Emby > Plex > Jellyfin

[MikeScratch 5]

I want to start off by saying that I have used all 3 media servers on and off for many years - more recently Jellyfin. When you go online, and visit Plex forums or Reddit etc you will see them bash it and then everyone always says try jellyfin. I have never understood why Emby almost always NEVER gets mentioned. I think they all have their pros and cons. Plex for me just has a bit nicer UI but it's not worth the functionality FAILS it has. Subs didn't work for a long time, volume levels are off. Does not have sane defaults making people select passthrough which causes more issues. I can go on and on.  Jellyfin is free, and also crashes for me at times with no rhyme or reason. And they decided to sideways scroll libraries by default, to be different?

Emby is the steady hand. It absolutely crushes Plex in functionality. I know this because I have quite a few friends on my server with random internet/bandwidth connections. I would get the odd text that plex crashed, Jelly crashed, Plex buffered, Jelly buffered. Emby...never. Never ever, and if it did - it's because they live on a farm with terrible satellite internet. 

Whatever test Emby does before it decides what bitrate to send our how it sends is it is infinitely better than Plex. On the same hardware and Network (I run them side by side) Emby has 0 issues. 

So. Thank you Emby Team. Keep doing what you're doing. I know there is always a need to improve, but be that steady hand. I just want my media server to work. Ty.

Edited November 5, 2022 by MikeScratch

[arrbee99 1815]

Jellyfin sideways scrolls. Wish Emby did that.

[Junglejim 385]

53 minutes ago, arrbee99 said:

Jellyfin sideways scrolls. Wish Emby did that.

I don't think you would! It's horrid in a large lib scrolling two rows horizontally.

Plus the title sort goes up/down, crazy shit!

[arrbee99 1815]

Oh I dunno, I was pretty unimpressed when they got rid of it from the Android TV app.

(depending on the exact implementation of course...)

[Junglejim 385]

4 minutes ago, arrbee99 said:

Oh I dunno, I was pretty unimpressed when they got rid of it from the Android TV app.

(depending on the exact implementation of course...)

Yea I understand, everyone has there own preferences, which make's it hard for the dev's to choose one or the other.

Jellyfin did have a option to switch between the two if I remember.. (haven't used it for ages) but it still wasn't up to par with Emby.

But yea options are great, let the user decide what lib view they want!

[arrbee99 1815]

The Android app had the option for awhile as well.

Still the existing ATV app is pretty good at the moment and I hope the new replacement app gets to look as good.

And there's css for the web version, so not quite the end of the world as we know it...

[Junglejim 385]

13 minutes ago, arrbee99 said:

The Android app had the option for awhile as well.

Still the existing ATV app is pretty good at the moment and I hope the new replacement app gets to look as good.

And there's css for the web version, so not quite the end of the world as we know it...

Yep for sure! I'm on the fence with the new Android app rep. The ATV is the main client I use (and love it) and I'm worried about that!

I've tried the mobile rep app but was not impressed.

Edited November 5, 2022 by Junglejim

[arrbee99 1815]

I'm certainly doing my best to hint at the things I like, and I'm not being shallow at all...

[Junglejim 385]

6 minutes ago, arrbee99 said:

I'm certainly doing my best to hint at the things I like, and I'm not being shallow at all...

Yea I didn't think you where.   Just swapping ideas/opinions, all good! Lets hope everything turns out for the best.

Cheers mate