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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Jellyfin is so much better anyway. I used plex for years and it has steadily enshitified.
I tried jellyfin but didn't like it. Currently using emby and it works well.
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So the media that I host is now no longer streamable when I am outside my home network? The fuck?
That's my server, my bandwidth, my electricity and they are blocking it?
That's enshittification for ya.
Meanwhile, all "lifetime pass" holders are encouraging this, while they have no skin in the game.
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Think I'd rather pay that towards the development of Jellyfin
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You bought a lifetime subscription. Are you dead?
The word "lifetime", when talking about permanent subscriptions, always refers to the lifetime of the service (or provider), rather than the lifetime of the subscriber.
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Yea as expected
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Think I'd rather pay that towards the development of Jellyfin
I used to curse and scream at my jellyfin software and apps, now I swear by them.
I took a day out of my life, not even a full day lol, and just watched countless YouTube videos on how to set it up and how to customize it how I like.
Now it's my absolute favorite. I'm learning about building a home server and all that jazz now and I feel nostalgic, like a kid building his first computer lol!
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Thats fair. I haven't really noticed any of those issues. For my use case of just organizing and streaming my desktop's media library to my TV, its fantastic.
Oh don't get me wrong it does the job and if I didn't already have a lifetime Plex pass I'd highly consider it over Plex for being free, I just don't think it does it better than Plex (with a Plex pass)
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I highly doubt that. Neither instance has permission to alter the files, that's managed separately. Neither instance has any interaction with the other. Jellyfish is fine for playback thus far, but it has shortcomings on library management and client app spread.
Just because you've been lucky enough to not encounter them, has nothing to do with whether issues or shortcomings exist. I'm glad you like Jellyfish and that anecdotally it works well for you, but you don't have to blindly defend it and make up excuses for why it doesn't work as well as plex in some cases or work as well for other people's situations.
could be an issue recognizing the show on jellyfin's side. I would recommend labeling the folder with the tvdbid and re-adding it.
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The most infuriating thing about Plex for me was when they shifted to force you to start with their BS streaming service at open. I only used Plex for my personal media collection. So having to jump through a bunch of menus to get to the only thing I want to use in their app was the biggest reason to switch for me. Maybe there is a way to fix that, but I could never find one.
Jellyfin just does your personal media library and opens right up into it when the app starts. Its simpler, faster, and FOSS.
For Plex just unpin the default channels, and leave your local media libraries pinned.
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So they think it's acceptable to charge people to access their own files. Good Luck with that morons.
I thought I read that there’s no charge if on the same network. It’s just for accessing your files remotely from other networks.
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Honestly I've tried jellyfin and I have a hard time agreeing with this for a few reasons:
- UI generally more unresponsive than Plex;
- changes to correct a show/movie being assigned the wrong show/movie metadata very slow to propagate if at all, same for changing other library options like title language preference;
- generally slower to buffer and get into videos;
- very rough android lollipop UI;
- not as easy to set up tech illiterate friends for play together.
I'll give you that morally jellyfin is less customer-adverse than Plex management is at the moment and it is more open in some ways so you can have more plugins and add-ons that Plex lacks, and sure it's a free product so it should be given some leeway, but if I just listened to all of the people saying jellyfin is just so much better I'd think it was an objectively better offering, but it's not. When it comes to what I care about, it fell short, so just giving my 2 cents. Still worth trying, considering you can just point it to the same media folders, but yeah not god's gift on earth.
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could be an issue recognizing the show on jellyfin's side. I would recommend labeling the folder with the tvdbid and re-adding it.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will review the docs and see what can be improved.
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I tried jellyfin but didn't like it. Currently using emby and it works well.
I used Plex before I got tired of it requiring a remote network connection to work in my home network (no remote). I switched to emby a few years ago, and I'm tired of it too: Subtitle is a pain, filtering is a nightmare, integration with sonarr/radarr and configuration is annoying...
I've started developing my own streaming server, playback is working nice through the browser from server to tvlaptop. I'm going to integrate Transmission UI into it, and show/movie management, to get rid of sonnarr/radarr and maybe I'll manage to get rid of jackett too, so tired of this cumbersome stack. I want it all integrated into a single server with a single interface.
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That's enshittification for ya.
Meanwhile, all "lifetime pass" holders are encouraging this, while they have no skin in the game.
Anyone investing in a lifetime pass because of these changes is really making a really bad decision. Plex is not going to get better. These shitty decisions will keep coming and eventually it will be something that affects the lifetime users.
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Before everyone had to pay for the apps. Im not saying this change is good but it’s also not all bad.
How do you work that out?
I paid for the app so that I can play media on the go. Now that payment meant nothing and I should now pay a monthly fee instead.
Anyone new to Plex who doesn't want a subscription can only play media when they are at home.
Jellyfin is the future. Plex is dead to me.
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The word "lifetime", when talking about permanent subscriptions, always refers to the lifetime of the service (or provider), rather than the lifetime of the subscriber.
Are they dead?
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So they think it's acceptable to charge people to access their own files. Good Luck with that morons.
Yeah this is why I don't use Plex.
At one point I installed it on my NAS. It goes through the setup, and then says I need to make a cloud account. Wtf? I am running locally hosted software on locally hosted hardware to access locally hosted files. Why do I need any cloud for this?
I don't. I uninstalled it.
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The most infuriating thing about Plex for me was when they shifted to force you to start with their BS streaming service at open. I only used Plex for my personal media collection. So having to jump through a bunch of menus to get to the only thing I want to use in their app was the biggest reason to switch for me. Maybe there is a way to fix that, but I could never find one.
Jellyfin just does your personal media library and opens right up into it when the app starts. Its simpler, faster, and FOSS.
You can disable the streaming completely if you really want to. It’s in your preferences. Or just move it farther down the list, or hide it completely by unpinning it as a source.
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Anyone investing in a lifetime pass because of these changes is really making a really bad decision. Plex is not going to get better. These shitty decisions will keep coming and eventually it will be something that affects the lifetime users.
I got one a very long time ago, when it was cheap and seemed like a good investment in an up-and-coming ecosystem. It's worked out for me, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone else, at this point.
I'm just waiting for them to find a way to reneg on the pass and then I'm off to Jellyfin like everyone else.
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I thought I read that there’s no charge if on the same network. It’s just for accessing your files remotely from other networks.
And if server host doesn't have premium.
