• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I didn’t get into self-hosting until recently, and people recommended Jellyfin, so I don’t even know what I’m missing with Plex, if anything. It feels like Jellyfin does everything I need.

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      2 days ago

      You’re missing getting to pay for it. Imagine how good it would feel to see $750 less in your bank account.

      • tempest@lemmy.ca
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        I mean Plex definitely has a value add. Around here people will scoff but Plex is far easier to work with for non technical users.

        If you shared your library externally Plex was definitely easier it’s just that they have started to extract value from that which does suck.

      • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
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        No, not yet. I took forever to manually rip what I have, which was a lot, and I’m still working my way through boxes of music (which I’m also hosting on Jellyfin). I’ll figure out that step next.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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      I felt the same way with my Kodi installs, I had a pi in every room that used a shared library db so I could pause in one room and resume somewhere else, nfs shares for media, a config file and done.

      I bought a lifetime Plex pass a decade or so ago and shifted everything except my music to Jellyfin about a year ago. Now I’m looking into dispatcharr to round everything out.