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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As long as you have PP, users streaming remotely from your server can do so without PP (or the mobile app unlock). The client user charge is only for accessing servers that don’t have PP. Still insane they’re charging anything at all for streaming private content from a private server to a private client though.
Thank god for jellyfin. I have a feeling plex would have gone a lot harder with this update if there was no competition.
I missed that part of the article and had a user point it out. Still really dumb of Plex to charge more for something that has little overhead for them, greedy assholes.
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Atm Xbox is my most reliable media player. PlayStation isn't quite there, but would be a nice to have. My parents aren't very tech literate and they use their smart TV/cable box. I have a friend with an older Roku/smart stick that's incompatible. Have they added an app for Apple TV yet?
There is an app, but it’s not receiving updates at the moment. They’re doing a complete re-write. The iOS app has been released, and it’s fantastic.
The Infuse app is a great band-aid for the time being. -
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.
free (as in beer)
wut
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I need client side apps and easily sharing libraries with remote friends. Both are pretty hard to give up and not quite there yet.
LDAP can be used, which isn’t bad. There are plenty of options. It’ll never be as easy as letting a 3rd party handle it for you. But, that’s a pro in my book.
I agree the client side apps are taking some time, but the developers are absolute gems.
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jellyfin > plex
Sure. Except in the ways it isn't.
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Jellyfin has native apps for Android, Android TV and iOS.
Does Plex offer native apps (that aren't just stripped down browsers) for more platforms?
Not sure whether they are stripped browser versions, but I can use plex on ps4, xbox. I use my ps4 for all my streaming so jellyfin not being in there means more annoyance for me. I have Jellyfin setup side by side with plex, accessing the same content and Plex displays it all properly while jellyfish does funky shit like displaying multiple entries for a single show (it had nearly 50 entries until I manually reworked a ton of filename shit), or fucking up and showing box art and a title for a porn movie instead of the actual movie which was Princess Mononoke. There may be settings that help with this buried somewhere but for now it's definitely more of a pain to use.
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No love for Emby here?
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Plexamp. Genuinely my favorite audio player since Winamp.
There's 'finamp' for jellyfin which I really like so far.
I haven't used plexamp though, so I can't vouch for it as an alternative.
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I see Jellyfin suggested as an alternative to Plex here. I hope it is one day.
At the moment it’s nowhere close.
I’ve been running Jellyfin side-by-side Plex for two years and it’s still not a viable replacement for anyone but me. Parents, my partner, none of the possible solutions for them come anywhere near close to the usability of Plex.
That will likely change because plex is getting worse every day. More noise, more useless features.
But at the moment it really isn’t close for most folks who are familiar with the slickness of commercial apps.
Even from the administrative side, Jellyfin takes massively more system resources and it doesn’t reliably work with all my files.
Again, Jellyfin will get there it’s just not a drop in replacement for most folks yet.
And for context I started my DIY streaming / hosting life with a first gen Apple TV (pretty much a Mac mini with component video outs) that eventually got XBMC and then Boxee installed on it. I even have the forksaken Boxee box.
I'm not trying to be a dick, but in what ways is Jellyfin vastly inferior to Plex? I haven't used Plex before but Jellyfin does everything me and my family need from a streaming service.
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free (as in beer)
wut
There are 2 types of "free". Liberty, and price. "Free as in beer" means they mean the price version of the word. It's a really old saying now.
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Jellyfin is free.
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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
Yes, Intro Skipper plugin. It's awesome.
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No love for Emby here?
I have a lifetime membership to Emby premium. I just switched to Jellyfin. Emby is kind of dead in the water as far as development. Not abandoned but not really forging ahead. And it doesn't have as much community plug-in support. If you like the features as they are, it's a good platform. I got enough years out of my premium payment to not fully regret it, but I'm not going to let it anchor me to a stale feature set. I don't need the support and I can always fall back to it if I have to.
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Does Jellyfin have remote play? I've had a lifetime PP for years now, but most of my users don't. I will be installing Jellyfin tomorrow to run parallel until it can be a full replacement, or just forever.
I just was asking someone on here a few weeks back if switching off Plex while already having a PP was worth it. I think the gist was no rush since it's working, but this news is my canary.
You have to set it up yourself. It does not have remote access through someone else's servers like Emby and Plex do.
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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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I'm not trying to be a dick, but in what ways is Jellyfin vastly inferior to Plex? I haven't used Plex before but Jellyfin does everything me and my family need from a streaming service.
Was trying to get a friend to switch to jellyfin the other day and it turns out he's got a weird Hisense projector that uses VIDAA OS, which does not have a jellyfin app, but DOES have a Plex app. I imagine setups like this are probably limiting Jellyfin's adoption. VIDAA is actually less niche than I thought as well, heaps of cheap-ish TVs and projectors are running it.
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There's 'finamp' for jellyfin which I really like so far.
I haven't used plexamp though, so I can't vouch for it as an alternative.
For Android users there's Symfonium which I find really great
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Deceptive title. If the person hosting the server has Plex pass then it's still free for other users to use remote playback.
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https://jellyfin.org/
Great alternative to Plex!Wish they had a client for PS5.
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Deceptive title. If the person hosting the server has Plex pass then it's still free for other users to use remote playback.
How is it deceptive? No plex pass on the server? No remote streaming.
