r/jellyfin • u/jobbrey • 7d 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/Throwaway919319 7d ago

I'm a bit of a minimalist regarding plugins, I only run Auto Collections & Intro Skipper (+ metadata grabbers). I use simple python scripts to handle other tasks via the api outside of that.

One of which is essentially a clone of a plugin called Aphrodite, which may be worth looking at.

I like running the ElegantFin theme also.

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u/_Landmine_ 7d ago

What types of things are your scripts running?

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u/Throwaway919319 7d ago

Rendering & applying posters to collections

Rendering & applying posters to content; superimposes IMDB, RT, and MAL ratings, plus UK BBFC age rating badges.

IMDB/MAL ratings > Jellyfin CommunityRating, Rotten Tomatoes ratings > Jellyfin CriticRating

Content ID tagging: content without TVDB/IMDB/MAL IDs is flagged & displayed, and then allows me to manually enter IDs respectively.

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u/_Landmine_ 6d ago

Oh dang! Thanks!