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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    11 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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      11 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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        11 days ago

        Have you checked out the Finamp app? It’s to Jellyfin what Plexamp is to Plex. It’s much better for music that Jellyfin proper.

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      11 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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        11 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.

          • dustyData@lemmy.world
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            11 days ago

            A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.

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            11 days ago

            Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.

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                10 days ago

                I’m only bent on people running software on shit hardware. Roku is bottom barrel crap along with cheap TV sticks.

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            11 days ago

            forgot most of you here are americans, roku isn’t a thing in my country. everyone who i share to uses a pc, htpc, phone or tablet for that

            • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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              11 days ago

              Roku is also a thing in Europe.

              Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).