Violet@Ice:~$💜
Need a #jellyfin and/or #plex alternative that isn't like #kodi going down the full llm horseshit route. I thought maybe DIM? But the github repo won't load the contributors page and that makes me not trust it. Any advice? #askfedi #selfhosting #mediaserver
Bradley
Christian@chris42 Plex has been selling out too much for my tastes, Jellyfin has gone down the llm shithole with claudecode
@violet Ah I see. Just wanted to try Jellyfin, as I felt Kodi is not developing further... now probably will observe a bit more. Not knowing a good solution besides them, that really gives good feature and usability.
@chris42 Kodi also has claudecode contributions to the codebase unfortunately, i can point to this specific repo where they have it doing their code review https://github.com/xbmc/kodiai
BjoernAusGE@chris42 @violet honestly you cant really compare Jellyfin / Emby / Plex to Kodi.
While the first three are fully featured Media Server Solution with proper multiuser, system specific client apps, transcoding support Kodi is "just" a highly extendable media player. It is already a pain there to hook it up to a SQL DB to share play count etc. to multiple devices.
Regarding the LLM garbage: honestly i think thats the way most projects will go, also because of the lack of contributors. As long as a human maintainer understands the code the LLM spits out i have personally no problem with it. The ecological impact is another story.
While the first three are fully featured Media Server Solution with proper multiuser, system specific client apps, transcoding support Kodi is "just" a highly extendable media player. It is already a pain there to hook it up to a SQL DB to share play count etc. to multiple devices.
Regarding the LLM garbage: honestly i think thats the way most projects will go, also because of the lack of contributors. As long as a human maintainer understands the code the LLM spits out i have personally no problem with it. The ecological impact is another story.
thefoggiest
Endareth@violet For music, there’s @navidrome_releases, which is fantastic.
@endareth @navidrome_releases I'll have to take a look at contributors when GitHub isn't shitting itself (here's to 0 9s of uptime!)
@violet @navidrome_releases I’d be curious what you discover, I’ll admit to not looking to deeply (mostly due to just so few other good alternatives).