Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Does Linus still like Plex?”.
Got one here from Jaden Linus: how are you still using Plex instead of MB or jellyfin? I run all three in Docker containers accessing the same library, with no issues on the same server. Plex calls home to about 500 different places. Well, MB and jelly both don’t you’re, not the first to ask me this uh, the first to ask me this, I think, was uh. Oh I’m gon na hate myself. If I get this wrong but Tim from the labs team um.
If I recall correctly, I I believe it’s Tim, who is a huge jellyfin guy, not a Plex guy and basically was like what. How are you still using Plex? The answer is because my phone license – oh oh yeah, there’s that uh, but no, I think jellyfin is open source and free anyway, oh okay, yeah, I’m pretty, I’m pretty sure jelly fins open so yeah, the free software media system um. But more importantly, my Plex is already set up and already works. However, I have actually had enough problems with Plex that we are know we we have a conditional uh, not working with you um.
I don’t want. I don’t know if I would call it an order, but basically I told I told the sales team that we’re not going to work with Plex until they resolve some of my long time issues with it um some of my long time issues include um the fact That it doesn’t advance to the next episode properly on some of my devices, and I’m like this is ridiculous. That’S like fundamental uh, one of my long time issues is that um, oh yeah, right right, right, downloading local copies to mobile devices has, as far as I can tell been completely broken for like over a year. Uh again, that’s something that I consider to be core functionality uh.
They seem to be very focused on developing. You know Plex TV and some of the other features that are not why I have it. I have it so that it will manage my media library and so that I can watch my media library on all my devices.
Anything else is utterly irrelevant and might as well not exist. Um yeah, download to download to local just does not work for me properly. On Android or iOS, I it this came about because of a recent trip that I went on uh with the kids and I wanted to load up devices with movies and TV shows for the plane and between my son’s OnePlus, Seven, Something whenever they did that McLaren Edition he’s got that one between my son’s one plus my wife’s Samsung, my Samsung foldable, so I expect some weirdness, but my other more different Samsung and my iPhone 13..
I couldn’t get any one of those devices to reliably download content. I some of them went through, but you can’t just cue it up and expect it to finish, and I basically sent out an Irate email in the middle of the night as I’m preparing for this, like 5 a.m, flight that was like we are not working with Them again until this is fixed um, so yeah I I might be at that point now, because that’s yeah again, that’s it’s! It’S fundamental, like it works great for certain things. I have no desire to use anything other than Plex and the Nvidia shield for the theater room. I don’t touch anything else, there’s just no reason to right. Everything is Flawless and perfect, but on mobile devices I have just not had a lot of fun with it. So I yeah – I don’t know – maybe yeah, maybe I’ll – give jellyfin a shot, because one of the other things that I’m going to be doing soon is uh switching off of unraid.
For for my Plex or I guess, jellyfin and uh firing it up on true Nas scale, so I’ve switched to trunas for most storage, but I haven’t gotten around to setting up a Docker container for Plex, so I actually still have all the media. On my my older server, which doesn’t matter to me that much because the main reason that I migrated was due to reliability concerns those are really old drives in there now yeah um, and so, if I like, like what I’m gon na lose a couple, Blu-ray rips. That’S not a big deal to me, whereas, like losing pictures and Home Videos would be, would be catastrophic. .