Current stable release: 10.10.3
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Matrix Space - List of all the available rooms on Matrix.
Discord - Bridged to our Matrix rooms
Release target is tentatively mid April according to here..
Man I am so grateful for this project, I was afraid it would feel polished enough after having been with Plex for the last few years. But hot damn Jellyfin is so much better and keeps on giving!
I plan on switching regardless but let's say I was on the fence... Aside from it not being owned by a for-profit company, why is Jellyfin better than Plex?
That “aside” is everything though.
Plex is focused on making money, whether that is from the sale of your data or selling you products. Jellyfin is a community-driven project, so its focus is just on being better because it exists.
With Jellyfin, it’s truly self-hosting as opposed to leveraging a third party to do some of the legwork. Plex “offers” more, but it all comes at the cost of your data, or your data+an actual fee.
Jellyfin is available directly on most newer TV stores, iOS/Apple TV, Android, Chromecast, Fire stick, and Roku. It already takes some work to set up your media library in the relevant structures, so if you’re going to do the work anyway for a self-hosting option, why pay Plex extra for what Jellyfin can do for free since it is an open-source project?
Their Roku devs are super responsive in their discord too. So much so it makes you wonder how they keep from burning out.
Always chugging away at fixes and then new feature requests.
Pretty impressive
🤘 Enjoy
And there’s one of them. A wild Jellyfin Roku dev appears
There's a few reasons, but number one for me is how incredibly clean the UI is.
Plex is a mess. Half of it is just premium shit they're trying to convince you to use. The actual "stream my own media" functionality is buried at the bottom of the menus.
Trying to get nontechnical family to use Plex was always a challenge, just because of how busy it is. I've never had this problem since moving to Jellyfin.
The biggest reason I use jellyfin: you don't need to pay for plex premium to stream to your phone.
I get plex needs to make money. But talk about a basic feature that people need...
No internet needed, no sneaky ads
You can't login to plex without internet. Why would I tell a company that I login to my server?
Jellyfin is 90% plex, and it's impressive how it comes forward in leaps and bounds, but it's not better than plex. People just appreciate it more.
If you only need that 90% that it does (and don't need things like intro detection, conversions, mobile sync, ass/sas subtitles), then you'll come away super happy with not having to pay plex and not being locked into plex.
It doesn't really do much over that 90%, it's just neat that the 90% isn't plex
There's an intro detection plugin for Jellyfin.
No link with their bs account system, their bs subscriptions and SyncPlay, SyncPlay is just awesome, I don't know if plex has something similar
Jelly fin let's you play on mobile without paying. Plex doesn't
*Let's you transcode for free completely for all platforms.
Besides all the other stuff people mentioned, a concrete one is that you can stream TV via it for free vs Plex. Just add a TV tuner to it and away you go.
I need a ps5 app - without that I can’t leave plex
Ironically the PlayStation app version of Plex is one of the worst ones out there. Its imo not even worth using.
I can't tell you how many times I've looked up some feature or low-priority bug only to find the answer is "there's a PR for this that will be added in 10.9", commented like a year ago, glad to see the future plan is more frequent but smaller feature releases!
Wtf, look at the size of this comment section. Where are you guys hiding out in all the other topics?
The Lemmy Jellyfin Venn Diagram is just a circle.
We don't care about other topics, the only thing that gets us going in the morning is personal media libraries and software to manage and play them!
Personal media library? You mean... personal Linux distros collection?
Idk about the rest of these jabronies, but I didn't even know jellyfin had its own comm until this appeared in my feed. But I'm gonna subscribe now that I know of it!
Is there a place where I can see a list of features set to release with 10.9?
I was going to ask OP to link to the thread, but it looks like he hasn't actually posted anything after that: https://mastodon.social/@hetisniels/112044929265622327
Yeah not yet.
Looks like there's several closed Pull Requests with the tag of "release highlight" which is an easy place to start
The little fix I contributed to is on there :) https://blog.rayberger.org/fixing-jellyfin-ios-audiobook-streaming
Just donated to Jellyfin. Very happy with the work they do. Love you guys!
Anyone have a good source that explains how to setup and find safe media. Computer literacy is not my strong point.
Buy Blurays and rip them to your machine. From there copy them into Jellyfin.
You will need a Bluray reader, Handbrake and MakeMKV
In this order:
Congratulations to the Jellyfin Team!!!
Thanks for all of your hard work.
I've been dabbling with jellyfin lately. It doesn't seem to like my mp3 organization, which Plex had no issues with. I generally use artist/album/songs, though there are exceptions that seem to be tripping up jellyfin. For example, I split compilation cds into the appropriate artist's directory (so, artist/song), and it doesn't seem to know how to deal with that. There are also a few weird things floating around, but those might be due to bad id3 tags in the mp3s.
I know there are some issues with mp3 tags in some songs. For example, my wife's *NSync or N-Sync (or whatever the hell they are, I don't actually care) mp3s seem to have the artist name in different formats, so that's not helping matters at all.
Also, in fairness, jellyfin kind of got a bum start on my system - I installed it and started it, but I didn't have enough space on /var for everything, so the system started having problems. To get it running, I stopped jellyfin and just deleted the metadata directory (getting the server running in general was much more important than getting jellyfin working). I've since allocated more space to /var, and I had jellyfin reread all of the libraries, which seems to have been mostly successful. (It looks like I had the same issue with Plex, because I had moved its metadata /var directory to the media drive, but I forgot for jellyfin.)
I do hope the new version includes some features that are just personal preference, like for example I'd prefer the "artist" view to be first in the Music section, not albums. And I'd like to sort albums within the artist by year, not name (I suppose I could go in and give it the year as the sort key, but I don't want to have to do that for every artist). These are personal preferences, of course, not breaking bugs.
Overall it seems like a decent replacement for Plex. I watched an episode of the Simpsons using it last night on our FireTV, and it worked fine.
Please let there be Media Delete capability for Roku clients, soon. It's the only thing missing for the wife and I. It's incredible without this feature, but would be even BETTER than sliced bread with it!
Sorry, but as far as I'm aware, this isn't in anyone's plans to work on. I know it's not on mine. I think the consensus is to keep admin functions on the web client and let the Roku client simply be a user client.
