Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

  • littleomid@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    Am I the only one who thinks jellyfin is not only superior to pure, but also way more intuitive to setup? I still don’t understand how plexs routing works, and why I need a central account in order to connect to my own server.

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      17 days ago

      Is it more intuitive to set up for remote streaming to friends…? That’s the use case here and as far as I know the answer is a big “no”.

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        17 days ago

        I got Jellyfin set up and available for streaming in less than two hours. Plex kept demanding that my friend buy a pass to download something, so I was like, nah. Jellyfin works flawlessly and is (in my opinion) a far superior option. I constantly had issues with Plex.

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        17 days ago

        If you have a static IP it’s super easy. If you don’t, it’s less easy, but you should configure Plex the same way if you don’t want to use their proxy, which lowers the speed anyway.

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          17 days ago

          Lol

          Edit: honestly, I could start itemizing why this person’s response is terrible, but all it feels like it deserves is “lol”.

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          17 days ago

          Vs “just install Plex on any NAS from its built in appstore” that’s like 42 steps too many for the regular user.

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      17 days ago

      Probably not the only one, but configuring your server for outside access is way easier with Plex.

      Since I mainly use these services for streaming my music collection (long time cd collector), I declare that Plexamp is simply superior to jellyfin. It is really awesome and feature-rich and jellyfin does not even come close to Plexamp regarding music in my opinion.

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      17 days ago

      Love jellyfin, super easy to install on my proxmox server. Its been running for nearly a year now, no problems. ❤️

    • tym@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      took all of 5 minutes to convert plex-on-pi to jellyfin-on-pi. Probably harder to rename the host than install… fstab’s already set up and errything