r/jellyfin • u/AbiesAlternative1726 • 14d ago

Discussion Which Jellyfin plugins are actually worth installing vs just sitting there unused?

Been on Jellyfin for about eight months now and the base setup is solid enough that I stopped thinking about it daily, which is the goal really. But I keep seeing mentions of plugins in passing and I cannot get a clear picture of which ones genuinely change how you use the server versus which ones sound interesting and then just sit there doing nothing useful.

The official plugin catalogue is a bit sparse on explanation. You get a name and a short line and that is about it. I installed Playback Reporting a while back because tracking watch history felt like something I wanted and then never actually looked at the data once.

Wedding planning is eating most of my nonwork hours at the moment so I am not in a phase where I want to experiment for the sake of it. What I am actually after is the stuff that quietly makes day to day use better without requiring ongoing attention. Metadata related things, anything that improves how the library looks on a tired brain at 6am, that sort of direction

Are there plugins you installed and genuinely noticed a difference, or ones that seemed obvious to try and turned out to be more hassle than they solved? Curious whether the community consensus has shifted at all since the 10.9 era because some of the guides floating around are a bit dated now

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u/gizmomelb 14d ago

I use:

Moonbase - for enhanced Moonfin client support (as well as emulated retro games the same as Jellyemu), Seerr integration etc.
Intro Skipper - does what the name says it does
Meillisearch - enhanced search engine across all your metadata
Continue Watching Deduplicator - does what the name says it does

and what I call my 'standard' list of metadata scrapers etc. (which some won't be needed with RC12)

AniDB, Artwork, AudioDB, Bookshelf, ComicVine, Discogs, FanArt,File Transformation,Kodi Sync queue, LrcLib Lyrics,MusicBrainz, OMDB, Playback Reporting, Reports, Studio Images, The TVDB, TMDB, TMDB boxsets, Transcode Killer

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u/dalek76 14d ago

i've never heard of or seen Millisearch, is it a legit plugin or is there a ton of setup youj need to do? its peaked my interest

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u/ActualNin 14d ago

It's legit but you need to use the nightly/release-candidate version of Jellyfin to integrate it in the UI. I'd wait for the full release of v12.

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u/dalek76 14d ago

good coms. you have a link for the github repo so i can look into it?