@highway2009 @sponkae yeah, #plex feels like a trap right now, they centralise auth, gather data of what you watch, and are cozying up with the studios more and more.
I moved to #jellyfin a few months ago and it’s totally stand alone with no features behind a paywall.
I just watched Unsolved Mysteries - Episode #45 (S02E07)!
I’ve seen Mastodon, Pixelfed devs and admins have to repeatedly ask for help with the costs for creating and running things and getting grief when they do so. It’s a particular bugbear of mine, that people can’t undertstand someone, somewhere along the line is forking out money to support what they take for granted and for free! Whoever cracks micropayments for FOSS that are fast, safe and secure will change the Internet for us all. /end #Plex #Jellyfin
It’s been a journey with them but Plex is an intrinsic part of my set up. The company’s financial model was prob unsustainable especially with the low cost of a Lifetime Pass which I think cost me £79 back in the day. In the last year we saw layoffs and a strategic rethink after some missteps. It was at this time I set up Jellyfin as a just in case option. We have to figure out better ways to support software devs. It costs money to make things. Devs shouldn’t need to beg! /2 #Plex #Jellyfin
I say this as someone who has both #Plex and #Jellyfin set up on my server. I am beyond tired of the overreactions and at times childish bloviating to Plex changing their pricing and free offering this past week. I’ve used Plex for 12 years. It was free to download and install. Allowed me to watch my DVD/Blurays without having to swap out disks. Game changer. I then purchased a Plex Lifetime Pass to help support the software. They struggled at first with 4K but now very solid and reliable. /1
Glad I favorited what is essentially Plex's ESPN 8 "The Ocho" channel.
Currently watching World Jai Alai League.
In the wake of #Plex's plans to grossly overcharge people for lifetime subs to their service, I checked out #Jellyfin again - this is maybe the third or fourth time round for me. Still a disappointment and not something that will ever replace Plex for me, unfortunately. Subtitles can't be set to override placement or style. Show/movie pauses when you jump forward and is slow to restart when you manually do so. It's so unpolished after the Plex experience that I almost physically winced. Sigh.
■ Aitana se cuela en la vuelta al mundo de Plex y desvela el verdadero motivo por el que está en Japón ■ Ambos han coincidido por casualidad y han disfrutado de un día de lo más divertido
https://los40.com/2025/03/23/aitana-se-cuela-en-la-vuelta-al-mundo-de-plex-y-desvela-el-verdadero-motivo-por-el-que-esta-en-japon/?int=MASTODON_WORLD
@leafmuncher you are not wrong!
But with this price hike I'm leaving the boat.
I've been using #Plex for a long time and I'm on an Yearly subscription since then, I think Lifetime Subscriptions are bad for services that we love.
For Movies and Shows,I watch on Kodi from Plex server or Jellyfin it's the same for me.
For music, #Plexamp it's the best, beautiful simple design, smart playlists, multi-genre and I love the sonic analysis, something that I can't find elsewhere on #selfhosted software
Wasted my weekend looking for a good #Plex #Plexamp alternative and I still haven't found it 
#selfhosted
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Has anyone experienced that #Plex successfully picks up a properly tagged album (shows up in Home's Recently Added Music section), but it is nowhere to be found at the artist page?
I can see it appearing after a scan in the library for a second or two, but it simply disappears when arranged as Artist-Album; it is there in Album-By Title.
Tips are welcome 
After using Infuse as a #Plex client for a few weeks now (h/t @hagen) on the AppleTV and iPad, I am kind of confused by how much better than the official Plex app it is.
On the AppleTV, I use it exclusively as it never triggers transcoding where the Plex app does (and for codec/containers where it used to not need transcoding for some reason), and on the iPad, the download functionality is actually... not an excrutiatingly slow broken mess? Wow?
Plex tra un po’ ( 29 Aprile 2025 ) cambia alcuni prezzi.
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Quello che interessa a me e’ che fino ad oggi era possibile fare streaming dei propri media, siano essi foto, musica o video, anche fuori dalla rete locale, sulle app o via web senza pagare un abbonamento. Bastava aprire un paio di porte sul proprio router e il cloud di Plex faceva la magia. L’unico costo era per la sola app […]
My DeGoogle Journey is going great so far!
Moving away from Google and big tech has been both fun and surprisingly easy. Here are some of the recent switches I’ve made:
Gmail → Proton Mail
Google Drive → Proton Drive
Chrome → Vivaldi
Google Search → Ecosia
Google Home → Home Assistant
ChatGPT → LeChat (Mistral AI)
For streaming, I’m exploring ArteTV alongside other free Scandinavian services.
I’m also looking into Plex as a long-term alternative. Seems like I’ll need a NAS for that—any recommendations?
Do you use Plex? Please share your tips and experiences.
Troppo seizoen 2 aan het kijken. Bij veel scenes hoor je dier geluiden alleen kan ze niet thuis brengen. Eens zoeken naar diergeluiden in Australie.
I finally got #Jellyfin #HomeMediaServer installed on my #Kubuntu 24.04 desktop... Looking to replace #Plex as our #MediaServer with it. Love the #mobile #apps for jellyfin from #Fdroid do far. The #TV interface isn't as slick as Plex but 
minor detail. But, cool thing with Jellyfin is that you can add your ebooks as a source, I am interested in how that will be. A good way to #AvoidAmerican is #FLOSS.
#OpenSource
To be fair: Plex also has this issue. The #Plex Xbox client doesn't transcode audio of half my library correctly.
This issue rarely appears on Google TV though.
What if #Plex, but you could share TV tuners across friends easily as well as inject your own programming like your livestreams and you/peertube channels?
