5 ms·
One thing Plex does better is media detection. Like you can plop all your shows in a folder and it still will make sense of it. Jellyfin insists on a very speci
by pointlessone 5mo ago
One thing Plex does better is media detection. Like you can plop all your shows in a folder and it still will make sense of it. Jellyfin insists on a very specific directory structure and file naming. It’s very frustrating if you only want to watch a show and not interested in maintaining a perfect library.
- hparadiz 5mo agoThey both insist on their own systems and both are wrong.
- jauntywundrkind 5mo agoIt's astounding how much every single system out there fights and fights and fights against showing you your directories, as they are. I started but didn't finish a Rygel + local-search (nee Tracker) plugin to try to finally get that. I wish the upnp media services were better. I keep telling myself I'll build a nice client/controller... Some day.
- mook 5mo agoIs there anything around that does _not_ force a management system? I really just want a thing that primarily just tracks if I've seen a particular file, secondarily maybe let me control playback from a different device. Actually figuring out what media those files map to is a distant third.
- pointlessone 5mo agoDLNA usually doesn’t force any system and more or less exposes fs. Some TVs natively have a client. Otherwise Kody or some other client app can be used to browse and play files.
- pointlessone 5mo agoAs far as I can tell plex only wants separate folders for different kinds of media and file names that give at least some clue to what it is. Plex is much more lax.
- hparadiz 5mo agoThe problem with Plex is that is has a very opinionated system that ignores how things are in real life. One example I can point to is Stargate SG-1. Episode 1 is a two parter and depending on who you ask it's either Episode 1 and 2 or Episode 1 which causes all subsequent episode numbers to be thrown off by 1 depending on how you count. This confusion is further complicated by the release order on DVD/Bluray, the order of airing, and the fact that all of these things can be different in different regions of the world. And that's just one show.
- amazingamazing 5mo agoThis is not really a big deal. If you want it organized arbitrarily put the files in other and it will be.
- hparadiz 5mo agoIt's a big deal because there's no rhyme or reason why it's one way or another way in different series so when you ask your TV through voice command to "Play Season 3 Episode 2 of [Show] through Plex] and then your TV plays the wrong episode it becomes a big deal.
- amazingamazing 5mo agoUse your remote or organize your files accordingly such that the integration works
- hparadiz 5mo agoYou are not listening. There is no way to make it work properly all the time.
- queenkjuul 5mo agoTorrents go in, properly matched Plex entries come out, 99% of the time I do agree that both systems are wrong. At least Plex's is more compatible with the even-more-wrong conventions of the high seas
- surgical_fire 5mo agoFunny, I found no issues with it. Maybe the way I organized my library intuitively sort of matched Jellyfin's expectations?