Interesting. What would you say about the clients is better? I know the UI is more polished but again I hate all the extras shoved right at you before your media. (My opinion of course so not true for everyone)

Also download music? Or videos too? Cause that’d be cool to download a movie. I hardly go without internet right now though but I like the thought of it!

Awesome regardless though! Glad you’re happy! I’m still on the fence myself. The sale is tempting. I’d like the ability to refund though and I don’t know how I feel about somethings still.

Thank you for the explanation! I’m curious about the old Plex. I’ve heard the same about the new though. Installed first and sure I hooked up my libraries but I like jellyfin cause it doesn’t have all the “bloat” but I hear you can “disable it” as well so

User management does exist in jellyfin and you can control what library as well as ratings.

You make a good point to. Plex being for profit, can do stuff with the money. In reality, I’d be making an investment into the company which yes incurs its own risks but that’s life.

Thank you, and I will definitely give Plex another shot when I go home today! Will I buy the pass? I’m not sure. I’m more convinced it could be the better option though, even though one is free. I also would love to see jellyfin grow and although I have coding experience, I haven’t the time to invest in learning and adding to a project like itself.

I’ve never used Emby. I will agree though, I just need to use Plex more to not be ignorant of these differences.

Yes this is definitely seen!

Okay, so something I should consider is client support. Thank you!

Honestly if it works for what you have and you like it? Keep it.

I think we often can browse Reddit, and hear things from friends and others who self host and what there setup is. There’s no “the best” setup. It’s just what’s “the best” for your needs?

I have a custom built server. I built it no different that how one might build a PC.

I have a: Ryzen 5700G 8C/16T 64GB gskill 3200 or 3600mhz Neo 2TB Samsung 980 On a ASrock mobo with 2.5GB Ethernet (my internet isn’t even gigabit) Inside a NZXT H1

What do I host?

Classic home utilities people list on this sub. Also other utilities for fun. Otherwise? Game servers. I bought a beefy rig for my MC servers with friends and ambitions of “public mc servers”. But I also host more than just MC servers. I got that CPU too cause it has integrated which I knew would help for jellyfin. I plan to when I go home some weekend (in college currently) to buy and install 1 or 2 20TB drives for “Linux isos” and my FLAC library that’s growing. Xo bandcamp also rip bandcamp.

I upgraded from an old Mac Mini 2012 that worked and would be better than what I have now for the basic stuff. Again though I have game servers but it doesn’t see much usage of those right now. But I can do more with my own server than the $25/ month rental for just MC with often less ram.

I recently just debated did I go wrong when I setup the new server with Ubuntu instead of Proxmox. Did I? No cause it works for what I need. I can do all I need and want, I don’t need VMs and if I really do I have Kasm.

I’ve never had a NAS though even though I use NextCloud on this device. I’ve yet to establish what and how I want to save backups though. Sure they save somewhere but I wanted to buy a 20TB just for them. Also I’ve never used RAID but I think you’ve got to have more money and persistent data movement to justify that. RAID’s just another way have managing data though and effectively maintains backups and harnessing mass storage.

Hopefully this helps! Happy Hosting!