Here’s why I still use Plex: for me Jellyfin hasn’t been easy to work the way I want it to. I mostly access my media on an Nvidia Shield, and the Jellyfin Android TV app just refuses to play certain videos; I can play them if I use VLC as an external player, but not within the app itself. The more pressing issue is that Jellyfin just refuses to play 5.1 audio, and downmixes everything to stereo. I have other issues, but these are the ones that prevent me from using it.

For me Plex just works.

I’ve had a lifetime pass for years, but have considered making the switch several times. So far I’ve held back because, and correct me if I’m wrong, there are tools to transfer watch state, but not ratings, and while there’s a plugin for dynamic collections, it’s based on tags, so you can’t just have a collection based on something like rating. My library also contains “custom” shows where there’s no match for it online, so I’ve manually assigned it some details.

Oh, that is a fox. I couldn’t differentiate between the white and cream under current viewing conditions, and I thought it was a seahorse.

I only launched it for long enough to tell it isn’t for me just yet. My dealbreakers are:

• Inability to quickly swap between audiobook and podcast libraries, or better yet; displaying both on one home screen.
• Audiobooks are thrown at you in one big pile. Ideally they would be organized, and not all shown at once unless you dig into it.

I’m definitely checking it out again at some point, but I’m sticking with the official app for now.

I tried this a while back, and it couldn’t correctly identify anything. Presumably this will improve once they get IGDB implementation done.