> Why would you want to mess around with 2-3 HDMI dongles/boxes and 4-5 streaming services when you can have it all in one place for significantly cheaper and with little technical ability other than installing the Plex app and registering for a shared server? I suspect as time goes on Jellyfin will become the go to for these types of ‘services’.
This, except for most people maintaining their own private libraries, it probably makes more sense to use Kodi to play back files in a file system, than to rename everything to fit Jellyfin/Plex's fairly inflexible file naming requirements.
If you have terabytes of media already, possibly. If your music matches iTunes naming standards it'll import easily. I've kept on top of media naming and it's pretty easy unless you're bringing in a ton of files.
TITLE (YEAR) is easy to edit, then clear metadata for the original file name so that isn't picked up. I use Rename My TV Series for shows.
As someone who ran Kodi for quite sometime I can tell you it just doesn’t quite meet the wife approval factor. Not to mention it has basically no utilities for on the fly transcoding and remote playback which was the killer feature that pulled me to Plex to begin with.
> As someone who ran Kodi for quite sometime I can tell you it just doesn’t quite meet the wife approval factor.
Have you tried manually adding the content to the "Movies" and "TV Shows" libraries in Kodi? Kodi seems to have much more robust and flexible library support, though the process is less "set it and go" as well.
(A huge gripe of mine is having to store TV show seasons in a prescribed format in Jellyfin — I'm just testing it with movies for now.)
> Not to mention it has basically no utilities for on the fly transcoding and remote playback which was the killer feature that pulled me to Plex to begin with.
But yes, it's lacking on the other points, and for discovery of "similar" stuff.
I haven't figured out the balance between using renaming software (I've tried the free version of Filebot, but it has horrible latency for some reason.), and being able to remain a contributing member to certain media communities.
My solution to this has been symlinks. All the media files I download maintain their original names and structures so they can continue seeding, and I maintain a separate folder structure that complies with Jellyfin's naming conventions. All the files are just symlinked so they don't take up any additional space, and I have a couple small scripts to check for missing/broken links.
This, except for most people maintaining their own private libraries, it probably makes more sense to use Kodi to play back files in a file system, than to rename everything to fit Jellyfin/Plex's fairly inflexible file naming requirements.