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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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Andres Jalinton
there are tools for getting the latest *cof cof* Sonarr
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.
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@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 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.

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Evil Roda
You're not gonna believe this, but I have a solution, if you're willing to earn your sea legs...
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Elias Mårtenson

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)

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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

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.
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Eli the Bearded
This was about the Weird Al biopic.
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 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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blindelectron
nope, can confirm that you are definitely not missing anything.
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.
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Seasons of Jason
Thanks Veronica, appreciate your reply.
Time allowing, I might just spin it up and compare both for awhile.
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Spaced Goat
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.
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Sir Dippingsauce
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 friend that owns over 2000 Blue Rays. He buys them from the clearance isle or online for often around 1-5 euro a piece.
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Aeon

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 😃

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I've started collecting physical media again, and I would definitely watch a video on Jellyfin!
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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