We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plex has been on a downward spiral for awhile now. This will really kill the service for a lot of people, wonder if Plex sharing will be a thing of the past and people switch to jellyfin sharing

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That is so sad. I was just reconfigured my hone server with plex last weekend. Seems like it's time to switch to jellyfin now. Luckily didn't finish the configuration.

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[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The “Remote playback with a Remote Watch Pass subscription” just sounds like IPTV with extra steps. I’m kind of ok with them requiring Plex Pass for remote streaming for the server owner, but then I have lifetime so it doesn’t affect me. Might feel differently I was having to pay.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

does this mean the server will need Plex pass or each user individually?

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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR CURRENT PLEX PASS HOLDERS: For users who have an active Plex Pass subscription, remote playback will continue to be available to you without interruption from any Plex Media Server, after these changes go into effect. When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee. More on that later in this update.

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[–] blink@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was planning to switch to Jellyfin but having to sideload the app in my Samsung TV is a headache for me. But guess I will be doing exactly that now.

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[–] Yeldarb12@toast.ooo 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what the site says it's just putting more stuff behind a paywall due to rising costs. That paywall is a subscription or the lifetime pass from what I can tell.

Since I got the lifetime pass a while back and host my own server, my brother should still be able to watch stuff in my library from his house. I also travel a lot so I'm going to be pissed if that's not the case.

When I chose to use Plex initially it just fit better with what I needed. I can change to something else if I need to but it sounds like my lifetime pass means not much is going to change for me.

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

If you have Plex pass, this does not effect anyone using your server.

It's still a shit asshole move by them, but at least it isn't catastrophic. Hopefully by the time Plex starts to suck jellyfin will not blow chunks.

[–] Zebra@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So I've currently got a yearly Plex Pass, because I didn't want to get locked into Plex or feel any pressure to stay if they went down the dunny, but have been putting off migrating to JellyFin. For anybody who has, how did you find the process?

My media isn't named the most sensibly. I just keep whatever name it came with for the most part. I also liked how Plex just handled the authentication and remote streaming for me - at no stage did I have to open up a port on my router, setup a reverse proxy, etc. Can I migrate my watch history?

I'm fairly new to this. Any migration advice or thoughts would be appreciated!

E: only me, though I stream things externally while out of the house fairly regularly. I'm tech literate enough to follow a readme and read docs, but that's about it. I don't need to worry about other, less tech savvy, users streaming my library

[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I switched to jellyfish last year. Though I didn't try to get watch history over. Jellyfin should handle your file structure very similarly to Plex, so if what you have now works, it should work on jellyfin.

If it's only you and you're only using phones and laptops outside, then you can just skip reverse proxy and all that and just VPN into your system. Wireguard, tailscale, or zerotier are good options with simple easy setups.

I think you should just give jellyfin a try. You can run it at the same time as Plex, so you can just play around with it and see how you like it.

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[–] jlow@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And so it begins ...

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

For me it began since they announced they are killing the watch together feature... For other people it started a long time ago.

[–] Mr_fuzzy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

This is why we stremio

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