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Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 (9to5mac.com)
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[–] BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I never had the chance to try Plex, but how does it compare to Jellyfin? What kind of features does Plex have and Jellyfin does not and vice versa?

Examples of basic features I'm missing in Jellyfin:

  • Create a user-defined collection (like group of favourite movies)
  • Adding user-defined tags
  • Filtering by tags or any meaningful filtering
  • Filtering by languages (however this could be done by using combination of 2 different plugins that add tags and create collections)
  • [Important] No movie/show relations (e.g. The Lord of the Rings 1 -> 2 -> 3)
  • No way to know if movie/show belongs to any collection
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I use Plex

  • Create a user-defined collection (like group of favourite movies)

Collections exist along with ratings.

  • Adding user-defined tags

I think you have to be admin to do that bevause it's part of the library metadata. Shared libraries would have to use playlists or collections which are per user. I don't use Jellyfin so I'm not sure what you're referring to.

  • Filtering by tags or any meaningful filtering

Filters work well. Similar to iTunes. The filters aren't listed in alphabetical order for some fucking reason, though.

  • Filtering by languages (however this could be done by using combination of 2 different plugins that add tags and create collections)

I think you can filter by movie language? Never done this. I don't think it cares about the languages available in the audio streams.

  • [Important] No movie/show relations (e.g. The Lord of the Rings 1 -> 2 -> 3)

None on Plex.

  • No way to know if movie/show belongs to any collection

There's automatic collections but there isn't a UI element that shows if a movie is missing from a collection or vice/versa.

[–] BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks. It looks like Plex does have more user friendly features, but still no info about relations. That's a bummer.

It is really important to know the watch order (even if I had to specify it manually). When I think about it, Jellyfin probably fails even for the simplest watch orders like The Lord of the Rings; not to mention Stargate (Movie 1 -> Show -> Movie 2+3).

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