• BiscuityCat@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I never had the chance to try Plex, but how does it compare to Jellyfin? What kind of features does Plex have and Jellyfin does not and vice versa?

    Examples of basic features I’m missing in Jellyfin:

    • Create a user-defined collection (like group of favourite movies)
    • Adding user-defined tags
    • Filtering by tags or any meaningful filtering
    • Filtering by languages (however this could be done by using combination of 2 different plugins that add tags and create collections)
    • [Important] No movie/show relations (e.g. The Lord of the Rings 1 -> 2 -> 3)
    • No way to know if movie/show belongs to any collection
    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 hours ago

      Kodi has movie group/collections. I don’t remember about Plex, it’s been a long time since I used it

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      4 hours ago

      I use Plex

      • Create a user-defined collection (like group of favourite movies)

      Collections exist along with ratings.

      • Adding user-defined tags

      I think you have to be admin to do that bevause it’s part of the library metadata. Shared libraries would have to use playlists or collections which are per user. I don’t use Jellyfin so I’m not sure what you’re referring to.

      • Filtering by tags or any meaningful filtering

      Filters work well. Similar to iTunes. The filters aren’t listed in alphabetical order for some fucking reason, though.

      • Filtering by languages (however this could be done by using combination of 2 different plugins that add tags and create collections)

      I think you can filter by movie language? Never done this. I don’t think it cares about the languages available in the audio streams.

      • [Important] No movie/show relations (e.g. The Lord of the Rings 1 -> 2 -> 3)

      None on Plex.

      • No way to know if movie/show belongs to any collection

      There’s automatic collections but there isn’t a UI element that shows if a movie is missing from a collection or vice/versa.

    • Ernest@lemmy.zip
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      4 hours ago

      given they finally finished their database refactor, maybe they’ll finally start adding some of these

      (copium)