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I was admittedly being a bit of a smartass, I don't actually think jellyfin is doing anything particularly special.
It's free, it's open source, it doesn't try to upsell me or show me ads, it's fast, it has personalized user accounts, it organizes and presents media beautifully and plays it flawlessly on whatever device I choose to use. For me, idk what more I could ask for from a media server.
EDIT: looking at Emby premier, seems $ provides hardware transcoding, native apps, downloading media for offline, cover arts, database backup, I guess this is stuff I take for granted. Jellyfin just includes it. If jellyfin couldn't do transcoding or native app playback OOTB I don't think I'd use it.
Edit2: for context I moved from kodi to jellyfin just a couple years ago, I wasn't aware of it's FOSS-fork relationship to Emby before now.
The weird thing is I get cover art and hardware transcoding with Emby but I've never paid. I know it has it because 4k playback was lagging until I enabled it ๐คทโโ๏ธ and it would be weird to imagine emby without cover art of any kind. Doesn't every media app just scrape by title? Is this referring to something else?
I also use the native emby app on my phone, I think my smart TV has it too, unpaid. Man, I'm really confused about their paid features lol everything I think would be needed seems to be in native Emby as well. So weird.
Good to know though, I could see downloading for offline use being very useful for travel and stuff.