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Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Given the recent news about Plex soon charging for remote access, I wanted to finish up my switch to Jellyfin.

What tools/methods have you all used to migrate watch history to Jellyfin?

I have a few family members in there, and would like to get everything switched over without resetting their watch history.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Not really. Or at all. Both of those are multi-purpose devices which you can use for other things. A plex license is singularly for Plex. It doesn't do anything more for you than to stream your own media, something you can already accomplish for free.

Of all the examples you could have chosen you essentially picked the worst two.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It doesn't do anything more for you than to stream your own media

    Sure it does, which is why we're not all using VLC to stream our media.

    Furthermore, they do provide a simple way to share our media with friends and family via their authentication servers along with their relay servers if direct access to your server goes down for whatever reason which have associated costs. I have a lot of my own gripes about Plex, but this particular change is probably at the bottom of the list, and I think acting like this software has zero value is disparaging not only Plex but Jellyfin and the army of volunteers over there working hard to make their product better for you and everyone else at no cost. You're essentially saying all their work is worthless since their product accomplishes all the same things as Plex.

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