Iāve feel like Iāve used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how itās going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.
Well, I just tried it again and itās substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!
Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.
Wow! Iām impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.
Sorry, I misread. What is bad about the UX exactly? You donāt need to customize anything if you donāt want to; āit just worksā. And I dont follow you on how having the option to customize things makes it a bad user experience. Youāre assuming the native UI is bad for some reason.
Iāve used Plex a lot too back in the day but thereās nothing it provides that Jellyfin doesnāt do out of the box + self-hosted + for free.
Sorry, I misread. What is bad about the UX exactly? You donāt need to customize anything if you donāt want to; āit just worksā. And I dont follow you on how having the option to customize things makes it a bad user experience. Youāre assuming the native UI is bad for some reason.
Being given the tools to customize something by hand is not the same as being offered enough option to simply choose what you want. Having a good UX means that there was a UI designer who alread did the customzing for you and you simply have click a button to apply it.
I barely even remember what the specific dealbreaker was, honestly. I was just dabbling, considering expanding my NAS and maybe getting the gear to dump my 4K BluRays. I gave Jellyfin a try first, I went through the setup process and I remember it being a) confusing to set up directly on my NAS, and b) very ugly.
I gave Plex a try to cover my bases and that looked better and got me up and running faster, so I just stuck with it. Easier remote access was a feature for me there, too, but the choice was made purely on the onboarding process, there was nothing activist to it. Itās maybe the most user-level, unresearched decision Iāve taken on software in a while, honestly. I was already trying to figuring out the ripping and encoding at the same time, so I didnāt want to put any additional attention on library management.
If anything I gave Jellyfin a bit more of a chance than I otherwise would have because I had heard a lot of angry chatter from people about Plex. I guess I came in after they made the changes that pissed people off and didnāt mind the state of the current product without a frame of reference. I would have bailed if there was a subscription, but they do have a one-and-done purchase, so now Iām set up, itās working and Iāve paid them as much as Iām going to, so Iām fine with it. I do appreciate a free alternative existing, though.
I donāt know if itās bad UX or UI, but I do agree thereās something really disturbing with jellyfinās options and tweaksā¦ More than once I lost my way and had to click on every option button again to find a specific thing to disable/enable something?
Now Itās easier after I have passed some time in the options/user menu, but some tweaks and options are not very intuitive.
Other than that, Jellyfin is awesome and I canāt believe something as good as Jellyfin is free and open source. Thanks to all devloppers behind this, I hope they will stay true to open source and jellyfin will last forever !! But I doubt it.
