Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have been using Jellyfin for over a year, brilliant thing. Makes it very easy to stream my media; I have one client catered to music, and the main one for movies/TV shows.

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• s38b35M5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Plex stopped being useful to me in 2019. At the time I had only about 300 movies and the same number of TV episodes. The database kept getting corrupt, causing long load times of video info pages, or perpetual spinning progress indicator. After fixing the database (and losing all watch metadata each time) three times in one year, I moved to a plain file share served from the NAS with Kodi running on my Nvidia Shield.

  In seven years, Kodi’s local DB has never corrupted. I now have 900+ movies and 2500 TV episodes. I can handle any file type, any video CODEC, can play thousands of games from the internet game library. The DB can be easily backed up and imported into a new install if needed.

  And the best part? I didn’t pay anyone to access any of the media I own, and no corpo gets access to my library or watch history.

  Forget Plex.

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• maxprime@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

  I’ll be sticking to Plex until it is reasonably safe to expose JF.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If only my TV had a Jellyfin app, I could switch, but alas it doesn’t. Got to use Plex if I want to watch stuff from any home streaming thingy. That said, it’s free to do that, at least.

  I just don’t have the money or time to buy an external box and fiddle with it to get it running these days either, otherwise I’d build a modern version of the XBMC server I used to have in days gone by :-(

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• Mika@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t use either, what’s the usecase of these apps?

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• KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My opinion: Plex has made it clear that they want your money. They don’t want you to host your own media and be happy with that. They want you to pay a subscription.

  The whole Plex Pass Lifetime subscription is kind of a trap. You might be getting away with paying once currently, but let’s be honest: That means that they have taken your money once. And a some time in the future, a MBA dude will notice that they have a lot of non-paying heavy users (meaning: users who have paid several years ago, which is not relevant for the revenue goals of the current quarter) - and they will try to get you to pay again and again. You might be okay with that, but if you don’t want to get hassled, you need to switch to something else.

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• Retail4068@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh god,I have to pay $3 to use someone else’s code to stream my stolen media 🤣

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I saw the writing on the wall when they kept pushing me for needing an account on their servers. Glad i left.

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• aberama44@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One thing is the price, a whole another thing is the cluttered UI with too many features. I just want play a movie/tv series. Switched to Jellyfin and not looking back.

  Just hope Jelly doesnt suffer the same fate. 🙂

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• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Plex prices are expensive just to access your own media.

  I’m as guilty as the next guy, but it’s nearly never our “own” media.

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• androidul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I started selfhosting just because throwing cash on subscriptions at big corpos is not feasible since subs are increasing on a year-on-year basis. To my mind, if I’m going to self-host to yet again pay sub prices defeats the sole purpose of selfhosting.

  That money you can pocket and invest in your own hardware for spare parts, upgrades & the like

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Seems 80% of readers don’t care …

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• irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Plex prices are expensive just to access your own media. Tailscale can do it for free.

  Tailscale isn’t exactly free. It requires a lot more knowledge, configuration, maintenance, etc, than Plex alone.

  Sure, many self-hosters have the ability to figure it out and the proper networking and/or server hardware to implement it. But many Plex users aren’t really self-hosters in that sense. Hosting a local media server that deals with all of the networking stuff for you is much easier than maintaining a tailscale or similar setup on top of the media server stuff. I mean for me, if I hadn’t gotten a lifetime Plex Pass early on for cheap, I probably would have put more effort into my Jellyfin setup. But Plex mostly just works and I have other bigger priorities. I hate the functionality they’ve removed that makes things more difficult than it should be, or I wouldn’t be switching, but it’s not all that bad. So if I didn’t have the expertise and hardware already, I could see it being worth the money to stick with it.

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• TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s not really about cost for me. Accounts in control of someone else and increased fees to use my own hardware can take a long walk off a short pier.

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• MolochHorridus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Last time I compared the Plex handled finding and using subtitles so much more user friendly than Jellyfin.

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• bonenode@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ragebait headline.

  And I am a Jellyfin user, who never used Plex so I don’t care about the comparison much.

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