I migrated to Jellyfin from Plex several months ago and I’ve been struggling to get a good experience on my my Apple TV which is where I watch most of my content. I’ve been using the native Swiftfin app and I’m sorry but it’s awful. Lots of serious usability issues and there hasn’t been a release in over 4 months. I can’t anymore with it.

Gave infuse a try and it seems a lot more polished but it’s a subscription model and I don’t do software subscriptions, especially for something that’s accessing my local data. Not opposed to buying outright but it’s a bit steep at $94. I’ll gladly spend that if it’s worth it, but has anyone noticed any serious issues with Infuse that should make me steer away?

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[–] rlhe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

I don't do subs either, but I think Infuse is so good I made the one exception. I've been using it for about a year and haven't had any issues. It does everything I've wanted it to do. However, at $10/yr for the subscription, that lifetime price is way too ridiculous. I'll pay the sub and move on to whatever looks better each time the subscription is up for renewal.

I've also read various app reviews that lifetime only applies to the current version (i.e. 7.x), so you'd have to pay lifetime again for the v8. I can't verify this of course, so take it with a pound of salt.

The only irritation I've had with Infuse is that it only understands "aired date" metadata. If you have something in "dvd order" it can't download that. This is a problem people have complained about for quite a while. I don't think this is an issue for you though since I think you're getting your metadata from JF anyway so Infuse doesn't have to do it?