After years of deliberation, and a short but unsuccessful test run in the past, I finally made the switch to from Plex over to Jellyfin.

The migration itself was the easiest part, as in the past I had started to use the Dockerised version of Plex again, which again does have folder permission issues when mounting the data into the Container, but thanks to watchtower gets updated in a timely manner (within hours of a new update dropping).

For the switch all I had to do was to download the Jellyfin docker image, mount the same media folders that Plex had and start it up. After a few clicks in the user interface, it was ready to go: I switched the destination in the reverse proxy to the new instance and stopped the Plex container.

All this merely took a couple of minutes.

App Support

It took me a while to get all the apps replaced, with all the features I want.

macOS

AppleTV

iOS

  • Plexamp / Prism -> ?

    On iOS there’s plenty of apps to choose from:

    • Manet: CarPlay, looks nice, Closed Source
    • Finamp: No CarPlay 👎, Cross Platform (Flutter), looks awfully Android-y, Open Source
    • Fintunes: No CarPlay 👎, Cross Platform (React), looks nice, Open Source
    • AmpFin: No CarPlay 👎, looks nice, Open Source

    Manet is the only viable alternative at the moment, because the others lack CarPlay support. But I’ll try them all out when not driving.

  • Prologue -> plappa

Android