Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?
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Just buy the lifetime Plex pass before the price goes up then.
spend money to pirate now before you have to spend even more money to pirate later
️pLeX iS aWeSoMe!
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Agreed. It encourages that behavior.
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spend money to pirate now before you have to spend even more money to pirate later
️pLeX iS aWeSoMe!
This is like complaining that you have to spend money on HDDs or a VPN.
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This is like complaining that you have to spend money on HDDs or a VPN.
Not really. Or at all. Both of those are multi-purpose devices which you can use for other things. A plex license is singularly for Plex. It doesn't do anything more for you than to stream your own media, something you can already accomplish for free.
Of all the examples you could have chosen you essentially picked the worst two.
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This is like complaining that you have to spend money on HDDs or a VPN.
It’s not the same at all.
Plex practically doubled their prices to access features that users previously had for free.
Can’t remember the last time a HDD manufacturer put previously free features behind a paywall or when a Mullvad doubled its prices.
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Given the recent news about Plex soon charging for remote access, I wanted to finish up my switch to Jellyfin.
What tools/methods have you all used to migrate watch history to Jellyfin?
I have a few family members in there, and would like to get everything switched over without resetting their watch history.
All the folks saying "just buy the lifetime pass" gonna be in for a big disappointment in about 5 years
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Just buy the lifetime Plex Pass before the price hike and you're golden.
"just give the bully more money and he'll stop bullying"
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I don't agree. They're only affecting people who haven't been paying and it's an excellent service. They're even giving you a heads up so you're not caught offgaurd. It's not even 9 months of Netflix and it's valid for lifetime. If you can't afford it, that's one thing. If that's the case move to JF and move on. I find Plex is very much worth the cost.
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"just give the bully more money and he'll stop bullying"
Bully lol. Such hyperbole.
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Bully lol. Such hyperbole.
It's quite similar scenario. This service is getting shittier to use, so you recommend paying more
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This is like complaining that you have to spend money on HDDs or a VPN.
Really I think we are going to see an increase in jellyfin uptake given the changes which is great for that project
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I don't agree. They're only affecting people who haven't been paying and it's an excellent service. They're even giving you a heads up so you're not caught offgaurd. It's not even 9 months of Netflix and it's valid for lifetime. If you can't afford it, that's one thing. If that's the case move to JF and move on. I find Plex is very much worth the cost.
Pay even more money for the inferior product. Good advice.
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It's quite similar scenario. This service is getting shittier to use, so you recommend paying more
It's not getting shittier, they're just asking for you to pay because you haven't been paying. If anything, the service is improving. I paid once and never have to pay again and I'm saving a ton needing to pay for Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Paramount, AppleTV etc. etc.
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It's not getting shittier, they're just asking for you to pay because you haven't been paying. If anything, the service is improving. I paid once and never have to pay again and I'm saving a ton needing to pay for Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Paramount, AppleTV etc. etc.
Well, the addition of Plex Movies and Live Channels is certainly shittier.
What’s the reason for $120 to stream my local files to a friend or family member? What exactly does Plex do in this process that would warrant a cost?
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Pay even more money for the inferior product. Good advice.
Crying about a non-issue isn't exactly going to change anything is it? Plex is an awesome service or you wouldn't have been using it.
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Well, the addition of Plex Movies and Live Channels is certainly shittier.
What’s the reason for $120 to stream my local files to a friend or family member? What exactly does Plex do in this process that would warrant a cost?
Their default Movies and Live Channels are bad, but that's not why we're using Plex right?
$120 is to support the platform and it provides the option to download movies/tv shows locally and allows for Transcoding to name but 2 benefits. It's also got clients for pretty much every device out there.
If you can't afford $120 for life then that's too bad. Move to JF.
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Their default Movies and Live Channels are bad, but that's not why we're using Plex right?
$120 is to support the platform and it provides the option to download movies/tv shows locally and allows for Transcoding to name but 2 benefits. It's also got clients for pretty much every device out there.
If you can't afford $120 for life then that's too bad. Move to JF.
I’m still confused. Plex isn’t hosting any of my files, so why would remote users downloading them cost Plex anything? If they Direct Stream, there’s no transcoding involved. And if transcoding is involved, and I am not paying for Plex Pass, doesn’t that just happen directly on my server? I don’t see any reason why Plex is charging for my server doing work. Bizarre.
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All the folks saying "just buy the lifetime pass" gonna be in for a big disappointment in about 5 years
Won't take that long before the enshittification is complete.
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I’m still confused. Plex isn’t hosting any of my files, so why would remote users downloading them cost Plex anything? If they Direct Stream, there’s no transcoding involved. And if transcoding is involved, and I am not paying for Plex Pass, doesn’t that just happen directly on my server? I don’t see any reason why Plex is charging for my server doing work. Bizarre.
They aren't charging users to cover their costs to stream your data from your server. It's to help them with their developper costs. Transcoding is something your server does and it's only unlocked with Plex Pass so if you don't have that, you can't use it anyway. I have only 4k movies so if I want to watch them at any resolution smaller than 4k, I need transcoding which was the primary reason I got the pass. They can also proxy your connection in case you have issues connecting directly so they are somewhat using their own resources for that. They offer a great service at a very low price, much lower than Netflix and it's much better. Everyone that connects to my plex server love the experience so it's well worth it for me. If it's not worth it for you, that's cool. Use something like JF and then deal with a lack of device support and any other issues that come with JF. I hear it's a also a great service but I also hear there are more issues with JF than Plex so I'm happy with Plex.
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All the folks saying "just buy the lifetime pass" gonna be in for a big disappointment in about 5 years
Yep. Enshitification behavior doesn't cease once you're technically a paying customer. If they hadn't made a habit of enshitification. Clawing features away to put behind a paywall I'd give them some support. But I prefer foss anyhow. And for myself, I'm not missing anything.
