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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.
@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?
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.
@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.
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.