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This feature was opt out and it was very obvious to do so. There’s a lot of comments for jellyfin but it’s not nearly as good. If you have a tiny library maybe it will be okay. If you have 3 or more different devices and a large library, it’s not up to the task. I spent 3 weeks evaluating it side by side and it just isn’t good enough.

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I use Jellyfin -- what's a large library? I have 500 movies and it works perfectly. Hooked up to a Digital Ocean Spaces Bucket. I also have dozens of users connecting to my server. 4GB RAM, AMD CPU. My fear of plex is them mandating a payment charge in the future. Jellyfin will always be free and open.

The main issue IMO comes from the clients moreso than the server. The Jellyfin App on Nvidia Shield sometimes fails or crashes when trying to change audio source. Subtitles always fail to load, and there was a period of time that local shows & movies looked like they were playing in 480p quality.

The issues were to the point that locally I use Emby, and keep Jellyfin remote for web client usage since syncplay is great.

Matching and navigation were the biggest issues. I also had problems on every client where I had to change settings per client whereas Plex “just works” on every device (phones, tablets, tv, shield, and many others)

JF is a great free solution and I’m not trashing it let’s just not pretend it is as good or better than Plex. It’s just not.

I have a fairly large library, and Jellyfin works just fine. It certainly has its rough edges, but everything works well enough.

Regardless, I'd very easily take fewer features, less polish, and even broken functionality, if the alternative is something that spies on what I watch and shares it with others.

I have thousands of movies and tens of thousands of TV episodes.

If you're doing a tabular feature comparison, I'm sure Plex comes out on top. But Jellyfin does everything I want and need, and snappily.

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