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Jellyfin is awesome.

I pay $0/mo in streaming fees, which never ever increase. Storage is cheap and can also back up my family photos. And I've never lost a show or album due to licensing issues.

I acquire as much new media as I want to, and pay nothing if I'm disinterested.

Jellyfin is exactly the media future I expected as a kid, and it's glorious.

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in reply to Veronica Explains

About the only thing I miss is some of the "new" material on streaming services.

But, like, am I really missing anything?

in reply to Veronica Explains

You're not gonna believe this, but I have a solution, if you're willing to earn your sea legs...
in reply to Veronica Explains

I also enjoy Jellyfin, and I have to say that I agree with everything you said.

The one issue I have with it is that the Chromecast integration is not very reliable. I'm partly replying to your message to see if anyone has a suggestion for a replacement (which will also remove one more dependency on Google)

in reply to Veronica Explains

You ARE missing things. Great things. Things worth the price of admission, truly. There's a lot of good television on streaming services right now.

But, frankly, I'm still considering cancelling all the streaming services and falling back to my home theater server.

in reply to Veronica Explains

This Jellyfin toot is generating a ton of comments and I can't keep up with all of them. Sorry!

Perhaps I should start thinking about that inevitable Jellyfin video.

in reply to Veronica Explains

I've started collecting physical media again, and I would definitely watch a video on Jellyfin!
in reply to Veronica Explains

This perfectly summarizes how I feel about having my own media server. I'm going to screen shot it for later 😁
in reply to Veronica Explains

I have a version of Frozen with this poster and this meme edited into the movie as a suprise for future me, Jellyfin ftw youtu.be/eCPjQNwdS9A
in reply to Veronica Explains

@Veronica Explains I really need to look into Jellyfin. I've been using a Nextcloud server for this because I happen to use it for other things, but it's... not an ideal solution to say the least.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@me
I've been using Plex since forever and I haven't been necessarily thrilled with some of their decisions in recent years. But like a decade ago (it seems like it's been that long at least) I bought a lifetime membership for like $100, so that seems to be what's keeping me from making the jump to jellyfin. Does jellyfin have mobile clients at all? Or is it strictly web based?
in reply to Hrrmmph

@finner @me Jellyfin has mobile clients, but doesn't have an official way to do offline media (the official client downloads offline media to your device though).

If Plex works I don't see a reason you *should* switch, but if you want to switch Jellyfin is more polished than it was two years ago.

in reply to Veronica Explains

Functionally I don't have a major problem with Plex really, it suits my needs well enough. I was getting annoyed with their drive to seemingly push your local content to the background and shove streaming services into your face, and a few other minor things. Luckily you can turn off most of those things and customize the dashboard to your liking pretty well.
in reply to Veronica Explains

I also love the small nice things like auto-loading logos, and even some chapter breaks and intro skips.

It just popped in info for some shows and anime that haven't been on air or DVD for years due to rights issues.

It makes me happy to get and watch media again. My biggest issue is that for music, it (seemingly) has no mass shuffle/playlist feature, otherwise it would be the ultimate application for media for me.

in reply to Veronica Explains

I agree. I run it on my PC atm as a Flatpak but I've been thinking of setting up a home server for a long while.
in reply to Veronica Explains

I've been a Plex (and PlexAmp) user for 4 years. Is it worth the effort to switch over? Do you have any videos comparing the two?
in reply to Seasons of Jason

@killyourfm If you're using Plex for your audio, Jellyfin probably isn't full featured enough yet. Jellyfin in particular doesn't have offline play of your audio library. For me that's a dealbreaker as I can't go into airplane mode. (insert iPod snark here)

There is a third party Jellyfin audio player called Finamp which is better, but offline play is buggy and album based only. Plex likely outperforms just because it's a more mature ecosystem.

No videos yet on it but I'm considering it!

in reply to Veronica Explains

Thanks Veronica, appreciate your reply.
Time allowing, I might just spin it up and compare both for awhile.
in reply to Veronica Explains

For all those that don't want to sail the high seas, Jeff Geerling has done a couple of vids on ripping DVDs and Jellyfin. Yarr matey!
in reply to Veronica Explains

I would miss (do miss) the ability to watch the new #Futurama seasons. And that's it. If they'd sell those on Bluray or DVD, I'd be content.
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Veronica Explains

@ScottStarkey I have a script in my folder called "so you've decided to self host your media" and it's so far about 45 minutes long and not complete.

I'll probably do a video at some point, but I need to figure out some good points in which to break it down into small chunks. Might start with installing Jellyfin server on an old PC and go from there.

in reply to Veronica Explains

What are you running the backend on? I've considered Jellyfin before because it has vastly more front ends than Kodi, but Kodi doing client/server in the same app has been super convenient for my streaming boxes.
in reply to Steve Zakulec

@keen456 Jellyfin works well with Kodi via a plugin! I'm doing it now on a media center PC and it's pretty great, actually.

My backend is simple, just Jellyfin on a Debian server. Media is pulled off of my Samba server, so I can easily add new media as I rip it. And because it's on a Samba server backups and access across the network is a breeze.

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Veronica Explains
@trechnex That sounds terrible.
in reply to Veronica Explains

I have a friend that owns over 2000 Blue Rays. He buys them from the clearance isle or online for often around 1-5 euro a piece.
in reply to Aeon

I have a bit of a collection, not 2000 but a few boxes full at least.

I typically buy them clearance from local thrift places, occasionally via eBay. Lots of places do "4 for $20" or that sort of thing (USD), and it's much more fun than sailing for them (IMO).

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in reply to Veronica Explains

absolutely finding them is half the fun 🙂 and thanks to the prevalence of streaming services blue rays go on sale very very quickly 😄

my own collection is also much much smaller but it grows slowly 😃

in reply to Aeon

@theAeon I'm lucky to live in a large-ish city with a good selection of used media shops. Everyone ditching their optical media has made my life sooo much easier! 😀
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in reply to Veronica Explains

Just thank you for that toot. That Raspberry Pi 5 I wasn't sure what to do with became my own streaming server platform and it's just the perfect answer to my son's troubles with spotify. Truly the right toot at the right time. I raise my pint to you.

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