Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.
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I run jellyfin in a container and it is amazing. Give it a try.
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I paid for a lifetime membership to Plex in 2012--$75. I stopped using it around 2015, mostly because I hated that I didn't have access to software running on my server, meant to serve my media, without an internet connection. I knew that meant worse was coming in the future.
I don't regret switching to Jellyfin.
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This might be a good time to remind everyone that Jellyfin is open source, free (as in beer) and is, at this point, a better media streamer than Plex. No fees, no ads, no constant pushing of their streaming content, and still has the watch together feature that Plex went and removed.
TBH Plex is years ahead on maturity, their dev team is excellent, unfortunately it seems like enshittification has begun for them.
Support Jellyfin not because it’s better, but because it’s open source and it puts users and tech first. Don’t expect it to beat Plex’s performance, quality, or cross-platform availability yet, but expect it to become better as more people donate or get involved.
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How else would they continue developing their social features that no one fucking asked for?
People gotta justify their jobs!
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https://jellyfin.org/
Great alternative to Plex!I paid for a lifetime Plex Pass years and years ago now, I've definitely gotten my money's worth.
That being said, I fully expect more bullshit like this, up to and including ending my "lifetime" pass.
When that comes to pass, I'm so glad Jellyfin will be available for me to use.
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TBH Plex is years ahead on maturity, their dev team is excellent, unfortunately it seems like enshittification has begun for them.
Support Jellyfin not because it’s better, but because it’s open source and it puts users and tech first. Don’t expect it to beat Plex’s performance, quality, or cross-platform availability yet, but expect it to become better as more people donate or get involved.
What's better, exactly?
I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn't quite as nice, everything else is better.
And I don't have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware... -
Feeling glad I bought my lifetime license like two years ago
Was the price the same then as it is now? $120 USD? Based on the article, the price will only raise at the end of April.
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TBH Plex is years ahead on maturity, their dev team is excellent, unfortunately it seems like enshittification has begun for them.
Support Jellyfin not because it’s better, but because it’s open source and it puts users and tech first. Don’t expect it to beat Plex’s performance, quality, or cross-platform availability yet, but expect it to become better as more people donate or get involved.
I cannot upvote this enough. "Just migrate to X, it's every bit as good!" when end users know it's not is a disingenuous argument and even if they don't have the technical know-how to explain exactly why they feel this way, they'll feel the deception. It only reinforces a growing distrust in tech.
The argument has to be made honestly. It's not quite as good, but almost. Those few things you'll miss will require an adjustment, but the overall value (a lot of times just literally, it costs less!) will become evident.
I know we're all Linux nerds here and enthused to get people onboard, but the battle right now we're facing is one of trust and security and must be grounded in those notions because while great strides have been made in convenience and accessibility, big corps will always be able to bankroll themselves over those points.
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What's better, exactly?
I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn't quite as nice, everything else is better.
And I don't have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware...Honestly, I don't really understand how people prefer the Plex UI to Jellyfin. No shade, it just doesn't make sense to me. Plex is incredibly cluttered and busy. Jellyfin is simple and clean. I like the latter a lot more.
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Was the price the same then as it is now? $120 USD? Based on the article, the price will only raise at the end of April.
I bought it for $90 in 2020.
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Does Jellyfin have good skip intro functionality for TV shows? That was the main thing keeping me from switching last time I considered a couple years ago
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I paid for a lifetime Plex Pass years and years ago now, I've definitely gotten my money's worth.
That being said, I fully expect more bullshit like this, up to and including ending my "lifetime" pass.
When that comes to pass, I'm so glad Jellyfin will be available for me to use.
I also paid for a lifetime pass and still switched to Jellyfin last year. I find it's quite a bit better than Plex. The UI leaves a bit to be desired, but the performance for me is way better.
I'd suggest giving it a try
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TBH Plex is years ahead on maturity, their dev team is excellent, unfortunately it seems like enshittification has begun for them.
Support Jellyfin not because it’s better, but because it’s open source and it puts users and tech first. Don’t expect it to beat Plex’s performance, quality, or cross-platform availability yet, but expect it to become better as more people donate or get involved.
Its weird how people complain more with the current state of plex compared to if they just required a plex pass for everything.
My ONLY complaint is that they have new features enabled by default.
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TBH Plex is years ahead on maturity, their dev team is excellent, unfortunately it seems like enshittification has begun for them.
Support Jellyfin not because it’s better, but because it’s open source and it puts users and tech first. Don’t expect it to beat Plex’s performance, quality, or cross-platform availability yet, but expect it to become better as more people donate or get involved.
The only thing Plex has on Jellyfin are client apps. Sever-side… Jellyfin hands down. I was super surprised to see av1 transcoding support… In Plex we JUST got HEVC.
I’m not hating on Plex by any means, but when I have an issue with Plex, Jellyfin picks up the slack. I’ll be using Jellyfin full time after the ATV app re-write.
I am curious, though, what is it that makes you think Jellyfin’s software is inferior? Since I’ve been following, Jellyfin has released new features long before Plex.
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Todays word of the day is.....Enshitification!
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I bought it for $90 in 2020.
Yeah, I remember when it was $75 but didn't jump on it then. Back then I didn't think they'd ever charge for basic functionality that was offered for free for 10 years. I don't regret not getting it though, this is the kick I need over to Jellyfin.
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What's better, exactly?
I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn't quite as nice, everything else is better.
And I don't have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware...The reason I'm not switching yet, is that there's no federated auth. If they had that, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
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The reason I'm not switching yet, is that there's no federated auth. If they had that, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
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Todays word of the day is.....Enshitification!
That's the word of this decade.
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The reason I'm not switching yet, is that there's no federated auth. If they had that, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Simple auth was honestly one of the upsides for me.
Plex claims to have an offline mode, but I could never got it to work, for some reason.
And I got pissed off one too many times when my Internet went down and I couldn't watch anything from the NAS a few meters away...
