• Guido Mancipioni@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Okay, thanks to this post I just discovered Jellyfin and though I haven’t even downloaded it yet because I’m on mobile, i tabbed back over here from reading their description page to thank you for this.

    I’ve been looking for other solutions but none of them seemed to be incredibly well supported or implemented

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        10 months ago

        I’m still waiting for it to be up to par, I have jellyfin on the server and I check it maybe once a month with the latest version but it still fails miserably with my library.

        It’s a very clean high organized library managed by sonarr. All Files are in

        “series name (year) > Season xx > series name SxxExx (episode title)”

        format and yet it still just fails miserably at matching so much of my content (its a rather massive library) especially on anime. Half the time I have to manually match it, and I have to use the Japanese title in order to pull up the English metadata, because that makes sense.

        Playback also just… Fails for no reason on tons of my devices. It’s been getting better recently but until it’s on par with Plex I am not leaving sadly

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          10 months ago

          If it fails on anime maybe someone (such as yourself) needs to do the leg work and set build a database for it to match against?

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            10 months ago

            You know that product you don’t like and have a fine, working alternative for?

            You should do hundreds of hours of volunteer work to use the product you don’t like, that way it’s slightly less inconvenient.

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              10 months ago

              The point stands: open source products are only good because people make them good.

              If you want to put your eggs in the closed sourced paid basket, by all means go ahead. Plex will still bite you, eventually, just like every other for profit business does.

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                  10 months ago

                  No, and thank fuck for that. I don’t think Plex would end up that bad.

                  I hope.

                  Edit: Also it isn’t “doomer” to say that for profit businesses almost always end up screwing their users over eventually. Usually it happens after the business is sold.

                  Plex has already deprecated the original Android app which had a “lifetime” payment.

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                    10 months ago

                    i paid for a lifetime subscription in like 2016 and i still use and install apks downloaded direct from the official forums for the android app on my shield. nothing has been deprecated at all.

                    you can prefer jellyfin, that’s fine, but making stuff up to scare others is just wildass doomer shit.

                    it’s a media player. if they go under or get too shitty, i’ll use a different media player. for now, and the foreseeable future, plex is miles ahead of the competition.