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I bought Plex pass years ago for £79. The new price of $749.99 is INSANE.
No wonder all the cool people are using Jellyfin.
I mean, yeah that's crazy, but jellyfin does have a proper audio player yet? Plexamp is just way too good and the main reason I'm not switching..
What do you mean? there are so many audio clients that can can connect to jellyfin. finamp, jellyamp, sonixd, .... What is it you're missing in a jellyfin audioplayer?
Hmm, does finamp or any of those give me recommendations, sonic similarities, adaptive streaming, downloading, mood/genre playlists etc? The not so polished frontend I can neglect.. Unfortunately I got really used to plexamp and am spoiled in some way
The jellyfin audio player is soo bad, I used it less than a week ago and the music was almost unrecognisable from playing it through copyparty
What the heck are you doing, doesn't every single player just... play the music? How could the quality be worse?? I can imagine having gripes about the UI of some players, but the quality??
from what i can tell jellyfin normalises/dampens all the audio it plays through its official frontends, and i will admit normally it isnt as grainy as it was, but idk how it got messed up so badly when going to my client (official android app)
luckily from what i could tell it was only one-off, and i dont believe it would happen with a non-official viewer/listener cause it was most likely something during transcoding the cache
I use Emby. Works great.
Φορ 479 usd you by a coffee machine or something else. I got off plex and went for jellyfin. I only watch from home.
Been on jellyfin since day one. Works fine, UI is great and gets the job done. TV UI maybe not top notch, buy usable. Mobile UI just fine and usable.
Also, exposed on the internet (reverse proxy, OIDC, https the works) for years now with zero issues whatsoever as well .
There are a few users always throwing thrash on jellyfin, maybe pissed off users that paid for Plex, or Plex shills that like to denigrate jellyfin, I don't know.
Just ignore them.
Jellyfin is perfectly usable, yes you need to setup port forward, VPN or whatever, but it's exactly our target audience so move along and stop bitching, Plex shills.
Stay with Plex, use jellyfin, whatever fit your bill.
Anyway plex does not fit my concept of self hosting to be free from cloud lock ins.
I tried Plex once, before I knew about jellyfin. I just wanted an open-source self-hostable media server with my own media.
When I tried it, after installing Plex, I was presented with a login for a Plex hosted account. Iirc that was optional and I skipped it, after that came the nags for Plex pass. Piss off. That's exactly the opposite of what I wanted out of something like jellyfin.
Oh yeah and apparently you can't stream remotely without a subscription either? If it were a feature they had to spend time on I'd still not want to use it, but I'd understand at least.
From the application's point of view, there is no difference between internet and intranet access. I just saw that downloading the media you already own, using your own infrastructure, requires an even more expensive subscription.
How tf did people stick around with this shit for so long.
Was any justification provided for a nearly 10x price increase!?
Glad I started with Jellyfin
It's because lifetime licenses aren't sustainable. I'm surprised they still offer it.
Plex is an actual company that has an office and employees, so they have recurring costs every month. A lot of people already have lifetime licenses that they're not likely to receive any more revenue from. It's likely they're increasing the price to help recoup costs or convince people to subscribe to a monthly subscription rather than get a lifetime license.
Nah, they increased the cost to drive people to the monthly subscription. I'm guessing in a year or two they'll announce the lifetime subs have been revoked and everyone needs a monthly sub.
who is this for?
those unicorn users who make 150k++ a year and pirate all their media and then wanna share it with their friends that they don't have?
I don't think there is an actual target for this price. But I bet my left testicle it's to push for subscription passes instead of a single purchase.
travelling salesmen who pirate all their media??
I do wonder if this is a last ditch effort cash grab before they go under or a "we really thought we'd be acquired by now so now we have to plan ahead" move.
You know that wouldn't be the last time they try to get money out of you, either.
After 16 years of having a lifetime pass (and nearly 20 years of administering multiple Plex servers), I know this to be false. And, unless you have one yourself, you could not possibly know. Especially because, with a lifetime pass, there’s no other way that could possibly ask for money from a user. It’s literally impossible.
But, if I’m wrong, show proof of your lifetime pass, and the solicitous emails you received subsequently. I know you can’t.
If you’re going to speak from such obvious ignorance, it should be easy to admit when you’re wrong
Most Lemmy users, however, never find such a thing so easy…
I think it's more that they're implying the company is likely to get worse in the future and start trying shit, not what they've already experienced. The price now being nearly 10x what it once was is a pretty big red flag, after all.
Lifetime single pay subscriptions don’t make financial sense at all for a company. As much as I hate subscriptions, it’s the only way to get long term support, which software needs.
If Jellyfin can fill most Plex features for most people, maybe it’s not that they need to charge money to survive. Maybe it’s that their product value proposition has eroded.
Certainly, but open source projects rely too heavily on the goodwill of volunteers who still need to feed their families. Hopefully Jellyfin’s incoming users contribute to the project.
jellyfin: hey here i am you can have me for free. i even run on your own server.
Jellyfin is always free, works great, and keeps getting better!
I like jellyfin