• Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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    12 hours ago

    Its free, its faster, less buggy, actively developed, etc etc

    What does plex have? Google login?

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      6 hours ago

      I have another comment in this thread about my own experience so I’ll copy that here.

      I can use plex on ps4, xbox. I use my ps4 for all my streaming so jellyfin not being in there means more annoyance for me. I have Jellyfin setup side by side with plex, accessing the same content and Plex displays it all properly while jellyfish does funky shit like displaying multiple entries for a single show (it had nearly 50 entries until I manually reworked a ton of filename shit), or fucking up and showing box art and a title for a porn movie instead of the actual movie which was Princess Mononoke. There may be settings that help with this buried somewhere but for now it’s definitely more of a pain to use.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s probably more related to you maintaining both side by side (for sure they have incompatibilities) rather than jellyfin. I have absolutely none of the issues you have.

        • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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          4 hours ago

          I highly doubt that. Neither instance has permission to alter the files, that’s managed separately. Neither instance has any interaction with the other. Jellyfish is fine for playback thus far, but it has shortcomings on library management and client app spread.

          Just because you’ve been lucky enough to not encounter them, has nothing to do with whether issues or shortcomings exist. I’m glad you like Jellyfish and that anecdotally it works well for you, but you don’t have to blindly defend it and make up excuses for why it doesn’t work as well as plex in some cases or work as well for other people’s situations.