Plex and Emby in parallel Operation

[0x3]

After a few years of Plex, I play with the thought of switching back to Emby.

 

Plex is becoming more and more bloatware and I get extremely annoyed by the lack of an offline login. In addition, I simply don't use most of the features of Plex. Now I want to give Emby again a try and install it in parallel.

 

Does the test work if the library is embedded as read-only in Emby? What data does Emby write into the library folders? Does someone run both in parallel and have some tips for me?

 

Thanks in advance.

[0x3]

Just found this thread and it looks like there is a DB only option:

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/106174-metadata-and-images-location/

[CS01-HS]

Yes. By default I think only subtitles save to the library directories but you can disable that.

 

And consider this to synchronize watch state between the two:

(It's not in the app store so you have to install manually)

https://github.com/ArabCoders/watchstate

 

But backup your watch states beforehand because a misconfiguration could reset it.

[JonathanM]

10 hours ago, 0x3 said:

Plex is becoming more and more bloatware and I get extremely annoyed by the lack of an offline login.

Since you are looking at options, I recommend giving jellyfin a try as well. I have a premier Emby setup, but have jellyfin as a backup if Emby doesn't want to act right for some reason. I like the totally free model of jellyfin, even if it doesn't have all the options of the paid stuff.

[0x3]

I just installed Emby as read-only and that works so far.

 

19 hours ago, CS01-HS said:

Yes. By default I think only subtitles save to the library directories but you can disable that.

 

Thank you. Watch state is not so important to me. However, I've customised a lot of covers, because I don't like names, channel logos or FSK information on the covers. But I might just have to configure them again.

 

12 hours ago, JonathanM said:

Since you are looking at options, I recommend giving jellyfin a try as well.

 

Because of the open source idea, I was also on Jellyfin, but I had some problems with it. But that was a few years ago. Maybe I'll take the opportunity and give Jellyfin another chance. Thanks.

 

Edited August 23, 2023 by 0x3