I have setup Jellyfin as a docker container and will bind-volume the same locations as Plex, but I was interested in anyone's perspective having made the switch in the last year or so.

What are some things you miss, what are issues/benefits you hadn't expected?

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[–] dreamon86@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

İ was using Plex with lifetime license until now for last three years but i switched to Jellyfin for three main reasons:

Plex still doesn't support ASS type subtitles.
Plex discontinued plugin support and because of this i couldn't put my anime shows and movies in same folder. Workaround for plugins sometimes work and sometimes not.
Plex still not supporting ebooks, comics or mangas.

But Jellyfin lets me finally direct play anime episodes with ass subtitles, episodes load instantly and i made mixed libraries for my easier access.

Plugin support for Jellyfin is amazing. Currently using Symfonium for my music library and it's really good, works better than Plexamp for me.

It was a pain to setup youtube videos on Plex, it couldn't show metadata but with Jellyfin it only takes two seconds to show metadata with embedded thumbnails. Library scans are really fast too.

Now i can put all my movies, shows, albums, photos, youtube rips and even comic books on Jellyfin without a problem.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried Symfonium and paid for it, but the Google Play unlock took my money and didn't unlock it, I emailed the developer and had such a bad reaction I had to report him to Google who said they were considering taking down his account. I have the screenshots of I choose to make a post in the future. But I won't be using Symfonium in the future.

I have started using AudioBookShelf for audiobooks & podcasts and it's been really good.

I like jellyfin on desktop, but the TV app isn't great, that being said the streaming is much better than Plex but I didn't try transcode.

I avoid anime specifically because of the dropped plugin support so Jellyfin might need to come in just for that.

Komga is what I use for Comics.

[–] dreamon86@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i didn't know that about Symfonium, thanks for letting me know. what a rude guy. It sucks that happened to you, I'm sorry.

i'll switch to Finamp then :)

jellyfin's support is much better than Plex, it works great without problems. i get my metadata from anidb, anilist and the other sources easily.

i renamed the anime shows according to episode order of anidb and jellyfin shows them up very well. one thing i like is how it can see every season as a seperate show.

i hash my anime files with Shoko Server and it gets the metadata from AniDB.

then i installed the Shokofin plugin for Jellyfin and it loads all the metadata from Shoko's database. i got more than 800 anime shows and movies imported easily without an api ban :)

Plex was always hanging while getting the metadata.