I've been a paying Emby user for close to ten years, ever since plex tried to launch a VR player or some shit, while there were still critical bugs in the player for web and other devices.

Emby just works, it's players are great, and issues actually get fixed. I know it's a closed source fork of XBMC, I know that's controversial, but the product itself is just so good.

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unsnap_biceps 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Jellyfin is a highly modified fork of Emby from Emby's last open source release (3.5.2). They're diverged since, but there's still a lot of similarities left.

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reprodev 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm definitely curious about those that moved over to Emby from the XBMC days.

Did you try anything else before hand or just go straight to Emby? I have to say I never really gave it a proper chance

	▲	beAbU 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I started with XBMC, with the media library on the same machine as XBMC. Then I developed a need to have acces to my library on different devices. After faffing about with samba shares and whatnot I discovered Plex. I started using that as a free user, and was very impressed and happy. 3-4 years into that journey I was considering buying a lifetime pass. At some point their web client felt like it was abandoned, because they kept on releasing apps for a bunch of niche devices and for VR. I was unsure if my subscription was going to make my experience any better. Eventually I discovered Emby, trialled it for a couple of months alongside Plex (same XBMC core, so the same library naming convention and folder structure). After that I decided to get the subscription for Emby. Their server is solid, the web client is solid, and their android clients are solid. Happy camper since then!