Given the recent news about Plex soon charging for remote access, I wanted to finish up my switch to Jellyfin.

What tools/methods have you all used to migrate watch history to Jellyfin?

I have a few family members in there, and would like to get everything switched over without resetting their watch history.

  • WordBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1213·
    8 days ago

    If we got 5yr it’s more than paid for itself. Even FOSS needs support - stop whining and support good things.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      8 days ago

      Thing is, Plex turns out to be less and less of a good thing with each passing day. Bloat, spying, removal of features, price hikes etc.

      If you want to pay for software that is good, there’s always Emby.

      • WordBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        8 days ago

        Already paid for Plex and it works. Im not in favor of every change they’ve made, but it’s still damn solid and takes money to run.

        The point being these whiners aren’t going to run off and support FOSS/alternatives… Just leech.

        • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          7 days ago

          Yeah but you could pay for Emby and not deal with all the bloat and removed features and such. Or use Jellyfin for free and have the same experience. Plex’s value proposition is shrinking by the day.

              • WordBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                6 days ago

                I never argued that any option is better. If one doesn’t like it, move on. Most of those whining aren’t supporting any project - it’d be better for the FOSS projects to not have to deal with them.

    • MadBigote@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      I don’t get the people down voting you… It’s not like services are free. I’ve been paying for Plex since 2019, and I just recently got a lifetime pass. It’s only fare to pay for it to use it …

    • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      8 days ago

      PLEX is not FOSS, plex is a proprietary fork of XBMC.

      My point is that in 5 years a lot of these plex users will wish they made the switch to jellyfin sooner.

      • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        I just upgraded to lifetime and also use jellyfin but right now it only does 80% of what Plex does in my workflow so gonna use it until I can’t anymore.

      • WordBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        8 days ago

        I know it’s not FOSS. These whiners aren’t going to support any project - FOSS or not- just whine.

        If it takes 5 years to reach that conclusion… A) it’s an easy switch, B) probably saved Jellyfin devs a bunch of moans, C) no regerts.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Yes, do donate to FOSS projects. At least that money will go to people who do the actual work and not to pad corporate profits.