Everyday it’s something new

[jdmaur]

I didn’t come to plex for the color scheme, I didn’t build a server based off how rounded the corners in the UI were, I sure as hell didn’t spend hours of my life curating hundreds of TB of data, thousands of TV shows and tens of thousands of movies to have temu tubi shoved down my throat, I didn’t pay for a plex pass for what I paid for to then be stolen from me and replaced with what some ad executive thinks I need to want!

The functionality is gone, the company has to be paying morons to run up and down these forums to suck on the taint of the company, I’ve seen so many “I have 2 libraries and they work fine” comments, yeah pal, come talk to those of us with actual volume when you’re on our level, you have no idea the functionality the platform was capable of with your 7 movies and 5 tv shows, so you have no idea what was lost. It’s great it can handle your tiny library, it used to be able to handle my gigantic one until curvy corners and pushing 7th string bottom of the barrel streaming services became the priority.

Enough is enough plex, you’ve had your goofball moment, you’ve shot yourself in the foot with something stupid, now change back before everyone but the 5 or 6 paid shills you have here are on Jellyfin, I know I plan to download it and explore the features TONIGHT!

If I like what I see, I’ll no longer be paying a dime to plex and I will be the exact opposite of whatever the hell a “plex ambassador” is, that’s for damn sure!

[cjcox]

Lots of truth there. I can’t help but feel “the experts” that chime in with “everything is fine” just have a very very very very basic simple Plex setups. And, if basic is all you need/want, I think Jellyfin is fine. Which is a problem for us that are longer time users of Plex where we need a suitable alternative and Jellyfin isn’t it (yet). Plex UI has been Plexed. Has put me personally in a holding pattern with regards to recommending Plex to anyone. Plex would say “who cares”, but I know in my circles, Plex popularity is mostly due to “word of mouth” and not “whatever” Plex thinks they are doing to market themselves.

[Teppie]

I’ve seen a few people parroting this idea that big libraries are a ‘niche use case.’ Like c’mon man. We’re getting to the point where soon people are going to say they just use Plex’s ad supported streaming and that they never needed server hosting so neither should you.

Eventually we’ll get to a point where Plex will stop self-hosting period and people here will say this is a great idea. Because self-hosters should get with the times and just pay for a streaming service already instead of freeloading.

Freeloading is another word I keep seeing get passed around. Here and on reddit. “Freeloaders who never paid for Plex Pass!” While on this forum talking to people who have “Plex Pass” right beside their name. Of course everything wrong with Plex this past month gets reduced to to a single intentionally obtuse claim that it’s just “Freeloaders” who are upset.

It’s awful. On one hand we have statements from the company that they’ll fix what’s broken (But not roll it back), and on the other we have people who are explaining to us that we’re entitled to expect anything for the raised subscription costs. As if we should be honored to get anything at all in the first place.

[fig2k4]

What’s missing from Jellyfin that you need?

The only problem I had is with clients locating the server. Plex provides a sort of relay that allows the clients to find the server. I now use dynamic DNS with a subdomain and just pass the URL on to anybody I’m sharing with. It works just fine.

Other than that, Jellyfin works much better than Plex and allows direct play on a lot of devices that Plex needs to transcode for.

The admin dashboard is so much better, with just about everything you could need with stats and play history. I like the fact that users are managed locally and it is truly self hosted.

I can’t remote stream in Plex any more, on any device or account and apparently it’s a “you” problem so Plex is dead to me.

[cjcox]

Jellyfin isn’t going to supply a free long term EPG and DVR integration with my Hauppauge card.

[firesidethe]

Smart playlists/collections/etc for tv show episodes

[jfreiman]

I personally have just five libraries, with a Hauppague cable tuner - and yes, mine others in this thread and elsewhere, I’ll my libraries have 10+ videos and is 160K++ for television episodes.
Do I do share many of the dance needs as others and while I do not consider my needs niche, I do understand that not all users have been collecting as long as I have!

That said, I do like the new interface, but I agree, there are some bugs (Roku Experience beta) and features that are broken or missing.

This extends to the Android phone app in particular.

My biggest gripe is that actors/cast members function is busted for legacy Library agents - this includes but isn’t limited to MP4 metadata I’ve added to thousands upon thousands of videos. Many of which I did with one set of metadata fields for Windows Media Center and then had to update/change them to be recognized my Plex’s agent.

If Plex is going to release a new sanctioned info format and ends all support for legacy metadata, then I would hope (is expect expect asking too much) that they come out with an official Plex utility to create info files using the data already stored in Plex and/or the metadata stored in the MP4 using Plex fields.

I didn’t think users should rely on 3rd party software entirely - who knows, if existing developers even trust Plex enough to develope for the platform?

Heck, I couldn’t blame developers for not supporting Plex since they don’t have any roadmap of features or through documentation for anyone to use.

Going forward, when I post issues that I believe are related to users with large libraries, I’ll make sure to put it in the headline so others who have similar needs can feel free to comment.

My needs

An official tool to migrate existing videos in libraries to the new nfo format (sooner than later)
So not stop providing Plex’s existing functionally for legacy agents
Either add Music and Photos back into Plex, or provide both music and photo apps for TVs and streamers.
If that’s not going to happen, they need to officially support and assist 3rd party vendors with creating and maintaining music and photo apps for these devices.
And more, but I haven’t officially created a list yet.

To close, I think in forums like this, it’s our responsibility to distinguish comments from users and from official Plex staff members. Some are doing this, but other posts are vague at best and are more likely insight hostility which isn’t going to help to get the many issues solved and the features to be added.

*I just want to say voice this pet peeve of mine, why do users create 20,30 40 libraries with 1-300 videos in them instead of placing then in a few libraries and use Categories!? This drives me nuts and is a major reason I only watch content I host myself.