Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The eternal problem of open source: people will happily pay for proprietary software and services, complain that open source isn’t ready. Then when it is, they will not donate a single cent to continue development but instead create passive aggressive posts and issues demanding features or shitting on the project.

  Anti Commercial-AI license

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• Jeef@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve been in a multi year process to move my users off plex onto jellyfin. They just keep doing things I’m not a fan of

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  • Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jellyfin is absolute dogshit though.

    Sauce: I just installed it on my media server that concurrently runs plex. I run the app on a fire tv cube to use it… and it crushes constantly.

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    • fikniefnadjofullinn@feddit.is ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Works great here, and my users are very happy with it. Not disputing your experience, just saying it’s not universal.

      Could be a compatibility issue with amazon’s android fork? I have only used the android client on google pixel, samsung phones and AOSP builds.

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    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I had a few metadata issues with Jellyfin until I changed the primary metadata source to be the same as what Radarr/Sonarr use so they all the file names match up and I’ve had no issues since.

      I also don’t have a notable issues with subtitles in Jellyfin, but maybe your requirements have more friction. Have you tried the (iirc included by default) Jellyfin plugin to automatically download subtitles for your stuff? Or the *arr program that handles subtitles (I forget its name)?

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lack of feature parity is the number one thing holding so many people back from switching to Jellyfin. Of Plex is going to start deleting beloved features, a lot of minds will be made up very quick.

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• neatobuilds@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dang that’s sucks, I never used it but it’s neat in concept

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good thing I chose jellyfin over plex. This is the main reason I got jellyfin.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lame. I’ve used this feature a lot. It feels like such a basic thing to include.

  SharePlay is a standard feature in Apple devices, and it handles it. But only in supported apps.

  The pandemic showed how nice such a feature can be for a lot of people.

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• batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For anyone in that spot of being savvy-ish but having fellow users that finally got used to plex:

  A work around is Xteve and owncast. I was successfully able to make an owncast broadcast into a “DVR channel”.

  Its cluegy but it does work. My tech level in this stuff is spotty. I’m used to stacks of tech but more for physical control systems (NOT consumer facing). But I was able to get that to work.

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• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I never used that feature. Sometimes less is more. Anyone actively using it in plex or Jelly?

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  • Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I never used it, but it was a popular third party add-on before the feature was integrated.

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    • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t even used the SharePlay on Apple. Question for people using it: How do you start that? First do you start over phone/whatsapp/messengers? Or do you see people online in plex and propose to watch? For me either people are in different timezone so not practical or will be home and we watch it irl sync on the same tv.

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