Couldn’t pay me to use that software lol
Used Kodi and now using Jellyfin.
As always, donate to the FOSS alternatives instead.
In the case of Youtube Premium, donate to Ad Blockers instead.
Wait, ya’ll are paying for Plex??
Paid 70€ maybe a decade ago
Best bang for buck so far
Turns out, lifetime is difficult to budget for
It would be fine if Plex wasn’t hooked on VC capital and needed to make the line go up constantly. Most self-hosters like me have zero interest in what they are funding with subscriptions.
To be clear, you still need your own HW and electricity, right?
And the software doesn’t even work right most of the time anyway. It’s easier to set up a file share and run it in VLC.
I dunno what’s different between us, but I’ve found it to be rock solid for over a decade. I host it on a Mac mini.
sooooo Jellyfin time?
Emby time.
I have not tried emby, is it much/any better than plex or jellyfin?
try it and see.
Jellyfin Lifetime Pass continues to be better value.
I heard their quadrupling their lifetime membership.
Oh bugger, I might actually have to start still paying nothing
I paid… $74.99 for a lifetime plex sub in 2014. Is this the same service?
Yes, if you bought the lifetime pass years ago, you still have it. This price increase only affects people who don’t already have a lifetime pass.
Afaik, if you didnt have the lifetime pass
Original lifetime Plex Pass for $74.99!
That’s what their email said. So my understanding is I must have been grandfathered into the pay one time and have it forever thing.
yup
No it’s worse. Old accounts are grandfathered in to downloads when a library is shared with another user. Otherwise the library recipient needs a plex pass too.
Welp, looks like I’m never buying, and therefore using plex
One question, lets say that I bought this subscription. What kind of advantages has it, does it cache your media? Or if you have multiple users, you still need to be able to upload media to miltiple users?
It’s the same as the regular subscription benefits, just permanent.
Permanent as in as long as its lucrative. Then some investor buys Plex, stoops honoring Lifetine Subscription (aka transforms them) and you are left with nothing.
based on the history of other companies, permanent until they sell the company and buy some island, at which point they’ll freeze all updates (feature and security) to Plex and release PlexGO for a fixed monthly fee.
But how about those benefits. Is there caching or no?
No, there isn’t.
There are a lot of gated features, the most useful of which is a low quality proxy that transcends CGNAT and Firewalls when you really need to share a video but don’t have a real ip.
Gating hardware encoding is a pretty dick maneuver IMO.
It’s not permanent, but lifetime. When they go bankrupt, they’ll just eliminate those subscribers.
It must be so easy to be a CEO these days. Whether you do a good or bad job, whether the company is thriving or not, the next step is enshittification. And the playbook is always the same: raise prices, layoff workers, make the product or service worse, fuck over your customers. Rinse and repeat…
As if there weren’t enough reasons to use jellyfin already.
Someone is getting greedy.
