I have moved my library to Jellyfin as of a few weeks ago. It’s really a step backwards in terms of polish and feature parity. It’s extremely annoying because Plex was such a set and forget app for me, especially because I was only using it to host content locally on my home network for streaming. I wasn’t able to move any of my metadata, poster images or subtitles over so I’m starting from scratch on over three thousand media files.
I’m glad there’s an alternative but what’s gonna stop Jellyfin from doing this same problem once their user base has grown and is firmly entrenched?
Jellyfin is fully open source, and GPL licensed. If the current maintainers start making it worse, the community can just fork it and keep going. They also have no control over what you do with it, unlike Plex which has centralized auth servers they could ban you from.
I have moved my library to Jellyfin as of a few weeks ago. It’s really a step backwards in terms of polish and feature parity. It’s extremely annoying because Plex was such a set and forget app for me, especially because I was only using it to host content locally on my home network for streaming. I wasn’t able to move any of my metadata, poster images or subtitles over so I’m starting from scratch on over three thousand media files.
I’m glad there’s an alternative but what’s gonna stop Jellyfin from doing this same problem once their user base has grown and is firmly entrenched?
The march towards enshittification rolls on.
Jellyfin is fully open source, and GPL licensed. If the current maintainers start making it worse, the community can just fork it and keep going. They also have no control over what you do with it, unlike Plex which has centralized auth servers they could ban you from.
Yeah, that’s what you get for taking the corpo solution.
If you paid for it, you don’t own it.