shows and plex runs everywhere and even small…

The log handling is one aspect of how poorly Discourse is failing them here. A proper bug triage system would solicit the information they needed at the time of posting. It would also do a better job of filtering out duplicates. That their employees have to go round and do these janitorial jobs manually is a waste of everybody's time.

But there are so many widespread issues that appear ignored. Things like AMD VCN support, Android clients forcing transcoding on some streams. The problem get acknowledged but there's no easy way to track progress. You don't have to dig far to find others users in there who feel habitually ignore, usually as replies ~"I reported the same thing 7 months ago, good luck getting an answer!", eg https://forums.plex.tv/t/is-anybody-working-at-plex-going-to...

It's a shame because it's not a bad product.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by rglullis »

crobibero wrote: post #188
rglullis wrote: post #156

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It is not just about solving bugs, it is also about gaining mindshare. If a user comes to me and (politely) says "I want to use your product, but while issue X is not solved I will have to stay with your competitor", guess what will get prioritized in the backlog?

As a Jellyfin maintainer, I can confirm that these messages are never polite and are not prioritized.

What about the polite ones?

Or perhaps I should also add "reasonable" to the list of qualifiers? I can see that a larger project might be overflowing with well-meaning but mostly clueless people with unreasonable requests.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by cookiecaper »

wussboy wrote: post #191
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? You can. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200392126-using-the-library... > The Folders option is available for all media types, and lets you browse the media folder structure directly based on the folder hierarchy on disk. Browse By Folder is a sticky setting, letting you use Grid, List, or Summary view to browse your drive’s directory structure.

That view will show you all the media it recognized in a folder view. If you have any files that it does not recognize, it will not show them. You’re out of luck off you have something unusual (like a downloaded Rugby Union game). It. Will. Not. Show. It.

You have to put it in a library that's classified as "Other", and then it will show all video files it's capable of playing as regular media without necessarily requiring you to descend into the folder hierarchy view. I have several thousand home videos, YouTube downloads, and other "custom content" that's handled this way.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#196

Post by cookiecaper »

parineum wrote: post #45
querez wrote: post #35

In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "whee…

I would recommend installing Kodi on your chromecast and using the jellyfin addon[1] into Kodi instead. The app is garbage and Kodi is awesome. (Don't use the Jellyfin Connect addon, it's different and I wouldn't recommend it) [1] https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi

Kodi is awesome, but every time I try to use it on a set-top box-type thing, it promptly consumes the entire available storage. I'm going to have to concoct some type of just-in-time mini-library so that these things don't get overeager with posterization, indexing, artwork, etc., but still allow me to use them to watch things essentially on-demand. Sounds efforty so I just won't.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by avh02 »

raffraffraff wrote: post #113
avh02 wrote: post #101

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Because some people just prefer something to be laid out a certain way. I have that with music for example, I don't care about albums other than a grouping unit for files (my playlist is flat though). Album art, etc is otherwise irrelevant to me, but some music apps will fetishize organization by album, etc and the art is highlighted etc.

Oh man, I can't find a single usable music app on Linux. I've used MusicBee for years on wine, but I'm stuck on an older version (for stability) and now that I want to run all of my stuff on a Rpi4 I'm screwed (wine+x86 app is a pain). I installed quodlibet, rythmbox, clementine, amarok... All hot garbage when it comes to UI layout. So for now I'm still running MusicBee on an old laptop and controlling playback via t…

Audacious with the winamp skin mostly works for me, I still miss a few features though the core of it is there. (Global hotkeys for a jump-to and queue songs prompt, nobody except audacious has gotten this down since winamp)

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by Fnoord »

stavros wrote: post #160
input_sh wrote: post #150

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> but it's open, and that's how I am sure it will work forever. Why are you so sure about it? IIRC Emby was also open sourced before it wasn't, at which point it was forked into Jellyfin. Based on that alone, I wouldn't be too surprised if Jellyfin pulls the same thing down the road, forcing you to move to yet another fork down the line.

> forcing you to move to yet another fork down the line. That's exactly OP's point, whereas I can't just switch to a fork of Plex.

Aren't Plex and Kodi family? Plex used to be FOSS too, right?
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