Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data

• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, the sad reality is that Plex’s setup experience is much smoother. And when you’re trying to convert people, the single largest obstacle is often social inertia. So lowering the barriers to entry is extremely important. My mother-in-law would need to sideload the Jellyfin app onto her TV, but Plex is available right on its app store.

  Luckily, you can run both side by side. Jellyfin for me and my more tech-literate friends, Plex for those who don’t know/don’t care to learn.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have read many people say this, but I don’t understand what they mean by it. When I set up Jellyfin, it was a very simple process.

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    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Simplicity is relative to each person’s abilities and the tool in question.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Apparently all your friends and family are comfortable with hostnames ip addresses. Not everyone’s are. Also, not everyone wants to buy a static ip or setup a dynamic dns service or similar. Plex is definitely simpler. I have used both.

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      • pipes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I understand this but we have to realize that what makes Plex simpler is the fact that they are a network intermediary that does what it wants with your home networks; it’s like insisting that NordVPN is better than Mullvad

        IMHO the only solution will be improving wireguard guis and stuff, Jellyfin is not lacking.

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Apparently all your friends and family are comfortable with hostnames and ip addresses.

        I mean pretty much everyone I know uses web browsers and sometimes type in web addresses lol

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Excuse me, I thought the comment I replied to was talking about the setup process of the jellyfin server itself.

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    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Setting up a server? Pretty darn easy.

      Teaching all your friends and relatives to figure out what app to use and login with your dyndns random entry or IP address. Or even more difficult, using VPN.

      It’s not the hosting that’s hard. It’s the watching for non-tech people.

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Maybe I’m just callous but I just don’t see that as a problem myself. If I’m offering my own self hosted services for friends or family, the least they can do is put in some effort to learn how to use it. If they couldn’t bother, that is their loss.

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      • Bongles@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Grab an app called jellyfin, type in this number, pick the profile with your name, password is X”

        It’s not that different than “Grab an app called plex, here’s the username and password, pick the profile with your name” (or sign up yourself and I’ll share it with you)

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For me it’s a trade-off: yes Plex is less good than Jellyfin from a data/cost perspective. But so far the UI of Plex (which is not perfect mind you), availability of Plexamp (which honestly is very very good), and the fact that I don’t have to pay for it anymore after buying lifetime swings the scale towards Plex for me.

    If Plex somehow canceled my lifetime or forced ads on my shows or something, that would be a line — but making me opt out of selling my data is not that line for me.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Different taste on the UI front I guess. I thought the default Plex was awful, couldn’t stand it. Jellyfin can be a bit messy though

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• 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plexamp is pretty great. It’s my streaming music player of choice.

  After gpm shit the bed… I vowed to never have another streaming music service.

  Plexamp it is.

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As I said, I’ve yet to find a selfhosting solution half as good as PlexAmp. It’s very, very good and arguably a better service than normal Plex

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thirds on both your points.

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    • clubizarre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The closest thing I’ve found to Plexamp (on Android) is Symphonium. I only pointed it to my Plex server, but it offers support to so many other services. It also works perfect in Android Audio. It does cost $4, but it’s honestly worth that and then some.

      But I totally get how great Plexamp is. I use it every day.

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• Getting6409@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe you’ve tried it already, but navidrome is a great purpose built music streamer. I was using subsonic back in the day, then airsonic, then airsonic advanced. When I first got on navidrome it was a tough pill to swallow since I never maintained my tags, but I gave a little time here and there to comb through it and in the end it feels like a worthwhile investment. It paid off a little bit more when I adopted lyrion music server and squeeze players for local playback around the home since this organizes by the same tags (mostly), so the whole library is kind of plug and play with things that honor the same tags.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who downvoted you?

    Anyway, if you have directory-based music organization, Navidrome won’t take that sadly. However, it will take m3u playlists.

    So I can just ls playlistdir/* > Playlist.m3u and get that directory as a playlist. Simple, lazy solution.
    Oh, you can also add internet radios to Navidrome.

    And one cool trick, which is also pretty good to test out Navidrome without effort, in Termux it is already in the repos, so you can just effort-free apt install navidrome, run it and play around.

    Privacy

    Notable config: EnableInsightCollector = ‘false’
    www.navidrome.org/docs/getting-started/insights/

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    • Getting6409@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah that was the tough pill to swallow, moving away from folder based (the old *sonic gang) to tag based navidrome. Not for everyone, but getting your tags in order opens up some nice doors.

      They publish a container image as part of their releases, and you can manage everything with environment variables. If you’re used to running containers I’d say this is even easier for testing and playing around.

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• Fergie434@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For me it’s chromecast support. Maybe Jellyfin has that now but it didn’t last time I checked.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When did you check? I’ve been using it that way for over a year.

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• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I just use Jellyfin for this too, not sure I follow the issue but I haven’t used Plex since migrating

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