Welll…They state in their docs how it should be.
If you deviate from it, that’s on you.
And yes it’d be nice if they did it automagically but we can’t have everything and I don’t expect it from them honestly as that is really a very niche requirement considering it already works.
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.
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.
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
Bruh.
I can’t any more. That’s the worst take I have heard yet.
Yes, if it works automagically it’s great. But if it aint, you just need to follow instructions. One just can’t duct tape everything together
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.
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 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.
Welll…They state in their docs how it should be.
If you deviate from it, that’s on you.
And yes it’d be nice if they did it automagically but we can’t have everything and I don’t expect it from them honestly as that is really a very niche requirement considering it already works.
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 correct.
But you chose to ignore the instructions because you are used to a different way of doing it and them you get duplicate entries.
That’s it (shrug).
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.
Bruh.
I can’t any more. That’s the worst take I have heard yet.
Yes, if it works automagically it’s great. But if it aint, you just need to follow instructions. One just can’t duct tape everything together
Are you unable to hard link?
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.
We agree to disagree.
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.