Hello everyone, Plex has a “feature” called passout protection but disabling it is hidden behind their paywall. Does Jellyfin allow for continuous playback until manually stopped?
I’m debating whether or not to buy Plex pass lifetime right now because it’s on sale. But $95 is a lot of money just to be able to prevent Plex from stopping playback after 3 hours. If Jellyfin allows that I’m going to switch immediately but I can’t find any clear answer to this question. Thanks for any help!
Update: Thanks for the responses. I’ve got Jellyfin set up now and just need to put some time into tinkering with my files to fix a few metadata issues.
I use Jellyfin more for music than for video, but it generally keeps going till I tell it to stop or I have a network error. Some clients have a sleep timer to stop playback if you need it.
I can confirm that jellyfin continues playing until it is manually stopped. I once had it play for 12 hours straight without any interaction so I think it is fair to say there is no limit.
I can’t speak for all Jellyfin clients since I only use Android TV and Windows clients but on those two platforms you can tell Jellyfin to continuously play or to stop/prompt at the end of each episode.
Ah, yeah I guess I probably should’ve specified my client sorry about that. But I would be using Android TV. I’m specifically looking to leave playback going over night while I sleep because I like the background noise so this answers my question and saves me a bunch of money. Thank you. Looks like I’ll be switching!
The AndroidTV client does notably have a quirk in that it’ll stop playing at the end of a season if doing an autoplay of a TV show and playlists don’t seem to work for TV shows yet, so unless you’ve got something with long seasons you can put on, it might be best to make a collection and play that.
There’s this open feature request for the passout protection feature:
https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/814/are-you-still-watching-prompt
So I guess that probably means things will play continuously?
Personally I’ve never noticed it stopping, it just autoplays the next episode until they run out, but perhaps I’ve never watched for long enough in one session.
I think on an ideological level you should give jellyfin a try regardless of this feature because it’s completely open source and community driven, no features are pay walled.
