I’m not sure what the “you have to sit on it” is supposed to be referring to, but as far as paying for, that was years ago. That’s like bragging your economy car cost $10k less than my midsize sedan five years after I paid off the loan. Like I care at that point?
More noteworthy thing here is you have no constructive response to my post. I gave an actual laundry list of things that Plex does and Jellyfin doesn’t and you can’t find an excuse for any of them after claiming that Plex and Jellyfin are the same except one is free and the other isn’t.
Here’s a more accurate metaphor:
Plex is an oak dining room table you buy at a furniture store and pay a fee to have delivered. Jellyfin is a table you buy at IKEA and assemble yourself.
“Hurr, durr they must be the same ‘cause they both have four legs and keep your dinner plate off the floor.”
I’m not going to elaborate further on this argument. Just writing “Jellyfin is a table you buy at IKEA” when the table in question is given to you for free, only has four legs instead of six, and the dishes aren’t even on it yet… You prefer Plex, and that’s fine by you. I’ll continue using it as long as the “watch together” feature is there. Once it’s removed, aside from the few sorting functions you’re so fond of (which I couldn’t care less about), Plex will have nothing going for it except for people like you who cling to it. (And I won’t call you a clown for it.)
I’m not saying you’re a clown for liking Jellyfin more than Plex. I run both and there are things that are better in Jellyfin even, when it comes to metadata. I’m saying you’re a clown for oversimplifying two products to their most base function, and then claiming they are equal because they both fulfill the function, with no regards to polish, extra features, ease of use, etc.
Whether YOU care about advanced filtering on Library views doesn’t matter, because saying the two are the same isn’t a subjective statement, it’s an objective one. And me making a list of missing abilities demonstrates that Jellyfin, objectively, is not equal to Plex. Some of the things on my list aren’t minor browsing/metadata features. Missing direct-play ability for certain codecs/formats is the core playback ability you’re trying to solely judge this all on. Transcoding is cope.
Like many other users, Watch Together is the reason I started using Plex and payed for a lifetime membership. This feature is how I watched movies with my wife when we were apart, how I watch movies with other family members and friends across the country. This feature was THE REASON I adopted plex for my media server. Removing this feature is simply idiotic.
Each year the decision makers at Plex keep making more stupid changes to the product that actively alienate users like myself. My family and I used to love Plex, now we tolerate it while we look at alternatives. You are destroying your customer relationships Plex. Don’t be shocked when your user base declines over the coming years. I cannot express how disappointed I am with the individuals guiding Plex.
They don’t seem to understand their customers AT ALL.
still plowing forward with an ugly ui design and removing this feature bit by bit i see. i wish everything with tech wasn’t so horrible and depressing and one thing i like could work like it always worked.
you’d think “watch my own video files and synchronize watching those files with someone else over the network” wouldn’t be that big of an ask with the technological miracles abound but no. we have to have the buttons moved, cheated out of “lifetime” purchases, and have basic functionality taken away because this somehow makes money instead of i dont know offering compelling services or value adds that are worth paying for even for lifetime members or something.
Jellyfin, as opposed to Plex, has plugins that can integrate directly into it and even replace functionality. Plex killed its plugins
For example, you can use the meilisearch plugin to have even better search than plex, and the smart lists plugin for smart filtering
If jellyfin gets more users and more people actually need these features, someone will make them. This is not something you would be able to do on Plex, you need to wait for the dev team to implement/modify/improve the feature
jellyfin doesn’t have syncplay on tv apps, unless you are tech savvy and from the tests I had with syncplay it’s not seamless and it can be troublesome for non tech savvy people to use.
The thing is, I already paid for it. Plex lifetime pass costed me 150$, they increased the price for the lifetime pass quite alot since then. I’m not a pro computer guy, 150$ is a hefty price for an app, I shouldn’t lose the prime feature I spent money for. Also as I mentioned above, jellyfin ain’t really an option, no one wants to improve/fix the unreliable syncplay feature.
Exactly, it’s on Roku and as I pointed out, some of the people I use it with aren’t tech savvy so “freezing app” isn’t that simple either. Thank you captain futile.
Just learned about this today as the feature I use monthly disappeared from Roku. I’m stunned. The apps keep getting stuffed with “discovery” features I’ll never use and the good features are getting dropped?
Ya’ll are just opening the door for competitors who still care about server owners.
