Hello! I’m just a guy who saw plex is on sale.

My current setup uses jellyfin, I use FLAC music and 4k films. I use Finamp on my iPhone and the jellyfin desktop client.

Now my question is, why?

Both platforms are great but I’m a guy who likes all free. No farm, no foul to the lifetime pass users of plex though. But I’ll scroll and I’ll see: “100% worth it!” ; “I could never go back”. Now this doesn’t capture everyone’s opinions, but out of the features they display that make lifetime unique is Transcoding (something I think you should have a right to after owning the processor) and plexamp which, I cannot rate its experience, but from what I hear it’s solid. But I’ve also heard it’s got its bugs and downloads can be finicky.

So, as a jellyfin user, why might I care or want to switch to plex?

(I’m not ignoring the issues jellyfin has, I don’t really experience any though and bugs are minimal for my case)

(I’ve posted in this sub instead of plex because I want mixed, not skewed results and yes I’ve searched the history, but I don’t think any question truly validates why transcoding or similar should be a $100+ “feature”. That’s snake oil marketing.

  • Ejz9@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Interesting. What would you say about the clients is better? I know the UI is more polished but again I hate all the extras shoved right at you before your media. (My opinion of course so not true for everyone)

    Also download music? Or videos too? Cause that’d be cool to download a movie. I hardly go without internet right now though but I like the thought of it!

    Awesome regardless though! Glad you’re happy! I’m still on the fence myself. The sale is tempting. I’d like the ability to refund though and I don’t know how I feel about somethings still.

    • mrpink57@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Clients just work, no matter what I have tried with the jellyfin client on android tv it always fails on first or second load up, also subtitles never quite work as smoothly as they could.

      You can download movies or tv shows from your library so you could watch them while without internet, nice for road trips or flights.

      Also I use https://trash-guides.info/ for all my setup for subtitles and no matter what I tweak they just are always a little off with jellyfin, no so with plex.