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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
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[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Despite all of this, I haven’t completely abandoned Plex.

Plexamp remains one of the best self-hosted music applications I’ve ever used.

Lyrion, Music Assistant, and Navidrome are all solid options. And Jellyfin also supports music hosting, along with FinAmp, which has similar functionality to PlexAmp (maybe not as good, but download functionality works).

Personally, I abandoned PlexAmp. Wasn't worth keeping with the rest and it has been downhill since the loss of Tidal integration. Navidrome clients work great, have solid radio and discovery features for large collections, and support local downloading for on the go.

And for local listening, I'd argue that Lyrion with Blissmix or LastFM "Don't Stop the Music" plugins are as good and sometimes better than PlexAmp. And Navidrome and/or Music Assistant with AudioMuse-AI plugin utterly destroys PlexAmp's radio/DJ functionality. Install AudioMuse, scan your library and go, it just works. Especially with recent builds having native Linux, Mac, and Windows now (I deployed with Docker compose before these options were available).

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Lol 'i didnt rage quit and post about it'

'I rage quit amd wrote a blog about it'

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

Side question here: how big is your storage pool for those of you that runs a jellyfin server?

I just started a Jellyfin server, but with the current hdd prices, it fills up fast and I need to manage my library a lot more than I'd like

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I have a 5 TB NAS (technically 4x2 TB of SSDs in RAID5, plus float space for backups of my servers), but it's shared for music, video, books and audiobooks, and retro game ROMs, plus other necessities (personal documents and such). Those disks were $600 at the time total, $150 each in 2024. Now would cost $2k ($500 each), it's insane.

I mostly enjoy older stuff, and don't bother with 4k. I let the TV upscale it, don't really care. Looks like I've got about 1.5 TB worth of video (movies, TV, and anime) at the moment, plus another 1.4 TB of music.

If I need to, I can add some additional storage via dual NVMe slots on the NAS, but I don't think it's currently worth it at today's prices. I still have a bit over 1 TB free, will keep it that way likely.

[–] determinist@kbin.earth 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

10TB. 80% full. I have 2TB that I can add if I need. At this point I've maintained 80% for about 1 year.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

10TB was pocket change not too long ago, now it's so expensive. Unreal.

I'm lucky because my TV is 1080p so i can download lower resolution movies and series.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Even with a 4k TV, 1080p is fine. Most TVs these days will upscale 1080p and 480p content, and even if not, 4k is an exact integer scale of 1080p (3840x2160 is 2x 1920x1080).

4k content is a bit sharper, but I can barely notice the difference, in games or video content at TV viewing distance.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, personally, I've noticed that I notice and appreciate very high quality streams when they are there but don't notice lower quality ones in a bad way (where "lower quality" is still like 1080p, 720p is more noticeable).

Like 4k looks great but 1080p still looks normal.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

80TB array here. I've recently started using Maintainerr to delete things my friends and family request via seerr if it goes unwatched. I deleted over 15TB of things that was requested but never watched, a lot of entire shows of multiple seasons where someone only watched 2 episodes. (this was years of request history it ran over)

It was that or spending money on more 20TB drives and I just don't have it in me to spend that money with current prices.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

I just have a 2TB server, for all my services, so I allocate 1TB for the ARR stack and the rest for my other services.

80TB would be nice haha.

I should probably add maintainerr to my services, would help me keep my files space low.

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[–] GTKashi@lemmy.world 27 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I got the Plex lifetime pass like 10 years ago, but just switched to Jellyfin over the weekend. It felt like every week Plex was asking me to re-pick my home page list and just insisted on re-adding their live streaming junk. Got tired of it. Reverse proxy is not hard to set up, and while there’s some encoding kinks to work out, it’s not like Plex was immune to those problems either.

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