You guys are still using plex? My media is all pirated anyway, I just make it publicly available on a webserver. Access control? Why would I care, I stole it.
4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced
Submitted 3 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidauthority.com/plex-restrictions-reasons-to-switch-3622348/
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Idk. Maybe you don’t want to spend the bandwidth and power on streaming it to a butch of randoms.
entwine@programming.dev 3 months ago
Wireguard, or even just jellyfin with a password
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Bandwidth is free, as long as it doesn’t get to the point its tanking my performance I don’t care. If people do start to abuse it I will bother to change it but until then no reason to bother. Obviously not giving the URL out here because then immediately it is going to get hammered.
Security through obscurity is fine when the only thing you are securing against is a bit of an inconvenience and the benefit is its easy to give friends a URL to go to. But sure, if it became a problem I would probably look into something else.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Like sftp?? Hope you configured it right
Briguy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Serious question. I have been using the free version of plex for years and been happy with it. I have no desire for remote access and I never consume media on my phone. I just use it to watch TV shows and movies in my living room. I don’t want anything more from it so I’m fine with the free version. Is there anything else I’m missing out on my not using jellyfin? I’ve considered it but to me it doesn’t seem to be worth the effort to switch if I’m happy with the free Plex. But I’m willing to have my mind changed
Lunchtime7778@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It may have very well changed recently or I could be misremembering, but the reason I switched over was being unable to play certain codecs/media types (types of hdr?) over stream while converting on host… unless I had a subscription.
Utter lunacy to want me to pay to convert on my own machine. I’ve since swapped to jellyfin, donated, and am happier for it (and the open source part is such an added plus).
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For your use case its pretty much identical.
I prefer the plex interface slightly. But id rather use open source
sirico@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I would say get to know how to use it at least so you can hit the ground running if they ruin Plex for you.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I never had issues with it. But when my old pc died I opted to buy the 4k ONN device and store the files on USB.
Cort@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oof I had one of those at work and they were really particular about the file formats they played. This was like 5-6 years ago tho, have they gotten better?
rubdos@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I said it when Netflix launched, and I said it when Plex became popular.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
Clients suck on non plex
obinice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The thing it replaced… XBMC? O_o
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Xbmc was renamed Kodi and it’s still revenant. It has a totally different use case than Plex or jellyfin and there’s plugins for both.
jaek@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did you mean to type ‘relevant’ or are you suggesting it’s a zombie project?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s sad but at least it’s still competition where desperately needed.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Business. It’s business. Business has inescapable behaviors that manifest anytime it touches anything. It trades user experience for profit seeking. It’s not even complex. Profit always comes at the cost of product value and the purpose of business if profit. It always is, it always will be.
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Stremio + Torrentio FTW
x00z@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nobody talking about Emby?
Why not?
Gemini24601@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Emby is closed source and costs money to have access to all features. I’d recommend Jellyfin because it’s a free and open source fork of Emby with almost the exact same functionality.
x00z@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Interesting, thanks.
What about Emby Theater?
EonNShadow@pawb.social 3 months ago
I use Plex for audiobooks and TV shows primarily.
The fact that you can’t (or at least can’t easily) scan library files from Plexamp is utterly insane to me. Especially after they made audio libraries completely unavailable on the regular Plex app.
I’ll probably switch to Audiobookshelf or something else down the line.
remon@ani.social 3 months ago
You can scan from plexdash.
Thoven@lemdro.id 3 months ago
+1 for audiobookshelf, after using tools like Plex for a long time I was honestly shocked by how much more user friendly it felt. And it’s a one man team! The only significant demerit is that the IOS app is stuck in test flight limbo, so you have to find another player. Though most do that already I think.