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[–] 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I know Lemmy is obsessed with Jellyfin, but alot of us have lifetime memberships to Plex, and will switch when hell freezes over.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.

    So Jellyfin... How hard is it to migrate from Plex?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.

    What about it? Genuinely... I've been using Rokus longer than Plex, what's the issue with the Roku version?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    There's a new Plex UI that they pushed to Android a few months ago that breaks everything, removes options and customizability, requires extra unintuitive actions to get to any self-hosted libraries, and pushes Plex's Live TV and other junk into prominent UI positions, as I assume the investors and MBAs demanded.

    It was released and universally criticized. So Plex's team thought long and hard about that user feedback - ok, ok, sorry, I couldn't make it without laughing. They changed nothing and pushed forward and now it hit Roku, with no way to decline or roll back.

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  • They are clearly making a shift to bury the user's libraries to the profit of their monetised content.

    I guess they consider that our lifetime pass isn't enough money anymore.

    Enshitification is here, and I'm pretty sure it's on it's way to every other platform's UIs.

    So yeah, I guess it's time to figure out how Jellyfin works.

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  • [+] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, I bought it years ago, and have enjoyed the experience for the better part of a decade.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not shitting on jellyfin. But Plex is just the superior experience. I've used jellyfin alongside Plex for a couple years and while it's very useful for sharing content I don't want my family to see in my Plex libraries. It just doesn't have the polish that Plex has. There's definitely potential, and I look forward to where it goes as the project matures. Like all companies, Plex will goto shit eventually, we all know it. The past couple of months have brought annoying changes and I expect them to continue to enshittify the service. But until that time comes I will continue to prefer Plex.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago

    Jellyfin, unfortunately failed the spouse test when I last tried last year.

    Besides, I don't think for this particular case it would help much, they both pull their data from the same places iirc

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    The worst I've experienced so far is Panty And Stocking S2. Here's a copy paste of what I explained to someone using my plex asking why it was so fucked.

    E01 is a single episode

    E02 and E03 are one episode in the west and on japanese streaming(E02), but it airs on TV as two episodes in japan

    E04, E05, E06 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E03), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

    E07, E08, E09 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E04), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

    E10, E11, E12, are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E05), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

    E13 is a single episode, but it's episode 13 for TV broadcast, and 6 for streaming..

    E14 and E15 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E07), but airs on TV as two episodes in japan

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't see the problem. If the files are named properly, software like sonarr will have no problem organising it. You just name the file S02E4-E6 etc.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    That is indeed the right way to do it, unfortunately Plex doesn't handle it well. It'll show all the episodes separately, but each one plays the entire file (fair, it doesn't know for sure where the breaks are, but could be done better), and watching the whole thing marks only the one you selected as watched, so you have to mark all the other "episodes" as watched manually (this is annoying, if it knows you watched the whole file, it should know that you've watched all the episodes it covers).

    Usually if an episode is a 2 parter in one file, I'll just name it for part 1 since you'd watch them together anyway, but for cartoons the two parts are usually entirely unrelated, so it really only works properly if the file's split. It'd be better if the interface at least showed that a range of episodes are combined so you could, say, start it and know that the episode you want needs to be scrubbed through to find it, and also if it marked them all as played when you watch the whole thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I recently switched to using shoko to handle scanning/metadata etc instead of hama/ass and it’s been working pretty well.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    My main issue is that I use Sonarr which uses tvdb as backend.

    If an alternative to sonarr existed that could also integrate with Overseerr I'd be on that instantly, but sadly there is nothing like that.

    Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    If an alternative to sonarr existed

    Flexget, Medusa

    Overseerr

    Ombi

    The *arr stack is an abomination.

    Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.

    Your providing a free service, right?.... Dont forget to enjoy it yourself. Unless you serve 100 "friends" like everyone else. Then enjoy the money.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Oh god, I love the anime but yeah I can understand that their super loosey-goosey style of episodes would be p bad if you wanted super detailed organizing. The place I've been watching them just groups the content into a single episode, since they effectively are broadcast as one single piece, just with (potentially) multiple chapters.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I (partially) blame tvdb for this mess. SpongeBob has every story listed as a separate episode, but good luck finding any source that doesn't bundle these up.

    Meanwhile, the list for Kaguya just bundles all stories aired together in a single episode (thankfully).

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    [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    This is a very niche meme. I love it.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Futurama is also a pain to organize.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Because of the movies split into episodes?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I have the French dub, which has a very different broadcast order.

    S03E12 in French might be S02E22 in English, while S03E13 is part one of a special episode (so... S00E04, p1).

    No one had published a conversion guide yet,so I ended up playing each file up through the title credits, to determine the new watch order.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I raise you multi-language content or a mixed Australian/US-Broadcast Mythbusters collection 😐

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    And I raise you Pokémon. Holy mother of fuck that's messed up. Some episodes switched around for foreign distribution, some removed, and two seasons put into one, making the entire ordering one season and three episodes off. Had to manually edit nearly everything after Sonarr tagged them because Sonarr used the UK tvdb ordering iirc (the UK removed a couple episodes) but my source used Japan (scene) and Emby used US tvdb. Something like that

    Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Just give up and get streamlined mythbusters. Easier to watch anyway.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Haruhi Suzumiya has entered the chat

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The bane of my existence before it hit Paramount+

    Now you can find individual episodes as WEB-DL

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    American dad being screwy is what got me to finally setup Jellyfin. I was just using Stremio for everything but the jumping around because of season misnumbering was bad

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I took the effort to split every episode S1-S3 in davinchi

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Personally, I don't care enough. Mostly my kids watch SpongeBob, and I can tell when vaguely paying attention as they watch it that I've seen every episode in seasons 1-3 (the only seasons I bothered to load) multiple times, which would specifically have been when I was a kid watching live TV. And half the time it's on shuffle anyways so the order doesn't matter at all

    Edit to add: not sure if the issues people are describing are Plex specific but Jellyfin required zero manual effort when I injested the rips. All episodes have correct metadata (as two parters, so for example I have "S1E10-11 Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple" as a single episode)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    I am too much of a lerfectionist (metadata) to not care. :(

    Edit:
    Thing is, not every release respects the aired or the DVD-order that TVDB uses.
    So you might have some episode which deviates from the current order and suddenly it doesnt work anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    The Repair Shop was a real pain in the ass to import since they apparently run multiple seasons concurrently for some reason.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    My demons are all Doctor Who. I had it mostly straight in plaques and when I moved over to jelly fin, nothing was right.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I thought I had downloaded bad releases and the episodes were messy..glad to see is not just me having trouble to organize sponge Bob to have episode preview right

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Beavis and Butthead.

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