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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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/

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[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I ultimately want to ditch Plex, but as an existing lifetime member, it currently handles everything so smoothly for my users that I don't see enough benefits in switching. Particularly on the music streaming side (PlexAmp), I think the experience is the most polished one I've seen.

My hope is that by the time the lifetime Plex Pass experience has become enshittified, Jellyfin will be more ready than it is today, and I'll make a switch then.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I ran Jellyfin and plex for a while, using Jellyfin instead of plex at every oppurtunity. Then Jellyfin broke, I couldn't figure out how to fix it in an evening, and I just went back to using Plex, which had continued working. It isn't great, sure, but it's fine. I think Jellyfin would need to be Immich levels of cool, or plex would actually need to be unusable for me to switch.

[–] tobz619@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'm in the same boat, I have a Plex pass, I have my reverse proxy setup, Plex just works (TM) and when it stops, Jellyfin is already installed and ready to go.