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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)

submitted 1 month ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As a Jellyfin user that has lurked in past "Plex did bad thing X" threads and someone suggested jellyfin.

The usual reasons are

Remote login (through their relay)
Which also plays into remote streaming
Plex Amp (their music player) is supposedly the absolute best of anything
Very easy to sign up (both the admin and family and friends

At least that's what I remember at the top of my hat.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just a slight clarification that their relay server is a fallback for when your server is inaccessible and still allows you to playback media at 1 or 2Mbps. Remote logins are handled by their authentication server which is separate, so that bulletpoint should be broken out into two separate items.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Appreciated

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I used to be on plex for similar reasons.

Remote login is still a hassle of course. I work around it with a VPN but that causes issues sometimes.

Plex Amp went great for a while for me until it suddenly didn't. The app got incredibly laggy on my phone when I was playing playlists of a 1000 songs or more. I switched to navidrome + Symfonium as an alternative and set up remote access with a cloudflare tunnel.