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Worst day for the stock market since April '25 “Liberation Day” BTW. That should be the bigger headline

I guess now that I have a Shield versus a PS5 in my living room, I should give it another try, but I really have never cared much about all the features I don’t use as long as the ones I do are still there, and they are.

I pay for the monthly subscription and still feel like it’s a good value. I cringe at the people who say stuff like “I bought a lifetime pass in 2014 for $60 but don’t like all the new features!” like that kind of unsustainable consumption isn’t exactly what pushes them towards more monetization and Plex is still the only company I can think of to have ever actually honored that purchase. No shame though, it was a great deal for early adopters.

And PlexAmp alone justifies putting up with some of the BS, at least for now.

Just my thoughts

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

For me it’s PlexAmp and the few tech-illiterate friends I have who use my server for video streaming. 99% of the time, I just watch movies on my desktop with VLC player but I’ve yet to find a self-hosting music player half as good as PlexAmp

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All fair points, just depends on where your motivation to self host comes from. $7 for a monthly sub to Plex is frankly nothing to me, I don’t even have the charge linked to my budget spreadsheet. Between Plex, VPN, my usenet provider, private tracker memberships, electricity, etc., I’m not even sure I’m saving much money versus having one or two streaming subscriptions. In other words, I don’t do it to save money.

PlexAmp alone justifies the cost even before some features got put behind a paywall but the fact that all my tech-illiterate friends can just download an app on their phones/consoles and watch whatever they want in a high bitrate off my computer makes it worth it for me. 9/10, I just watch films off VLC player anyway.

That isn’t true. A Plex pass from the server owner will cover access for all users

Indeed. The entitlement that some folks online have towards Plex is embarrassing sometimes.

You can selfhost for free however you want but software developers have the right to ask for money to use their software. I selfhost about 60tb of media and have paid for Plex monthly for about 10 years now. They are still so far above the competition for ease-of-use that I wouldn’t even consider switching at this point, even to save $7/month.

This was announced several months ago