Recently switched to Emby. Any reason why I should come back?

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@venrael said:
@alekdavis check out this discussion: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/302886/really-ticked-about-plex-lately-youre-a-business-act-like-it-part-2 and read for yourself what happended… further questions? :slight_smile:

Yeah, this is another Plex trend that, frankly, bothers me most (even more than bugs and missing features) and which distinguishes Emby from Plex. Not that Emby is particularly better or faster, but from my experience and the issues I reported, I’d always get a response from the Emby team (not from the users, but the actual team) and they would give a normal response: yes, this is a bug, we are looking or will look into it, yes, this feature is in the pipeline, there is a workaround, etc. With Plex, unless another enthusiast responds, you’r probably get silence. And don’t even try posting anything critical in the comment thread on the blog or Facebook, your comment will never get approved. This is so immature. I am a developer myself, and the least thing I want from my customers is silence.

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After using Emby for a couple of months, the best Plex feature that I missed is out-of-the-box encryption. Plex does it right. Emby does not.

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Plex is alot better for movies music TV series imo and it’s available on more devices but emby wins by miles when it comes to live TV for starters it never fails recordings it sorted and adds the correct meta data and best of all with a dual tuner and using next pvr you can record 4 programs at the same time.

I wish Plex DVR worked just as well as I’m fed up of paying for both but Plex DVR sucks! And emby is crap in terms of transcoding.

They should join together then it will be perfect lol

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@alekdavis said:

(1) better backup, (2) ability to keep optimized videos, (3) grouping movies, and (4) running Plex as a server on Windows.

  1. Backup your data folder … and when you need to restore it, just drop it back in?
  2. Optimized videos are managed automatically
  3. You can group videos using collections
  4. PMS runs Plex as a service

So all these features are more or less available today? Am I missing something?

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@mshe said:

@alekdavis said:

(1) better backup, (2) ability to keep optimized videos, (3) grouping movies, and (4) running Plex as a server on Windows.

  1. Backup your data folder … and when you need to restore it, just drop it back in?
  2. Optimized videos are managed automatically
  3. You can group videos using collections
  4. PMS runs Plex as a service

So all these features are more or less available today? Am I missing something?

Nope.

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Oh, just got back to setting up my Plex libraries and was pleasantly surprised by the new collections feature. This is exactly how it’s supposed to work and what people have been asking for for ages. Hallelujah!

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The world is not perfect … so are softwares … one has this, another don’t … one does one thing better than another … etc

If you try to wait for it to be perfect … chances are it will never happen

I keep Plex around for one thing atm sync … even though sync bug I reported over a year ago (and bug was confirmed and filed by PLEX) is still alive and kicking as we speak

For watching movies and listening song in main hardwares … now I use JRiver (since I keep Plex … you probably guessed it right … JRiver sync is not so good atm)

PS … originally I started with XBMC (what is now Kodi)

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I don’t use it myself but have you tried NSSM (Non-Sucking Service Manager) for (4) to run Plex Server as a service in Windows. I have also heard of people using AlwaysUp for other things but not in relation to Plex, AlwaysUp is quite expensive though where as NSSM is free (open source).