Ahoy mateys, it’s time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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    15 hours ago

    Still don’t get why people use Plex over Jellyfin

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      In my own house, or just myself. Jellyfin is fine. I haven’t spent as much time on it though compared to Plex.

      Plex has its own user auth, I don’t need to manage that. My friends and family don’t have to hit me up for password resets.

      It has apps on pretty much every device.

      Users can just log in. They don’t need to know what server to type in.

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        Yer it’s clear people who go on about not understanding either have small circles of users, or don’t actually support people…

        You aren’t getting Pop and Nan to understand how to troubleshoot or setup Jellyfin access on their old TV compared to just throwing in a Chromecast or fire stick and having Plex auto logon with an account you setup for them if the couldn’t. Makes life a ton easier, even at the cost of other liberties.

        They just want to watch Zulu or Are you being Served again, nothing more.

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        10 hours ago

        TIL that jellyfin doesn’t support an actual password reset. I’ve never had to actually try. That’s somewhat disappointing.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s a lot easier to setup and get non-techy family to join. Setting up Jellyfin is easy until you want access outside your LAN. Setting up TLS or a VPN is a hassle I don’t want unless there is no other option. Plex has features I (and my family) use that jellyfin doesn’t support by default yet. Last I checked syncing of files for offline viewing in the official app wasn’t very good yet. Plex has a bunch of ad supported live streams baked in that aren’t too bad. There is a “How It’s Made” channel, a Mythbusters channel, and Top Gear channel. PlexAmp isn’t perfect, but it’s better than any of the Jellyfin options I’ve seen.

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      13 hours ago

      I am a lifetime Plex Pass User… I am not affected by their BS… Yet (watch together is going though).

    • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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      12 hours ago

      Because comparitively, jellyfin sucks.

      Once they reach some semblance of feature parity, then you can in good faith ask this question.

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        7 hours ago

        Jellyfin does everything it needs to. Movies, tv, metadata, music. What else?

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          2 hours ago

          that is the most basic list of features… if something implemented only that list id consider it an alpha

          the thing im waiting on to switch is skip buttons on intro/outro/etc across all platforms i care about

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      10 hours ago

      I will make the switch once they revoke my lifetime pass, but in the meantime I’m really hoping that Jellyfin gets a face lift. I’ve tested Jellyfin a good bit and it mostly has feature parity for everything I care about, but it’s UI is objectively uglier than Plex’s

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      14 hours ago

      Inertia, mostly.

      Of course Plex then takes advantage of that with the slow erosion of the free edition.

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      13 hours ago

      I paid Plex Pass Lifetime for peanuts (maybe $50 or $75) a decade ago, not using it would mean wasting that so yeah…

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      Because some of us bought the lifetime Plex Pass for cheap many years ago and it’s what our family is used to. Plex also passes the “wife test”, and my kids use Plexamp on their phones for music.

      Not gonna stop me from ditching Plex in the not-too-distant future though, once I figure out Jellyfin and another local music streaming app that doesn’t have an interface stuck in 1997.

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        7 hours ago

        bad take, jellyfin is great.

      • Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13 hours ago

        I didn’t realize my setup wasn’t usable. What does plex offer that makes the usability so much better? I considered plex for my newish setup but if anything, all the privacy controversies and charging for features was more unusable to me than anything I’ve noticed with Jellyfin

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          3 hours ago

          Client Support is way better, Hardware transcoding is more reliable and easier to set up (as in you don’t have to in Plex), UI/UX is better (if you can live with removing Plex’ stuff once from your homescreen), that also means the settings, which I find convoluted in Jellyfin. The media matching is way worse and I won’t go through thousands of folder to rename them just because Jellyfin only accepts one singular way to name things

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      12 hours ago

      It syncs all movie covers and metadata automatically. When I used jellyfin last, this was a struggle.

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        10 hours ago

        It’s only an issue if the files aren’t properly named. If you’re using *arr this won’t be an issue. E.g. “Title (Year) - TMBD/TVDB ID” works flawlessly.

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          9 hours ago

          That’s good to hear. I’ve got an arr setup so this is promising whenever plex becomes unusable to me.