Should I use Jellyfin?

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I have jellyfin installed on my Debian server that also houses my Plex server. I bought the lifetime membership for Plex a long time ago, but I keep hearing of alternatives like Jellyfin so I thought I'd give 'er the 'ole college try. So far, seems fine. I was looking for some info on the database, though. All I could find (brief search, mind you) was that the software uses SQLite. If this is true, then there's really no benefit to switch, imho. My biggest problem with Plex is that they use SQLite and it drives me insane. I would much prefer to use PostgreSQL or even (shudder) MySQL/MariaDB.

It doesn't look like my Music library sync'd up correctly. I'll be looking in to that later. Plexamp is, in my opinion, the single biggest draw to using Plex. That app is so good. I wish there was a Raspberry Pi version I could use, but the headless thing will be... fine I guess. Does Jellyfin have anything like Plexamp? Should I not even bother with the music side? It seems to do really well with Movies.

Is Lazy Loading a thing? Is there a plugin or something I can add to make that work?

I haven't tried tinkering with the software much, so these next couple questions may have already been asked:

Is there a way to group the same movies but of different resolutions/languages? (i.e. Akira 720p English, Akira 720p Japanese, Akira 1080p English, etc all rolled into -> Akira)

Is there a way to send a user an invite rather than setting a password for them?

Is there any SSO integration possible? (I'm not sure how far I'd go with SSO, just wondering if it's possible)

LDAP integration?

That's all I can think of for the time being. I've only had it installed for a few hours. So I still have much tinkering/feeling out to do.

Thanks!

[TheDreadPirate]

I have jellyfin installed on my Debian server that also houses my Plex server. I bought the lifetime membership for Plex a long time ago, but I keep hearing of alternatives like Jellyfin so I thought I'd give 'er the 'ole college try. So far, seems fine. I was looking for some info on the database, though. All I could find (brief search, mind you) was that the software uses SQLite. If this is true, then there's really no benefit to switch, imho. My biggest problem with Plex is that they use SQLite and it drives me insane. I would much prefer to use PostgreSQL or even (shudder) MySQL/MariaDB.

There has been discussions about moving to a "real" database.  But I'm not aware of the progress or if it will actually happen.

It doesn't look like my Music library sync'd up correctly. I'll be looking in to that later. Plexamp is, in my opinion, the single biggest draw to using Plex. That app is so good. I wish there was a Raspberry Pi version I could use, but the headless thing will be... fine I guess. Does Jellyfin have anything like Plexamp? Should I not even bother with the music side? It seems to do really well with Movies.

Some of the jellyfin team still use Plex for music because of Plexamp and how Plex handles music identification and organization, in general.  But there are 3rd party open source apps like Finamp that is more Plexamp like.  There's also non-free apps like Symfonium.  Using apps like Musicbrainz Picard to tag your music significantly helps with Jellyfin identifying them correctly.

Is Lazy Loading a thing? Is there a plugin or something I can add to make that work?

Jellyfin does lazy load in the web UI and Jellyfin Media Player.  The Roku client does as well.  I haven't gotten a response about some of the other clients, but I suspect most of the official clients lazy load.

I haven't tried tinkering with the software much, so these next couple questions may have already been asked:

Is there a way to group the same movies but of different resolutions/languages? (i.e. Akira 720p English, Akira 720p Japanese, Akira 1080p English, etc all rolled into -> Akira)

Yes.  Jellyfin can do multiple "versions" of a movie under one listing.  But for movies only.  Versions of shows is expected in 10.9.  No ETA on that release.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...of-a-movie

Is there a way to send a user an invite rather than setting a password for them?

AFAIK, invites is not a thing in vanilla Jellyfin.  There is a 3rd party app called "JFA-Go" that can do this.

Is there any SSO integration possible? (I'm not sure how far I'd go with SSO, just wondering if it's possible)

LDAP integration?

There is an LDAP plugin in the official plugin repo.

[visualblind]

I have jellyfin installed on my Debian server that also houses my Plex server. I bought the lifetime membership for Plex a long time ago, but I keep hearing of alternatives like Jellyfin so I thought I'd give 'er the 'ole college try. So far, seems fine. I was looking for some info on the database, though. All I could find (brief search, mind you) was that the software uses SQLite. If this is true, then there's really no benefit to switch, imho. My biggest problem with Plex is that they use SQLite and it drives me insane. I would much prefer to use PostgreSQL or even (shudder) MySQL/MariaDB.

Yes it uses SQLite, unfortunately for you ;(

It doesn't look like my Music library sync'd up correctly. I'll be looking in to that later. Plexamp is, in my opinion, the single biggest draw to using Plex. That app is so good. I wish there was a Raspberry Pi version I could use, but the headless thing will be... fine I guess. Does Jellyfin have anything like Plexamp? Should I not even bother with the music side? It seems to do really well with Movies.

Please see https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/commen..._auto=true and https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/music and https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/. Additionally look through the plugins for Music related functionality like metadata etc.

Is Lazy Loading a thing? Is there a plugin or something I can add to make that work?

Lazy loading is controlled per-user:
User > DISPLAY > 'ENABLE BLURRED PLACEHOLDERS FOR IMAGES'

Is there a way to group the same movies but of different resolutions/languages? (i.e. Akira 720p English, Akira 720p Japanese, Akira 1080p English, etc all rolled into -> Akira)

Yes. Different settings for this feature are in several locations. To group movies manually you can in the web interface: long-left-click on each film and select the check-mark, then at the top right menu ellipsis menu select "Group Versions". To automatically group versions, see https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies

Is there a way to send a user an invite rather than setting a password for them?

Yes with third-party solutions such as Jellyseerr: https://github.com/Fallenbagel/jellyseerr

Is there any SSO integration possible? (I'm not sure how far I'd go with SSO, just wondering if it's possible)

Not natively, there might be a third-party solution available I'm not sure.

LDAP integration?

Yes via a Jellyfin plugin. In the web interface: Go to the Dashboard > Plugins (under Advanced) > Catalog (at the top) > LDAP Authentication (under  Authentication). After installed you'll need to configure its settings on the "My Plugins" page.