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Kodi is a media player, not a media server. There's a plugin to use kodi as a front-end to jellyfin media server.

But Kodi can just play files off an attached/networked storage and collects all the metadata if need be, so what's the difference?

As answered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21988656, it has benefits if you have multiple clients.