Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature
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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.
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Works great here, and my users are very happy with it. Not disputing your experience, just saying it's not universal.
Could be a compatibility issue with amazon's android fork? I have only used the android client on google pixel, samsung phones and AOSP builds.
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I think you misunderstand the purpose of open source. This is something someone made for the community out of the goodness of their heart and a desire to create. You can build on top of it or use it as a base and completely remake it if you want, but they're not making money of this... So your attitude towards them and what they're offering to everyone for free is honestly quite rude and entitled.
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Do you mean on an iPhone or android device or only on pc? And have it set to download x amount of episodes and when you watch an episode download the next one automatically? When I checked out jellyfin a few months ago that wasn't a feature
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I had a few metadata issues with Jellyfin until I changed the primary metadata source to be the same as what Radarr/Sonarr use so they all the file names match up and I've had no issues since.
I also don't have a notable issues with subtitles in Jellyfin, but maybe your requirements have more friction. Have you tried the (iirc included by default) Jellyfin plugin to automatically download subtitles for your stuff? Or the *arr program that handles subtitles (I forget its name)?
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I'm doing it on my android. Don't have an iPhone to debug sadly
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I've been lucky I guess to have no issues or at least major issues. I find small bugs here and there and report them and usually get fixed in a minor release or two. Once Jellyfin has Native 2fa I'll fully cut off Plex and be completely moved over
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I understand the purpose of open-source. I can voice my opinion and say the software isn't good in some ways. The developer should be able to handle criticism.
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It's not currently my own jellyfin server but I am looking to set up one soon. Thanks for the huge write up though, it'll be very helpful when I eventually get to it. So far whenever I searched it up, I just found a lot of complaints on GitHub with not much solutions, so I really appreciate it.
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Well I'll just hope you'll find something that works for you.
