Thank you for a simple, functional media server

[bblackmoor 16]

I didn't know where else to put this, but I play my media files on Roku and nowhere else, so this seemed as good a place as any, until I find out differently.

THANK YOU.

I want a media server to do three things: navigate the folder structure, display the metadata in (or with) the files, and play the files. Literally everything else is "nice to have", at best. And yet I just spent two days trying to get Jellyfin to perform these three basic tasks. It can't (even though it is eerily similar to Emby -- nearly identical in every other way). I asked in their support channels, and the answer is simply: Jellyfin does not do all of that. The end.

Jellyfin is not a media server. I am not sure *what* it is. I mean, it's obviously an outstanding example of *something*. Jellyfin does a number of quite interesting things, their development team seems competent and well-organized, and I am sure it took an enormous amount of work... but it doesn't meet those three core requirements. Emby does. It is not the default, but it *does* do it.

So again, thank you. I'll be continuing my "Emby Premiere" subscription, to show tangible support for a project that places functionality over ... whatever it is that Jellyfin does.

Edited May 24, 2022 by bblackmoor
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[pwhodges 2012]

8 minutes ago, bblackmoor said:

it is eerily similar to Emby -- nearly identical in ever other way

That's because Jellyfin originated as a fork of Emby (from when Emby went closed-source).

Paul

[Luke 42077]

HI there, thanks for the feedback.