For anyone looking for Plex/Emby replacement, whose developments have gone astray.
For those unfamiliar, Jellyfin is a libre fork of Emby, which (similar to Plex) has gone closed-source, resorted fully to the freemium model, to the point where it’s literally not possible to use the free version, started including tremendous amounts of telemetry (mostly Plex).
And just on a basic level, it sounds a bit ridiculous to pay for software for media that you provide yourself hosted on the hardware that you provide yourself.
Anyway, the project is kind of in the early state, but the development is rather fast, just in the couple months that I’ve been using it a lot of things have been improved/introduced, most important for me being:
- iOS clients have been released
- pause/resume is now universal across all devices for the same user (i.e. start playing on one device, continue watching on another one from the moment you stopped)
There’s native support for Linux, macOS and Windows (why would you use those?) and Docker and Kubernetes images available.
Anyway, the developers are committed to keep the software libre forever, so that’s a nice thing :)
btw are we posting software recommendations here?
I remember there being some discussion about group sync’d watching but I don’t think jellyfin supports it yet.
in case anyone sees this–I sniffed around github a bit; they’ve implemented it! they’re targeting the 10.6 release for it. if the 10.6 release takes about as long as 10.5 did (a very shaky assumption) that’ll be out early July. since I think we’ll still be pretty locked down by then… exciting stuff
nice :)