I have a feeling I might be that person 
, but I definitely have my emby issues too.
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No it definitely wasn’t you I had in mind.
No it certainly isn’t. Plex does a lot of things very well and has a nice looking web interface as well. Every system will have plusses and minuses.
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Exactly that.
Generally speaking I find the Plex server interface far superior to that of Emby.
However I tend to try to spend my time viewing MY media not server UI’s. For me at least that’s where Emby excels.
I way prefer Emby Theatre to PMP.
My other main device being the Shield. Very similar offerings in both Plex and Emby except in Emby it doesnt constantly cut out and skip to the next episode. If Plex spent as much time finishing and fixing their clients instead of pushing new lame features, I would probably have never even looked at Emby.
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Yea, that’s key. Clients that work correctly and have the options you want.
I still have a lot of Roku clients around even though they aren’t primary and they just work with one package and give “Not fast enough to stream” messages in the other.
I personally will continue to run both far into the future as I like always having a “backup” system as well as a couple of different clients. One wrong update on a server or client system can’t take you completely out this way.
Yeah my backup is that I also have a mirrored remote dedi.
I think the final straw came for me in the sunsets blog. Promises of to be different, spending time ironing out bugs, communicating better. Then a couple of days later all this ad riddled web stuff. I can’t can’t take any of Plex promises seriously any more.
Then to cap it all, over the last couple of days this remote access issue… 47 related posts I counted. Yet we have an announcement section here in the forums without a mention.
It’s no wonder people are pissed off after spending hours posting for help, rebooting servers and routers then checking port forwarding trying to fix something that they could never fix. Plex.tv strikes again…
So much for better communication. Sorry but Plex simply don’t care.
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Meanwhile @ Emby, An issue lasted less than 24 hours (DDoS attack) and an announcement was posted quickly:
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Interesting… I actually like Emby’s server interface over Plex’s
Their theatre UI really shines… all those little things like “ended” tag, info links, cast blurbs, etc… are great.
The meta manager is a killer feature as well… I also enjoy the favorites and recommendations but seems many don’t
Maybe someone will fork and give us a 3rd “best of both worlds” option in the future
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Yeah to clarify. Once you’ve learned your way around Emby’s server settings, its fine.
Part of it may be down to the advanced settings available. But I just perceived setting up libraries in Emby rather long winded, compared to Plex.
That said.
The fact I can now have less libraries thanks to Emby allowing me to have a single documentaries folder regardless of whether they are season based documentaries or one off’s is awesome. The whole ability to mix media types in a library is cool in general.
Then you actually touched on my “favourite” feature of all. Pun intended.
When just wanting some background viewing I tend to throw on some of my 70’s/80’s shows that have all been watched a hundred times. Having them available at one button click is just absolutely kickass.
I never imagined how something so simple could be so goddam time saving.
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I looked at both Plex and Emby in January 2018 and ended up using Plex, never even downloaded Emby. I got a yearly plexpass, and it’s still good.
A few days ago I started looking at Emby again and said “enough” about all the rhetoric, “let’s decide via using it ourselves.”
So I did just that. Only using browser to watch things on pc, and android. That part works well.
I like Emby. I used to Love Plex. I don’t LOVE Plex anymore. Too many little things making me feel it was too complex, not wanting to lose Trakt.tv integration, nor Last.fm Scrobbling.
Emby doesn’t have scrobbling working with music right now. Trakt.tv integration via plugin on Emby is great. It works. 
In Plex I’ve had various movie libraries. On Emby I can put all those movies that are the same but different, better for Android downloading, better on my Note8, for instance, in one folder and see them for how I label them being able to choose the one I want from the one movie in an client.
I’m having to move my files for this, renaming these several movies, and that breaks how I use it in Plex. My Plex use will dwindle fast, as I use my tablet the watch things the most.
So Emby is different. I liked what Plex was, it changed so much right when I got into it, more than I wanted, but I tried to make it work, and that’s sad. The UI changes and more recent changes were just too much, and it prompted me to actually try Emby. In one day I had decided what I would do, even if I only just use the browser to watch things, there is a vastly different feeling from Plex.
I don’t like their Music libraries as much, but that’s OK, since I do still use Google Music too, switch to using that more for now is fine.
I liked the interaction on the forums here, until the switch to discord, so I’ve been heavily considering what to do since June, this is probably my last post here.
I enjoyed Plex and Plexamp this year, frustrated with changes, I’m all the more knowledgeable about my media because of starting the process with Plex. Thank you all for your tips and help via forum posts. I wish Plex users happiness and success here. I’m a basic free Emby user for now, and that’s fun. The little things I need to do to make my libraries all the better in Emby is easy and my choice of how it all works is Emby now.
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I’m hard of hearing. With no subtitles, plex isn’t usable.
Yes, as I explained earlier subtitles are universally available on every digital medium I’ve ever used. So why Plex needs a subtitle downloader is a puzzle to me.
Where are you getting these movies that contain no subtitles?
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Just wait until you start to play with the clients and no just the web browser. I think you’ll like the clients a lot better as well. You have a lot more flexibility in how things look.
Some of the really cool things in Beta are close to being released as well.
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Yeah well the clients have always been far better. So…
I share my server with half a dozen or so and one negative of Emby has always been HW transcoding. I get that, regardless of software or hardware transcoding Emby does it all up front instead of during the whole playback like Plex and that’s just a matter of preference.
Earlier today I just installed the latest Emby beta. So I will be conservative and say Emby now (as a bare minimum) matches Plex with HW transcoding.
I’m not very techy but I noticed that there have been some major changes to Emby regarding the database in the last couple of betas. I certainly have no idea what that means…but I do know that it is now way faster than before.
Piracy? Hollywood blockbuster and someone living in Afghanistan, Columbia, China… maybe?
For native English speakers its pretty useless for sure. Unless you need Klingon, Dothraki, etc…
Oh wait! It being a half finished/half baked latest and greatest Plex feature, it can’t do forced subtitles. So like I said, pretty useless for English speakers.
The good news is for those that still believe that Plex is actually still usable, the SubZero dev. has already outlined his plans for the future without plugins I believe.
So as always, thanks to the efforts of 3rd parties, Plex will remain usable and the die-hards will keep professing how awesome Plex is.
That’s like calling a Lamborghini just “a car”. 
You’ve got full control over the HW/SW transcoding and how/what is used and what is the backup method, etc. You can set how it decodes and how it encodes.
Need it to work one way with hardware and another way for software? No problemo. You can control the ordering and what/how it works via the advanced setup.
One is a chipping range and one a full 18 hole golf course.
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Yeah, I’m trying to get someone to say it’s perfect for pirated movies – but no one is biting. 
It is, lol
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That’s a bit funny. Plex won’t provide you with the media so why should it provide you with subtitles. Though, it’s nice that they do. And that goes for everything from the poster artwork to synopsis. I just hope they can keep up with the can of worms they opened up, lol
Yes but emby does a really nice interface for dvr that plex does not and has not made the interface for shield and the phone apps complicated and hard to use like plex has(its ugly now)
with no way of being able to use the previous one.
And when you changed the player and all my devices would stop randomly after 1-20 mins , emby was still playing , the support i spent hours replaced dozens of items (which i knew were not at fault) only to come out later was the player … that pissed me off as a plex prem guy
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A lot of the movies I purchase don’t have Portuguese subtitles which I need for when my in-laws visit…
