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Cake day: January 29th, 2025

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  • I thought that the specs are not ideal for Jellyfin as it get stuck at startup, and it takes 3h to do a full scan. My server has an AMD Athlon II 2 220 Processor, 4 GB of RAM, so I thought that maybe Jellyfin need more.

    I saw that they are working on big refactoring to use EFCore instead of doing direct SQL queries. I actually was surprised when they were saying that the migration will take days for some, and you shouldn’t interrupt it.

    Jellyfin has many advanced features compared to Plex, but the experience isn’t great for many. For example, Plex and Jellyfin allow you to match/identify your media. Jellyfin allow searching by IMDB/TMDB/… IDs, but Plex doesn’t (possible by hidden way). But Jellyfin doesn’t autofill the search and year fields, and Plex does. When you select a result, Plex instantly show the fetched details and does the rest in the background. Jellyfin will start rescanning the whole media or episodes, and you get a spinner until it finished checking all media/episodes (minutes later for me for some shows with many seasons). They are really small details but make the user experience not ideal.