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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.

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[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, in my example, I have various genres of music I listen to and some days I'm in the mood for one and not another. Some of those might have subgenres I am in the mood to listen to. For example: Metal might break into subfolders called black metal, thrash metal, melodic metal, etc. Based on where I feel they belong the most. If I'm in the mood for some melodic metal today, I'll go there. Or EDM, I'll have a folder for Psytrance, another for House, etc...

Rather than trying to edit the metadata on thousands and thousands of files every time I change media systems as I've done over these years, it's 100x simpler for me to just navigate to the folders directly and not care about how the system "wants" to organize it. Every media system wants to organize differently and I'm kind of tired of having to spend hours editing all my music just to get it to organize the way that works for me, so that's where I've gotten to the point of just using folder structures.

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