Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature
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Just an FYI that you can definitely download shows/movies to any device via Jellyfin - just did so on my tablet yesterday...jump ship!!
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Is there some trick to get it to work properly? Everytime I tried to use it, it works fine for like 10 minutes and then everyone desyncs to hell.
It's still better than Plex's which didn't work at all though.
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Misquotes are unlikely thanks to copy-paste. The post from Plex has been edited, so I think it was to correct that typo.
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I never used that feature. Sometimes less is more. Anyone actively using it in plex or Jelly?
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More often than not that is corporate speak for "we fired the old team and replaced them with cheaper workers. And we didn't want to pay them to learn the old code/they tried but failed, so we are dumping features now"
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As soon as Jellyfin allows downloads for offline viewing, I’m jumping ship.
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I've had a Lifetime PlexPass since 2013, so I've definitely had my moneys worth and then some, but for the last 2 years I’ve been dual wielding Jellyfin and watching it slowly get to the point where I can move over entirely.
I'm 100% Jellyfin now for my personal playback at home, and will be transitioning users over to it as soon as it gets a few more user management features for remote users.
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For music, offline play is already available via Finamp. For everything else I'm personally making due with the regular Download feature that just gives yout the raw files. But then again it doesn't really come up often, since I don't really consume anything but audiobooks when I'm on the go.
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I never used it, but it was a popular third party add-on before the feature was integrated.
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Ah, that makes sense. I didn't realize we had asked for a new UI, here I was thinking we just wanted basic quality of life updates
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Lame. I’ve used this feature a lot. It feels like such a basic thing to include.
SharePlay is a standard feature in Apple devices, and it handles it. But only in supported apps.
The pandemic showed how nice such a feature can be for a lot of people.
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Yeah I don’t even used the SharePlay on Apple. Question for people using it: How do you start that? First do you start over phone/whatsapp/messengers? Or do you see people online in plex and propose to watch? For me either people are in different timezone so not practical or will be home and we watch it irl sync on the same tv.
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I know Findroid allows easy downloading and offline watching. Fladder (another newer Android client) also has downloading, haven't tried it myself yet.
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This is a feature that Jellyfin natively has already. So now Jellyfin exceeds Plex in some areas.
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What hell is wrong with these idiots?
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They took private investment.
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The android app has had downloads for years, they just download the entire file to your phone.
Streamyfin is a newer android app that also works very well with downloads.
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Honestly, the two reasons I've been sticking with Plex is the federated/shared libraries and watch together.
If they're starting to axe those then I see no reason to continue using it.
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Removing old features so we can bring them back as paid features later on.
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Ah, strange.
I've never had any issues, but I also haven't used it in a while.
Might be related to transcoding/sub-burning? https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/issues/6210
