I need to do the same thing, but how did you do it alongside Plex? Meaning, can it just point to the same library and neither Plex nor Jellyfin gets confused (because of one generating files or paths that messes up the other installation)?

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yeah exactly as you said. They point to the same media folder and both run at the same time. Seems to work fine for me fine.

I basically use Jellyfin when I'm at home right now and for anything remote I still use Plex.

I honestly think Jellyfin is nicer. It's faster and it isn't always shoving other libraries in my face. It just has my content the way I want and that's it.

[–] dcbuchan@aus.social 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

@NekoKoneko Neither should get confused. If you’re using Docker there is a sync for watched positions. I think it’s called jellfyfin watched or the like. Not at home to check.

I have Plex lifetime but yes it smells bad. Also frequently have issues. Common lip sync. For a while back not playing 4K. You can’t charge so much and not have a perfect product.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I have Plex Lifetime too, but at some point it just feels gross and I'd love to have an open source stack. I'd like to have Jellyfin running in parallel if it's possible so I can switch over at a moment's notice.

But yeah, that's good to know.