I quit Plex years ago because I didn't like them shoving their FAST [1] offering down my throat. I suffered with Jellyfin for two years and never got it to work right -- movie night with the family was always a humiliation. If you go back to my posting in that time frame you will see a lot of bitching about XBOX which was really bitching about Jellyfin on XBOX for which they tried all kinds of things to make it work and said it was better every time and it wasn't.

I spent a lot of the summer of 2024 watching Tubi in the room of the other house with a stray cat that I failed to domesticate and figured FAST wasn't so bad after all. Last winter I switched back to Plex and I am so delighted with it. It's a consumer electronics experience to watch content off my server or FAST or live OTA TV or recorded OTA TV with a game console. With Plexamp I can listen to music off my server wherever I go on my phone and either listen to albums and tracks I choose or use the 'Deep Cuts' recommender which is just great because it challenges me to listen to stuff I don't always listen to.

That said, there's nothing more I dread than having to change my password on mobile and game console like devices -- one thing I really relish is being able to watch TV and movies on my game console and not have to log in every time (like it is watching DVDs) which was one of the many ways Jellyfin failed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_ad-supported_streaming_te...

> replacement of plex Emby

Are Plex and Emby related somehow?

I've got Emby running here - selected for no better reason than several of my friends run it. I'd consider switching to Jellyfin if there were reasonable evidence showing that Emby was run by the Plex people - or if they started showing obvious signs of the enshittification playbook...