Jellyfin is Better than Plex and Emby | How to Use Jellyfin to Organize Your Media

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Jellyfin is a program to organize your media. It's similar to Emby and Plex, but it's totally free... even the premium features are completely free. It has a great community and tons of plugins. So, it's what I use to organize movies, anime, shows, etc. It can do music and audiobooks as well.

Lastly, you can install an opensubtitles plugin that automagically downloads subs for your shows. Here's the links:

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[kookiespace]

Jellyfin is such an impressive project. especially because the emby dude was kind of a dick and taunted the free software community with "oh you have no idea how much work it is" and then fucking blew his project away. Because turns out 10 people doing something together in the open is better than one guy doing something alone in secret

[GusStclair-ocxh]

I've been wanting to build a small home server for Jellyfin for a while now. Glad to see other people are into is as much as I am! Great work from the Open Source community!

[swirl]

As a hardcore user of Plex, Jellyfin will more than likely be the longterm media server that I use if and when plex ever goes down the drain and goes all in on free tv/movie streaming and abandons their roots. But until then I'll keep riding the plex train until the wheels fall off.

[sumabich]

Thanks for pointing this out to me.
Been using plex for a while and was unhappy about how inflexible it is.
With Jellyfish is much easier to build my library how I want it rather than how the software wants it.
Most importantly, I can keep my original folder structure and names and still have the software treat the data properly and correctly without having to do everything by hand.

[indianapolisryan]

I too used plex for years. Understood every aspect of the application, even down to the structure of the database. I started using jellyfin because of a pay wall issue and also plugins. I love jellyfin. I love it so much I'm never going back to Plex. This youtuber nails it.

[mopeygoff]

I love Jellyfin. I've been using it for a couple years now in a Proxmox container. There are plenty of tutorials for setting up GPU passthrough to the Jellyfin container which honestly is the hardest part of the entire setup. Of course if you're not using virtualization, hardware acceleration practically works out of the box. Same for Intel's iGPU stuff.

My only gripe with JF is that I wish their IPTV stuff worked a little better. There is no way to dedupe or manage iptv lists, you have to use something like xTeVe or TVHeadend to get that to work (or use a third party IPTV list editor). There also doesn't appear to be a buffer, so the streams are susceptible to jitter, drops, and freezes. xTeVe, which hasn't been updated in a couple years, helps a lot in this arena, but it also has its problems.

But all-in-all, JF is the best media server out there, imo.

[patrikmedia]

Using Plex with the lifetime pass that I got for 50% off two years ago. Can't be happier with it, does everything I want and need.

[JustARandomSomething]

I dont really like the UI of Jellyfin. Plex is more refined (granted they have more time to refine it). I'm sure jellyfin works fine for you and others, but it's not for me, at least not yet.

[Vishal_.]

I use Jellyfin for educational projects such as books, audiobooks and documentaries I share with my group. I have plex just for movies, music and photos. I love both.

[jenkins]

After spending a day with Jellyfin, its going to be a no from me. Plex does collections wayyyy better and as someone with a massive media library, that's of utmost importance to me. Collections aren't just for grouping together a cinematic universe, but Jellyfin seems to be under that impression. Weirdly inflexible. Kodi+Emby just feels like Plex 10 years ago with far fewer security features.

[grenburl]

Wrongly identified movies/shows can be avoided by naming movie/show files correctly. For example the Wicked City file should have been named "Wicked City (1987).mp4". This will then properly identify the movie. This is an issue with Doctor Who shows. anything pre-2005 can be in a folder named Doctor Who, then Series 01, Series 02, etc. But for 2005 and beyond, you need to put those in a folder named "Doctor Who (2005), then each season in it's own season folder named Season 01, Season 02, etc. I use Jellyfin with this naming structure and have no issues. I also use Emby, and use the same naming structure for that as well. Both servers softwares have extensive articles on their forums that explain how folder/file naming works.

[chrisumali]

Thanks for the demo and info. I have setup both plex and jellyfin on a vm with a graphics card. Not sure which one I prefer but at least both options are there. Have a great day

[coolbrotherf]

Good timing. I just got a seedbox set up and now it's the perfect place to host a jellyfin server so that I can watch my movies and shows without filling the hard drives on my devices. I was able to get it set up and watched the new Rick and Morty episode streamed from my seedbox to my Roku. Cool stuff 👍

[laduzi]

Just a tip for mismatching.

Use sonarr for media management in series folder format till be

{Series TitleTheYear} [tvdb-{TvdbId}]

episode format

{Series Title} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {absolute:000} - [{Quality Title} {MediaInfo VideoCodec}] [{MediaInfo AudioCodec}{MediaInfo AudioChannels}] - [{Release.Group}]

[_bcd]

It's ok, but still plex has a app on almost all tv's and jellyfin does not and i can't expect all my friends to setup something with jellyfin.

[deividxyz]

I run both on my TrueNAS Scale instance and I'm very happy with Jellyfin, it feels less bloated than Plex, and also lets you configure transcoding settings with more customization. On the client side, it's not supported on every os (Eg. Tizen doesn't have an official client), but if you use Android it works oob.

[death-by-ego]

With files becoming so much larger over the years, Im finally building a NAS. Im sick of my stuff being across different external drives and having to buy another drive to shove into my tower. Im just waiting until the rest of the parts to come in. Im guessing 44TB is going to cover me with Unraid.

I have been looking at media server applications too since the tech has grown quite a bit since I was playing around with kodi 10 yrs ago. I am probably going to do the Jellyfin route since Im not interested in paying a subscription to watch MY own media. I have zero issues with donating or buying a reasonably priced lifetime license (did it with Launchbox and I was happy to do it).

Plex has a lifetime option which feels a little to high for me, but the thing that turns me off now is how they treating the paid customers. Jellyfin it is.

[KenJones]

I'm not convinced. I'm a long-time Plex user. My setup is my media is on a NAS and Plex is on a small dedicated used Linux box. Media is served un-transcoded to everything in the house as they are all able to digest it natively. For the few times I serve outside the home my server hardware does include the appropriate CPU to do light transcoding.

Some of the actions you were doing in the Jellyfin are trivial in Plex like changing the artwork or fixing a match. A couple of clicks and you're done.

My biggest gripe is I have to manually upgrade the version of Plex. It's not easy or automated. But it's only 5 minutes or so.

I'm already invested in a lifetime membership in Plex, but I'm sure a free version of a solid media platform is good for a lot of people. Thanks for the video.

[grenburl]

You can bypass the online account issue in Windows 11 Home. During boot up, and at the connect to a network screen, 1. don't connect to any network, 2. use shift+F10 to bring up a command prompt and type the following: OOBE\BYPASSNRO (must be in caps). This will restart your system and allow you to install using a local account. Once the reboot is complete, you can skip connecting to a network and choose the sign in without a microsoft account option.

[SakosTechSpot]

Looks cool, but I'll stick to plex. Pretty happy with the service so far.