Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?

Yep. Enshitification behavior doesn't cease once you're technically a paying customer. If they hadn't made a habit of enshitification. Clawing features away to put behind a paywall I'd give them some support. But I prefer foss anyhow. And for myself, I'm not missing anything.

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

I got the lifetime pass 5 years ago. I've switched to JF because of the disappointment so far about a year ago.

JF is exactly what I wanted and needed plex to be, and everything added since is a worsened product. The lifetime pass was an attempt at getting the peace of mind of "then you just have it". If anything, only FOSS can give that.

Won't take that long before the enshittification is complete.

I've had a lifetime pass for years, but have considered making the switch several times. So far I've held back because, and correct me if I'm wrong, there are tools to transfer watch state, but not ratings, and while there's a plugin for dynamic collections, it's based on tags, so you can't just have a collection based on something like rating. My library also contains "custom" shows where there's no match for it online, so I've manually assigned it some details.

I recently made the switch, worked pretty well :)

Thanks! Looks like it will work.

I just used this to migrate from Emby to Jellyfin, works really well. I already have trakt setup on my main account but for my kid nothing goes out to the cloud so their account was all done with watchstate. It was also handy to keep Emby and Jellyfin in sync during the transition.

Thanks this looks great!

This tool is neat for updating watched status live amongst backends AFTER it’s been set up, but have never gotten it to work to bring a new back end in line with an existing one. I moved from Plex to Jellyfin, then again from Jellyfin to Emby and both times it only marked some of my watched content as played on whatever the “new” system is. And not even on a show by show basis either. If you go from Plex where you’ve watched every episode of a season of a show that has 10 episodes, when it exports that status to Jellyfin or Emby, it’ll mark episodes 1,2,6,9, and 10 as played but not the others. It’s remarkably consistent in this behavior and even after scrapping the DB and starting over it always behaves the exact same.

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These whiny people should stay with Plex if only to save FOSS devs the headache of dealing with them. They aren't going to support them either.

(Thanks for helping clarify)

That would probably work, until Plex decides to introduce another subscription tier on top of the lifetime license, and/or demand more money from its paying users. I could totally see them doing that

I thought about it, but remote access is just something I use so rarely that it doesn't seem worth the cost to me.

Also I really distrust anything 'lifetime', historically those don't work out very well on most services.

I’ll take it if you haven’t already given it away. This Plex change is not great for me, since I’m using remote access. I’ve got a Jellyfin server too, but I’m finding it less convenient for me, mostly for various nitpick reasons

If you have Plex pass you dont have to worry about it. Others can still remote play from your server free. Actually more so because the mobile app is free for them too now.

Thanks! Sounds like the best option

The entire point of jellyfin is being able to remotely access media (with an good interface and functionality). What do you mean by remote access?

It does, just not thorugh their servers like Plex does.