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The thing I really like about plex was that 99% of the time, it would scan and match up my media, even if file formats were inconsistent. That was a growing pain for Emby, so it was another reason I kept plex for music. Is there a good alternative to plex for music?", "context": "", "use_case": "video media server", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Plex laid off the whole player team"}, {"id": 783871826, "item_id": 48991989, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991989", "by": "phsau", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "It's already significantly better than Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby.", "excerpt": "It's already significantly better than Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. Give it a try. The development team is active on their Discord. A lot of users are testing it. It's currently running a PB+ media library (which neither Jellyfin nor Emby can run) with native clients across multiple platforms. It will unseat Jellyfin.", "context": "", "use_case": "media server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 783852049, "item_id": 48990753, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990753", "by": "amiga386", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It is throwing off the janky architecture of Emby, one part at a time.", "excerpt": "The title here is burying the lede and should be updated to something like \"Jellyfin founder, project leader and core contributer all leave the project\". It's not just Andrew [Rabert] leaving. This is an announcement by Joshua Boniface (the current project lead) and Anthony Lavado (a core contributor) announcing that they're leaving too. 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