I bought Plex pass years ago for £79. The new price of $749.99 is INSANE.
No wonder all the cool people are using Jellyfin.
Wait what. $750? I think I paid like $100 years ago. Damn.
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Roon did this and it made me stop using Roon.
Home assistant +music assistant is better now, and has fully replaced that for free.
Goodbye, shit companies.
who is this for?
those unicorn users who make 150k++ a year and pirate all their media and then wanna share it with their friends that they don't have?
To be fair there are plenty of users who rip their own media. But sentiment stands
Sure if plenty means less then 10. Most people just stream from one of the providers.
travelling salesmen who pirate all their media??
I do wonder if this is a last ditch effort cash grab before they go under or a "we really thought we'd be acquired by now so now we have to plan ahead" move.
I like jellyfin
Plex works just fine without a subscription. What is the subscription even for?
Downloads for Offline Viewing (jellyfin has this for free) and Remote Access (stream videos while outside of your home network, you can just use tailwind with jellyfin for free)
What is this ‘offline’ thing I keep hearing about?
You can download episodes/movies to your device for offline playback. Not groundbreaking, you could just copy the files to your device manually, but if you do it via the plex app it will sync your watch progress once you connect again.
You can also use it to bulk-download shows from other people's libraries.
Why would I need to copy the files to my media player when it can just stream from my NAS directly, regardless of internet connection.
Well if you don't leave the house I'm sure that's fine. Some people use it to watch stuff when they're away, or if they have a job that lets them play something while they work.
I do leave the house but I generally don’t bring my home cinema with me.
I used it when I travel abroad and want to watch something, like when you're on a plane or train with shitty internet or roaming charges.
If you host a server and have a lifetime pass, you'll be able to share your collection with anyone. It will allow hardware encoding so less lag on your users end. You can also locally download content on your devices to watch offline.
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Even now - at the peak point of the Memory/SSD price bubble - about 1/3 of that lifetime pass buys you enough dedicated hardware to do it yourself for at least the next decade, probably more.
Hahahahahahahha
Been on jellyfin since day one. Works fine, UI is great and gets the job done. TV UI maybe not top notch, buy usable. Mobile UI just fine and usable.
Also, exposed on the internet (reverse proxy, OIDC, https the works) for years now with zero issues whatsoever as well .
There are a few users always throwing thrash on jellyfin, maybe pissed off users that paid for Plex, or Plex shills that like to denigrate jellyfin, I don't know.
Just ignore them.
Jellyfin is perfectly usable, yes you need to setup port forward, VPN or whatever, but it's exactly our target audience so move along and stop bitching, Plex shills.
Stay with Plex, use jellyfin, whatever fit your bill.
Anyway plex does not fit my concept of self hosting to be free from cloud lock ins.
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i just need a video player on my tv that pulls shit from my computer why do people think that's worth SUBSCRIPTIONS
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