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   Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 14:11:26 JST Jason Evangelho

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   • Veronica Explains

   @vkc I've been a Plex (and PlexAmp) user for 4 years. Is it worth the effort to switch over? Do you have any videos comparing the two?

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     Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 14:11:27 JST Veronica Explains

     Jellyfin is awesome.

     I pay $0/mo in streaming fees, which never ever increase. Storage is cheap and can also back up my family photos. And I've never lost a show or album due to licensing issues.

     I acquire as much new media as I want to, and pay nothing if I'm disinterested.

     Jellyfin is exactly the media future I expected as a kid, and it's glorious.

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     ManMachine (manmachine@bitbang.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 23:23:10 JST ManMachine

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     @killyourfm @vkc PlexAmp is irreplaceable. JellyFin as a music listening solution is vastly lacking in that regard (at least for me and last time I’ve checked it).

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     Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 23:23:10 JST Jason Evangelho

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     • Veronica Explains

     @manmachine @vkc That's helpful, thanks! I happen to love PlexAmp especially for all of its "Sonic" abilities. But I don't mind keeping it (lifetime Plex pass) and switching to Jellyfin for everything else if it's compelling enough.

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     Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 23:27:58 JST Jason Evangelho

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     • Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈
     • Veronica Explains

     @ainmosni @vkc Thanks for the feedback and your reasoning. Appreciate it! Plex not working when the internet goes down is an annoying pain point.

     As for the other reasons: you can opt completely out of sharing any history in your account settings (and I encourage my friends to do this). And once you turn off discovery and pin your local media libraries, I never even consider that Plex cares about anything else.

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     Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈 (ainmosni@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 23:28:00 JST Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

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     • Veronica Explains

     @killyourfm @vkc

     I never used PlexAmp, so can't say anything about it, but I switched over this year. It works a charm, on par with plex, at least for me.

     But the main reasons I switched are:

     - Plex not working when the internet is down. All my media is on my local network, why do I need internet to watch it:
     - Plex definitely saving my media consumption history. As shown by them sending mails to everyone saying what their friends did.
     - Local media seems less and less a priority for plex.

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     Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 00:05:34 JST Jason Evangelho

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     • Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈
     • Veronica Explains

     @ainmosni @vkc That is worth keeping my eye on...

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     Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈 (ainmosni@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 00:05:35 JST Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

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     @killyourfm @vkc

     For me the final points are more hints that they are going to enshittify more and more over time. Simply said, I don't trust the company anymore.

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     Veronica Explains (vkc@linuxmom.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 00:06:29 JST Veronica Explains

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     @killyourfm If you're using Plex for your audio, Jellyfin probably isn't full featured enough yet. Jellyfin in particular doesn't have offline play of your audio library. For me that's a dealbreaker as I can't go into airplane mode. (insert iPod snark here)

     There is a third party Jellyfin audio player called Finamp which is better, but offline play is buggy and album based only. Plex likely outperforms just because it's a more mature ecosystem.

     No videos yet on it but I'm considering it!

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     Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 00:06:29 JST Jason Evangelho

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     • Veronica Explains

     @vkc Thanks Veronica, appreciate your reply.
     Time allowing, I might just spin it up and compare both for awhile.

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     Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈 (ainmosni@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 16:33:02 JST Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

     • Tobias Hellgren
     • Veronica Explains

     @thanius @killyourfm @vkc

     The problem is that I have a nice TV that I want to watch things on.

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     Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈 (ainmosni@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 17:00:45 JST Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

     • Tobias Hellgren
     • Veronica Explains

     @thanius

     The web browser will probably not support HDR etc though.

     I've been very pleased with jellyfin, especially as the chance that it will enshittify is much lower than something run by a company.

     @killyourfm @vkc

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     Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈 (ainmosni@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 17:07:09 JST Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

     • Tobias Hellgren
     • Veronica Explains

     @thanius

     What's missing for you? For my use, it reached feature parity ever since the intro/credit skip plugin got good.

     @killyourfm @vkc