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RASPBERRY PI EMBY SERVER ANDROID

RASPBERRY PI EMBY SERVER ANDROID

The Jellyfin Android TV app is slightly worse than Plex’s, but they’re both dreadful to navigate with a remote control. I’ll go into more details on metadata retrieval and your media library privacy in a later article.

RASPBERRY PI EMBY SERVER MOVIE

Jellyfin gets its metadata from a variety of online sources such as The Movie Database ( TMDb). Jellyfin is pretty much a drop-in replacement for Plex Media Server’s core functionality. It has apps and a web player you can connect to your local media server. It offers the same media cataloging, automatic metadata and art downloading, keeps track of what I’ve watched, and has the same transcoding capabilities as Plex. Jellyfin is very similar to what Plex Media Server used to be. Fearing another Plex, I decided against using Emby in favor of Jellyfin. Emby has added some extra features behind a premium monthly subscription. However, the Emby web player and apps feel far less polished than Jellyfin. Jellyfin is a fork of Emby at the point where the software went commercial. Emby used to be a free and open-source media server alternatives to Plex. I had a brief fling with the Emby Media Server before I decided to move from Plex to Jellyfin. Plex is becoming something I’m not interested in. I’m not interested in Plex’s incredibly tiny movie catalog (in my region) or its premium membership offerings. The parts of Plex I used have remained virtually unchanged for almost a decade. I’m sure that getting paid is a better business model for Plex.

I just wanted a media server to be the hub for my own media collection. My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead. Recently, I opened up Plex and couldn’t find my own content. It keeps insisting I sign up and login through their web portal instead of using the front end for my local Plex server. It’s been great, but Plex has steadily changed in an unwanted direction. It can also transcode and stream media in multiple multimedia codecs to ensure compatibility with all types of devices and screen sizes. Plex can neatly organize media, fetch metadata and movie posters, and keeps track of what and how far you’ve watched your media files. It’s been my primary way to catalog and watch my movie and TV show collection. I’ve used the Plex Media Server for over a decade.

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