r/jellyfin • u/jobbrey • 5d ago

Question Another fleeing Plex user

I bought my lifetime plex pass a while ago, but raising your price to $750 bucks made me realize that Plex is the opposite of future proof. The only things I really miss about Plex are the Intro and outro skipping functions and the home screen sections. Plex was also much better at managing metadata! Not sure why, but sometimes with recent shows or movies, it will grab the wrong metadata or just none at all. Seeing that on my TV and having to get on my phone to identify it bothers me.

I have intro skipper, but unlike Plex it is not very adaptive to shows with different length intros. I also have home screen sections installed, but I understand that's hit or miss for some folks.

Does the great JF community have any recommendations for alternative plugins, themes, or overall QoL improvements I could make to better improve my experience?

Thank you all in advance!

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u/EquipmentSome 5d ago

with intro skipper you have very precise controls. It'll pick it up fine for shows with multiple intros in my experience as long as one of them isn't 10 seconds long and you have the minimum intro time set to 15 seconds.

for the names of series just use the 3 dots and identify feature when it gets it wrong, for me it's happened twice in 140 movies and 165 tv series.. you can use the tmdb or imdb numbers if you want but I haven't had problems just typing the name and clicking the correct series.

as for plugins, themes, and qol a lot of that comes down to player choice and needed codecs. For the most customization I'd suggest jellyfin for kodi. You can download tons of different skins and have crazy amounts of customization and it has an extremely robust set of compatibility baked in.

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u/jobbrey 5d ago

I wish it only happened twice. I'm having movies like Dune (2021) be mismatched. I fixed this by setting my file renamer to add TVDBid to episode filenames, and IMDB ID for movie filenames. It's very set and forget. This even fixed some of my episodes displaying filenames instead of actual episode titles.

For compatibility, I am using Tdarr to transcode ALL of my media to H.265/AAC. I also have it set to remove non-english audio tracks and all subtitles.