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?
Andres Jalinton
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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)
Chris P. :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣
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.
Eli the Bearded
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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.
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •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?
Veronica Explains
in reply to Spacegoat • • •@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.
Spacegoat
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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.
Norbi Peti
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in reply to Scott Starkey ("he" or "they") • • •@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.
Scott Starkey ("he" or "they")
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in reply to Jason Evangelho • • •@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!
Jason Evangelho
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Time allowing, I might just spin it up and compare both for awhile.
z3r0bug
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •never heard of it before now. Interesting. So it's kind of like, say, Plex? Just open source and has more features, like photos?
I'm looking through their website. Thanks for mentioning
John Hunt
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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.
Joaquin :fedora:
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in reply to Bobby Moss • • •Aeon
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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).
Aeon
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 😃
Veronica Explains
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