Jellyfin isn't as feature-rich or polished as Plex, but I rest assured knowing that I'm the one who controls my installation.
No unnecessary online accounts, just "my" media on my server.
But most of the time we just use Jellyfin. It's just better UX, even if it lacks polish. Stuff is in predictable places, in one app. I don't need to scroll past 2 full screens of generated lists with suggested content to get to my personal hand made watch list.
I'm fully ready to drop subscription streaming and go back to buying DVD or Bluray box sets to rip at this point.
Agreed, but I think I signed up back in 2013 or so, when there were few (or zero? can't remember) alternatives.
It stinks when a good piece of software goes bad, but if it does I start moving away. The thing that started me moving away was the first time my internet went out and I couldn't access my media stored in my living room because I couldn't reach Plex's login server.
On the other hand, I've had a fairly good experience with Jellyfin -- it's mostly been a set-and-forget solution.
When I finally relented and registered an account all kinds of bugs cropped up, like my local media started streaming through their server and became unplayable as a result. There was no clear way to reverse it. Around the same time their Android app started requiring a Plex account to function (not sure if that was just an update they pushed, or some flag that got flipped by me using an account once).
I think I ultimately just nuked my Plex install, reinstalled, and never attempted to log into a Plex account again. I live in perpetual certainty now that one day an auto-update will make Plex simply melt down and stop working one way or another for me. It's not really a big deal, I will just have to set up Jellyfin and live with it when that day arrives because it can't possibly be worse than this experience, right? Needless to say I will never give Plex Inc. a single penny after watching this enshittification.
I thought there was a way to disable this, but the docs don't mention it: https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-serve...
Plex is almost as good as Netflix's player, meaning completely reliable. Jellyfin's server maybe good, but their clients leave a lot to be desired.
The main problem with Jellyfin is that there isn't much money to pay for development. Open Source is great, but developing a half dozen or more clients to unfun work.
It might work better on other platforms, I hope.
I have my own Jellyfin server with pirated content for myself and mother, but I don't feel good charging money for "stolen" things.
Stealing to eat is one thing, stealing bread to sell for profit is different.
But I won’t profit from piracy. I rather be a customer in a fair market.
People are going to the effort of downloading content, self hosting it, and then watching ads?
Stallman protect us what
Plex today feels like Plex in 2015 if you spend a few minutes tweaking. I agree the situation is not great, but it seems that this happens with most software owned by a for-profit company.
Plex is such a weird project though, they should've been able to see that they'd have to start clamping down on the sharing as they went in the direction of being a more typical streaming service. I wonder, did they think that their users would just accept that? or did they figure that they could pull in more typical users fast enough to sustain themselves?
My personal Plex server is just single user and I only connect to it from my own desktop, phone, tablet or laptop, so I'm not too worried. I wouldn't mind using jellyfin for video, but for music I haven't really come across a player comparable to plexamp. The AI driven "DJ" options are a very nice idea.
Stop selling stuff you don’t have the right to sell, and no one will bat an eye at you.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b07kvc/accounts_gett...
Enshitificaion comes for everyone. At least that has been our experience with ZIRP, now that it’s paused we’ll see.
But in the case of sharing media with strict copywrite, it might be better to host your own.
Prior to this, take some time to tag your files with Musicbrainz Picard.
Plex, the company.
If this were a significant cost I can't see why they wouldn't provide the option to pay for more bandwidth, or make relay a metered feature.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-serve...
Seems to be enforcing their existing ToS, not a change to the product?
The term has been eagerly overused to indicate "things I don't like" and is quickly losing it's meaning.
I ran Jellyfin some years back, when I was evaluating Plex/Emby/Jellyfin after switching from Kodi, and I probably spent a week or more chasing random issues and crashes. So I put it on the shelf and picked Plex since it was nearly 0 effort and it made the family happy given how easy it was to use (and didn't crash).
Of course people want something that's easy to set up and use. A lot of people want a tool, not a new hobby. And the best way to accomplish that is unfortunately to optimize for ease of setup and stability instead of new features. But that can be hard for an open-source project when everyone is asking for the new thing a for-profit company added to their product.
Discord though you're very right about, discord is more MSN messenger than it is IRC.
Don't be surprised when acts against corporate interests get slapped. Be surprised when they don't.
Because corporate interests are the most important thing to consider on this earth, right? We've got felony contempt of business model laws, after all.
