Me personally, I like Jellyfin. Im not using it daily atm. But when i was, i used it purely for streaming music and it was great for that.
LTT did a video on both a while back and its kind of a toss up imo. Depends on what you care about. Id recommend that video.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/jKF5GtBIxpM
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Jellyfins Xbox app is unusable and afaik there's no app for Samsung tvs or at least not older ones.
Hmm how old is your Samsung TV? Jellyfin doesn't have an official app that you can find in their app store however you can side load it (it's called jellyfin tizen)
I'll be honest and it was far from an easy task to side load it and I don't actually remember how I got it installed in the end but it is doable and works great
Try both, but personally I had trouble with playback on my older android tablet with jellyfin and so I went with plex which works for me.
Jellyfin if you do not like being spied on by your self hosted media library. Plex if you do like being spied on by your self hosted media library.
Also - Plex if you want Audiobooks, because the app Prologue is 🔥
I tried setting up both for a local music server last year, and found Plex's cloud requirements and constant upselling were more of a pain than it was worth. Jellyfin was the one I kept.
I was left unimpressed by jellyfin's photo and video capabilities. Tags detection often was inconsistent/incomplete and metadata retrieval to fill the gaps made things worse in many instances. If you want something specialized for audio, that has great support client side, you should give airsonic-advanced/navidrome/subsonic a shot
If you're satisfied with Jellyfin, you should stick to that cause Plex ain't bringing much to the table in all honesty. I still use Plex cause it works better most of the time really.
one main question should also be, do you want to selfhost or not.
because plex is not selfhosted imo due to their login servers.
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