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Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?! (vger.social)

submitted 15 hours ago by aeharding@vger.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

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[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I tried Jellyfin a few weeks ago and didn’t have much luck with it. I only added a couple of shows and movies just to test it but half of them just didn’t show in the library (even though it detected them as they showed in other places). Will it only show stuff in the library if it can pick up the metadata for it?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How long did you give it? It indexes the library. I had to rebuild my library once, and while I don't have a huge collection - mainly just rips of my DVD collection, about 450 films, and it takes over an hour to index everything. Until it's done, not everything shows up.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

I didn’t give it very long but it was literally just 3 films and 1 TV show

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

it will still shows stuff in the library even if it failed to pick up the metadata.

for jellyfin, folder structure is kinda important for auto detection to work.

For shows, you can organises your files like this:

series-name-a/
    season-01/
        episode-01
        episode-02

You can check out the doc, it is more detailed