Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature
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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
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Although Plex is running on your server it isn't there to do what you want.. unless Plex's real owner permits it.
That's how proprietary software works.
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Did it download the original file or are there download options transcoded on the server?
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Id love to have the federated libraries in jellyfin. That would be amazing.
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Jellyfin has had sync play for a long time
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As soon as Jellyfin allows downloads for offline viewing
Time to jump ship then...
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Ada is a Jellyfin user? We’re in good hands.
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default apps download original files, no transcode options.
Streamyfin claims download any file transcoded as long as your server can transcode it. Haven't tested it myself.
