Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature
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Jellyfin is not there yet but it definitely can be. It can be done pretty easily without any centralised server.
- Sending people magic links to their accounts on their phones that auto log them into Jellyfin.
- Make IP dictionary to have people type "cat mug door end" which pings the server with a login from an IP.
- Show QR code.
- Scan with an authorised app which pings the server to authorise the device on behalf of the user.
It's passwordless 4 word input + phone scan that can be optimised for TV pretty heavily since you only need make something 10^12 unique to account for all IPv4.
It will take around 15-30 hours to code though for a person familiar with Jellyfin on android TV and server.
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Yeah that's not how that works.
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Yeah disc rot is a problem... But luckily it's A LOT longer (50-100 years)
This is compared to HDD (6 years) and SSD (10 years)
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Extremely slow and clunky UI on Android. Music has no star rating as every other software including Plex and Navidrome has. It sometimes starts transcoding for no apparent reason.
Not perfect but the best we've got.
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That's exactly how it works.
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Jellyfin is the sever bro. You can implement your own client and choose from a pretty decent variety of clients on Android and most platforms. Only Android TV really suffers from required first party support, but the api is documented and we encourage you to make your own or port it to whatever front end you'd like.
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I mean fuck yeah, probably. I share with my family and I had to check their email for them to prove that they received it.
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Yup, took my SO like 10s to get on our Jellyfin server. No issues here.
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But it's easier. Instead of "Netflix" you type "yourdomain.com." And no payment or whatever needed, and it has the same login process as Netflix.
That's it. I call mine "media.mydomain.com," and my domain is really easy to remember.
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It's really not hard though, it's just entering a domain name. If you pick a decent one, it can be very memorable.
All of my stuff is at "thing.domain.com." For Jellyfin, it's "media.mydomain.com." Nextcloud is "cloud.mydomain.com." Actual Budget is "budget.domain.com." Enter that, then you're good. Repeat on any device.
Is that really a barrier for people? Surely this is sufficient:
- Install Jellyfin app
- Enter domain.com
- Login
Do that once and you're good pretty much forever.
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Why not both? BD for backup, Jellyfin for convenience.
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I have both currently but it's an HDD so it won't last forever
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That's what RAID is for. When a disk fails, hopefully you're fast enough with the replacement so the array never fails.
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It's only a single extern HDd from western digital
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Why are there official clients then? Better not to provide any client at all than bad clients based on the web UI.
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The eternal problem of open source: people will happily pay for proprietary software and services, complain that open source isn't ready. Then when it is, they will not donate a single cent to continue development but instead create passive aggressive posts and issues demanding features or shitting on the project.
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I've been in a multi year process to move my users off plex onto jellyfin. They just keep doing things I'm not a fan of
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In 2022 they added a paywall to the feature which was previously free to all users of a Plex Pass server. https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-sync-faq/
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In 2022 they added a paywall to the feature which was previously free to all users of a Plex Pass server. https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-sync-faq/
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Jellyfin is absolute dogshit though.
Sauce: I just installed it on my media server that concurrently runs plex. I run the app on a fire tv cube to use it... and it crushes constantly.
