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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
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[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Despite all of this, I haven’t completely abandoned Plex.

Plexamp remains one of the best self-hosted music applications I’ve ever used.

Lyrion, Music Assistant, and Navidrome are all solid options. And Jellyfin also supports music hosting, along with FinAmp, which has similar functionality to PlexAmp (maybe not as good, but download functionality works).

Personally, I abandoned PlexAmp. Wasn't worth keeping with the rest and it has been downhill since the loss of Tidal integration. Navidrome clients work great, have solid radio and discovery features for large collections, and support local downloading for on the go.

And for local listening, I'd argue that Lyrion with Blissmix or LastFM "Don't Stop the Music" plugins are as good and sometimes better than PlexAmp. And Navidrome and/or Music Assistant with AudioMuse-AI plugin utterly destroys PlexAmp's radio/DJ functionality. Install AudioMuse, scan your library and go, it just works. Especially with recent builds having native Linux, Mac, and Windows now (I deployed with Docker compose before these options were available).

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago

mpd server. Although mainly, so I can use the beautifully named ncmpdcpp client

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Does Volumio suit your needs? I haven't used Plex audio to compare

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

Not for me, but I could see the appeal for some.

I have Wiim Pro and Wiim Pro Pluses in every room in my house that I’d stream to, and send via Squeezelite or DLNA (with Chromecast and AirPlay as available, but IMO inferior options). Plus virtual squeezelite software allows for local PC play the same way if needed (wife uses this on her Mac Mini, I don’t generally play music on my PC, just direct via the Wiim to my amp).

I predominantly use Lyrion, but my wife convinced me to try Music Assistant and it’s growing on me. MA has a lot of options for sending the audio, as well as various DSP, normalization, and crossfade functionality.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

FinAmp and its beta rewrite don’t really come close to PlexAmp in terms of functionally or polish, but if anyone switched from Plex to Jellyfin and wants a nice aesthetic music player app Discrete has done the job for me. It’s essentially an Apple Music clone so it looks nice and navigates well.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

TBH I don’t recommend FinAmp, but it’s an option if you only want to deal with Jellyfin and not run multiple servers.

Lyrion (LMS) and Navidrome server/clients though, absolutely. They’re great.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If anyone goes with finamp, sign up for the test version as it's UI is significantly better than stable.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The UI is objectively better but it still looks like a 10 year old material UI student project. I’ve been keeping an eye on it but it might not be worth giving up the stability for

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

Lol 'i didnt rage quit and post about it'

'I rage quit amd wrote a blog about it'

[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (62 children)

This article doesn't mention the limitations of remote access for Jellyfin, which requires some tricks like reverse proxy or Tailscale. I think Jellyfin is a great option if you only watch/listen on your home network, but if anyone wants to replicate the remote access capabilities of Plex, I typically warn them they are going to have to roll their sleeves up.

[–] jumponboard@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

If you can spin up a podman container, you can use a caddyfile. Hell, if you can nano and read, you can set uo a caddyfile.

[–] szszl@szmer.info 3 points 3 hours ago

There are literaly zero limitations by Jellyfin to remotely access your media. You are free to access your instance in any way you want. Fuck plex

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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 12 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

Side question here: how big is your storage pool for those of you that runs a jellyfin server?

I just started a Jellyfin server, but with the current hdd prices, it fills up fast and I need to manage my library a lot more than I'd like

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

6 x 4 TB HDDs, got them used for $40 each

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

a random collection of NVMEs, SSDs and HDDs in my desktop PC, totallying about 12TB-ish I think. That's for TV and films, I keep my music in navidrome since Jellyfin has (used to have?) serious issues streaming music, in particular only ever being able to play the first track of an album, no matter what the client.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

How many hours when you got them?

The one I find have a high number of hours

[–] hiddenSin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

3 x 16Tb Seagate disks. One is for parity. So around 29Tb of space. Got them used about 2 years ago.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

When you got them, how many hours were they at?

The HDD I see around me have 60k hours ++ so I am a bit frisky considering what they ask for

[–] shaztopher@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 minutes ago

lol that’s almost 7 years? Insane they lasted that long to begin with

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

1TB HDD, 80% full :') Although I'm using a laptop as a server, so my options are a little limited

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

I mean, I've been running lots of services on 256GB, but none of them were media servers haha.

My current ARR stack is a share of 1TB on a 2TB SSD, so I get you.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I have a 5 TB NAS (technically 4x2 TB of SSDs in RAID5, plus float space for backups of my servers), but it's shared for music, video, books and audiobooks, and retro game ROMs, plus other necessities (personal documents and such). Those disks were $600 at the time total. Now would cost $2k ($500 each), it's insane.

I mostly enjoy older stuff, and don't bother with 4k. I let the TV upscale it, don't really care. Looks like I've got about 1.5 TB worth of video (movies, TV, and anime) at the moment, plus another 1.4 TB of music.

If I need to, I can add some additional storage via dual NVMe slots on the NAS, but I don't think it's currently worth it at today's prices. I still have a bit over 1 TB free, will keep it that way likely.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

80TB array here. I've recently started using Maintainerr to delete things my friends and family request via seerr if it goes unwatched. I deleted over 15TB of things that was requested but never watched, a lot of entire shows of multiple seasons where someone only watched 2 episodes. (this was years of request history it ran over)

It was that or spending money on more 20TB drives and I just don't have it in me to spend that money with current prices.

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[–] determinist@kbin.earth 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

10TB. 80% full. I have 2TB that I can add if I need. At this point I've maintained 80% for about 1 year.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

10TB was pocket change not too long ago, now it's so expensive. Unreal.

I'm lucky because my TV is 1080p so i can download lower resolution movies and series.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Even with a 4k TV, 1080p is fine. Most TVs these days will upscale 1080p and 480p content, and even if not, 4k is an exact integer scale of 1080p (3840x2160 is 2x 1920x1080).

4k content is a bit sharper, but I can barely notice the difference, in games or video content at TV viewing distance.

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[–] GTKashi@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I got the Plex lifetime pass like 10 years ago, but just switched to Jellyfin over the weekend. It felt like every week Plex was asking me to re-pick my home page list and just insisted on re-adding their live streaming junk. Got tired of it. Reverse proxy is not hard to set up, and while there’s some encoding kinks to work out, it’s not like Plex was immune to those problems either.

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