I have both. Plex is better with music at this time, which is a huge use for me. Jellyfin has a quicker UI and i swear looks better streaming to my TV, but could just be bias.
Plex was good for music for me until it started acting weirdly a few months ago. It started scanning my library nonstop and running my hard drives on full speed for days before I eventually caught it.
I was told it was the agent from Plex but changing that out didn’t fix the issue so I moved my stuff off there and have been working with Navidrome instead.
Have you tried PlexAmp? And, are you doing music entirely through the base Jellyfin app? Interesting to know you prefer the music experience on Jellyfin.
I prefer music/audio on Plex & PlexAmp, with one caveat. They nerfed music on Plex (regular app) and there’s certain platforms (Nvidia Shield) that don’t support PlexAmp, so it kinda sucks in that one specific case. But PlexAmp works great for my phone and desktop/laptop (although i use foobar for my desktop to play local files).
PlexAmp also has some nice UI/QOL features like their “artist radio” stuff and “shuffle recently added music” type things.
Jellyfin music is much more barebones / build it yourself. I haven’t dove much into it because the jellyfin naming conventions to auto tag media don’t vibe 100% with my library so it’s a mess in some spots and i haven’t manually fixed it all yet. My music library is large and this would take a while. Plus PlexAmp works great so I don’t feel a need to do anything with it yet and i don’t mind running both systems on my server.
I prefer jellyfin for video, not audio. But only local network for me at this time. I can VPN into my home network for jellyfin but why bother if Plex streams remotely fine and I’m usually watching on a phone or tablet anyway so quality doesn’t matter. But i swear jellyfin video is higher quality than plex video but it’s probably not and I’m just biased lol
I have both. Plex is better with music at this time, which is a huge use for me. Jellyfin has a quicker UI and i swear looks better streaming to my TV, but could just be bias.
Jellyfin needs to fix their bugs around having the same artist listed multiple times in your library.
Agreed. It reads it verbatim and doesn’t “loose match” anything, which can be good or bad.
It does help me find stylized name differences in my library though, but foobar also does this and i can edit the tags directly with foobar.
Plex was good for music for me until it started acting weirdly a few months ago. It started scanning my library nonstop and running my hard drives on full speed for days before I eventually caught it.
I was told it was the agent from Plex but changing that out didn’t fix the issue so I moved my stuff off there and have been working with Navidrome instead.
Have you tried PlexAmp? And, are you doing music entirely through the base Jellyfin app? Interesting to know you prefer the music experience on Jellyfin.
I prefer music/audio on Plex & PlexAmp, with one caveat. They nerfed music on Plex (regular app) and there’s certain platforms (Nvidia Shield) that don’t support PlexAmp, so it kinda sucks in that one specific case. But PlexAmp works great for my phone and desktop/laptop (although i use foobar for my desktop to play local files).
PlexAmp also has some nice UI/QOL features like their “artist radio” stuff and “shuffle recently added music” type things.
Jellyfin music is much more barebones / build it yourself. I haven’t dove much into it because the jellyfin naming conventions to auto tag media don’t vibe 100% with my library so it’s a mess in some spots and i haven’t manually fixed it all yet. My music library is large and this would take a while. Plus PlexAmp works great so I don’t feel a need to do anything with it yet and i don’t mind running both systems on my server.
I prefer jellyfin for video, not audio. But only local network for me at this time. I can VPN into my home network for jellyfin but why bother if Plex streams remotely fine and I’m usually watching on a phone or tablet anyway so quality doesn’t matter. But i swear jellyfin video is higher quality than plex video but it’s probably not and I’m just biased lol