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goodbye plex (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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after almost 15yrs my plex server is no more. jellyfin behind nginx with authentik is running very nicely.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am still using Kodi. It is feeling a bit long in the tooth in current year, but I can’t complain. I tried Plex because chromecasting is a feature I would love. Sadly it didn’t support the ISOs of my 1:1 rips. Maybe it does now (I stopped waiting for them years ago). As for Jellyfin, they seem to have an anti-ISO stance. One of the devs seemingly (or someone claiming to be a contributor) said I should convert all my media to a more modern format and make my own menus because it would be fun. Oh well, Kodi it is.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (6 children)

i've never heard of anyone that keeps dvd menus around. like, i get it for archival purposes but i would never want to actually navigate a menu when i want to watch something. in my mind it's like sitting through the commercials on a rented vhs. i would probably store a converted copy as well, in a format that would let me specify from the application what track and subtitle i want so i can set a default.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Congrats. I'm super particular about covers and naming and the conversion of file names that Plex needed to jellyfin is intensive.

I finally got got JF up and running but still working on adding edition names to each item that is special. I really wish there was an editions field so it wasn't a manual title update. At least I can lock the field afterwards.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (12 children)

I just wanna get rid of Plex so bad but jellyfin isn't going to work for my grandma....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I understand. I have converted fully to JF which required people to get onn players, and tunnel into my network and it was a lot of work on my end too.

Do what works for you and them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why? It's been much easier for me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Grandma? Pls send money.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just got Authentik / Traefik going for Navidrome, Jellyfin is next.

Does it play well for the mobile applications? If you use them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

the ldap auth works great for the apps. apps dont play well with an oidc login process. i ended up using both, oidc for web and ldap fall back for applications. made it easier for my non tech inclined users. most of the current apps also support quick connect, like the plex link process. you auth on a web browser and enter a code into the app. so it's possible to use only oidc for log in and, i believe it should be possible use css to even hide the user name and password fields.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does jellyfin do untranscoded video/audio?

Haven't used it in years but finally building up my media server again and I remember it had some funky settings for hardware encoding back then which I didn't need because I was connecting to it via a repurposed gaming laptop that could easily handle 4k content and surround sound by itself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

I use jellyfin for unencoded audio and video on my clients that support it like my newer television, but I also use transcoded audio video on things that can't handle the higher codecs like the raspberry pi.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I want to leave too, but I really like PlexAmp for my music streaming. And no, Finamp doesn't work nearly as well or look as nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

PlexAmp is so good. Nothing else comes close.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about subsonic or funkwhale? I think I also tried a third one I'm forgetting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them out. One thing that I hate is critical for me is integration with Android auto. It's the last Google service I can't seem to quit. Might have to give up and just roll with Bluetooth instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

symfonium has been mentioned in this post before specifically for android auto. i had the same hang up with apple car play. i didn't use most of the plexamp fancy features. i just wanted it to play music and be easy to use when driving. manet finally came along for ios. though i'm still hoping one of the open source apps adds the functionality later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Oh nice! I'll check it out.

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