It’s not an opinion to have 😆 I have to do more work vs no work. You can’t “disagree” with that. It’s just a fact. Nothing to opine about.

That’s why I mentioned “where I live”. 😉

You can say what you want about my “take”. All I’m saying is, I have to do work with one system, and I don’t with the other one. If all other things were identical, which one would you choose, bruh??

I know about hard links and have used them before, they are fine. But it’s still work I need to do in one system where it needn’t be done in the other.

Is this so hard to understand for you? Leave me alone if so.

Get this: more work takes more time; less work, less time. I have little time, and I need to keep the file names intact, period.

I get that the instructions are there. There’s instructions for Plex too that I’ve gone and read.

That’s not the point.

Well yes, that goes without saying…

PS: 🇸🇪👋

That’s simpler and better (nondestructive) than renaming files, for sure. Still an extra step I need to take vs not having to do so.

X is super simple, you just gotta understand how X works.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I do believe that’s the point. 😆 That understanding it is the hard part.

I love these people who are like “no no, X is easy, because I understand it.”

If course you think it’s easy — you understand it already…

$550,000 a year as a software developer. That’s insane money. You could buy a luxurious house in the city CASH after saving for two years with that salary, where I live. Including other expenses. They are making 3x my salary, also as a software developer.

Why are still trying to blame this on the user, lol?

If the user has to do more work for the same result, it’s a worse system. Period.

That’s it. 🤷‍♂️

To go into more detail:

How did I choose to ignore instructions when I didn’t read them in the first place? Neither system’s installation instructions has this in it. You’d have to deep dive when you realize it doesn’t work for one of them. Namely Jellyfin.

“Choosing” to ignore it is also a matter of definition. If I rename all my shit, I am a) duplicating lots of downloads on my system because I need to keep the original in order to seed, or b) not able to seed and lose my ability to gain more content in the first place.

Sometimes people’s circumstances are different from yours, my friend.

I understand Jellyfin is better in so many other aspects, I agree with that, but do not defend one single feature which works objectively worse and pin it on the user. Don’t be that person.

Unless some is already familiar with plex, they probably won’t find your different language version.

I don’t have this issue, but I agree it could be easier to see which version you are playing. I think it’s supposed to be very different quality versions, so one would be like 4K, then 1080p, then maybe 720p. But when you have one English 4K and one Nordic 4K, is a 50-50 guessing game. It’s easy to switch once you start playing though.

Still better than Jellyfin though, in this particular regard.

Total compensation per what, year?

Yeah that’s good too, but ultimately for a different purpose. Still great. Jellyfin have that?

If you deviate from it, that’s on you.

I don’t understand why we need to “pin it” on someone?

It just works differently, in a way that requires more hands-on work, as opposed to no hands-on work. So it’s objectively worse. That’s “on me”?

It being in the docs is irrelevant in this context. It could’ve been there or not. But the fact that I need to do extra work as opposed to not makes Plex more comfortable in this regard, and I don’t see how that’s up for debate.

If Jellyfin had done it’s duplication check on identified movie IDs instead of filesystem names, we would be in a different situation. But they don’t, and here we are.

I’m not ragging on Jellyfin, I’m just pointing out facts. Not even an opinion piece.

That’s what I mean. You have to rename them. Plex handles this automatically, with the same shared library. I wish Jellyfin was better at this.

Jellyfin goes by file name, Plex goes by identified movie/show. Much better.

I would need to inspect every line of that shit before using it. I’d be too scared that it would delete my entire library, like that dude who got their entire drive erased by Google Antigravity…

😅

🫡🏴‍☠️

This too, yes. 🎯

Not if I want/need to seed both versions. Then it’s a third version I need to keep on disk for a few weeks, instead of just two. Believe me, I’ve had this idea too, and have remuxed several movies to save space. 👍

Definitely sounds like a tiny shell script but yeah, I guess it’s seconds with an agent rather than a few minutes with manual coding 👍

Very valid!