Ejz9

joined 11 months ago
[–] Ejz9@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. What would you say about the clients is better? I know the UI is more polished but again I hate all the extras shoved right at you before your media. (My opinion of course so not true for everyone)

Also download music? Or videos too? Cause that’d be cool to download a movie. I hardly go without internet right now though but I like the thought of it!

Awesome regardless though! Glad you’re happy! I’m still on the fence myself. The sale is tempting. I’d like the ability to refund though and I don’t know how I feel about somethings still.

[–] Ejz9@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the explanation! I’m curious about the old Plex. I’ve heard the same about the new though. Installed first and sure I hooked up my libraries but I like jellyfin cause it doesn’t have all the “bloat” but I hear you can “disable it” as well so

[–] Ejz9@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

User management does exist in jellyfin and you can control what library as well as ratings.

You make a good point to. Plex being for profit, can do stuff with the money. In reality, I’d be making an investment into the company which yes incurs its own risks but that’s life.

Thank you, and I will definitely give Plex another shot when I go home today! Will I buy the pass? I’m not sure. I’m more convinced it could be the better option though, even though one is free. I also would love to see jellyfin grow and although I have coding experience, I haven’t the time to invest in learning and adding to a project like itself.

[–] Ejz9@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I’ve never used Emby. I will agree though, I just need to use Plex more to not be ignorant of these differences.

[–] Ejz9@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yes this is definitely seen!

[–] Ejz9@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Okay, so something I should consider is client support. Thank you!

 

Hello! I’m just a guy who saw plex is on sale.

My current setup uses jellyfin, I use FLAC music and 4k films. I use Finamp on my iPhone and the jellyfin desktop client.

Now my question is, why?

Both platforms are great but I’m a guy who likes all free. No farm, no foul to the lifetime pass users of plex though. But I’ll scroll and I’ll see: “100% worth it!” ; “I could never go back”. Now this doesn’t capture everyone’s opinions, but out of the features they display that make lifetime unique is Transcoding (something I think you should have a right to after owning the processor) and plexamp which, I cannot rate its experience, but from what I hear it’s solid. But I’ve also heard it’s got its bugs and downloads can be finicky.

So, as a jellyfin user, why might I care or want to switch to plex?

(I’m not ignoring the issues jellyfin has, I don’t really experience any though and bugs are minimal for my case)

(I’ve posted in this sub instead of plex because I want mixed, not skewed results and yes I’ve searched the history, but I don’t think any question truly validates why transcoding or similar should be a $100+ “feature”. That’s snake oil marketing.