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Jellyfin
I keep hearing this, but my emby server has been running strong for a few years now without issue. My only gripe with it is the emby premiere ads that take up a lot of home screen space, but I got rid of it with custom CSS that you can put in emby settings, doesn't even show up on the phone app anymore.
I've heard Jellyfin implemented features that emby puts behind a paywall too, but I'm not sure what. Care to fill me in on what I'm missing?
I've no experience with Emby but the fact you're talking about ad workarounds and paywalls and subscriptions leads me to believe you owe yourself to at least try out jellyfin. It has none of that.
I feel like your interpretation of my comment is really off. I've never had issues with paywalls, and the reason I said the ad thing was my only gripe was because I thought I didn't have to explicitly say it wasn't a big deal. I haven't had any problems that make me feel like I owe it to myself to find something better, because my Emby experience has been great.
The point of my comment is that I'm curious what I'm missing out on, since people's problems with Emby don't really line up with my experience.
I was admittedly being a bit of a smartass, I don't actually think jellyfin is doing anything particularly special.
It's free, it's open source, it doesn't try to upsell me or show me ads, it's fast, it has personalized user accounts, it organizes and presents media beautifully and plays it flawlessly on whatever device I choose to use. For me, idk what more I could ask for from a media server.
EDIT: looking at Emby premier, seems $ provides hardware transcoding, native apps, downloading media for offline, cover arts, database backup, I guess this is stuff I take for granted. Jellyfin just includes it. If jellyfin couldn't do transcoding or native app playback OOTB I don't think I'd use it.
Edit2: for context I moved from kodi to jellyfin just a couple years ago, I wasn't aware of it's FOSS-fork relationship to Emby before now.
The weird thing is I get cover art and hardware transcoding with Emby but I've never paid. I know it has it because 4k playback was lagging until I enabled it 🤷♂️ and it would be weird to imagine emby without cover art of any kind. Doesn't every media app just scrape by title? Is this referring to something else?
I also use the native emby app on my phone, I think my smart TV has it too, unpaid. Man, I'm really confused about their paid features lol everything I think would be needed seems to be in native Emby as well. So weird.
Good to know though, I could see downloading for offline use being very useful for travel and stuff.