my lifetime pass for jellyfin cost me $0, pretty good value
I didn’t get into self-hosting until recently, and people recommended Jellyfin, so I don’t even know what I’m missing with Plex, if anything. It feels like Jellyfin does everything I need.
You’re missing getting to pay for it. Imagine how good it would feel to see $750 less in your bank account.
I mean Plex definitely has a value add. Around here people will scoff but Plex is far easier to work with for non technical users.
If you shared your library externally Plex was definitely easier it’s just that they have started to extract value from that which does suck.
You got the arr stack up too? Feels like magic when it’s all setup
No, not yet. I took forever to manually rip what I have, which was a lot, and I’m still working my way through boxes of music (which I’m also hosting on Jellyfin). I’ll figure out that step next.
Ah fair, just take your time and feel free to ask
I felt the same way with my Kodi installs, I had a pi in every room that used a shared library db so I could pause in one room and resume somewhere else, nfs shares for media, a config file and done.
I bought a lifetime Plex pass a decade or so ago and shifted everything except my music to Jellyfin about a year ago. Now I’m looking into dispatcharr to round everything out.
Apparently they are going to DOUBLE that amount every year! Outrageous!
Ha, I came here to make this joke.
Ok, you got dibs on this joke next time plex raises prices
Couldn’t pay me to use that software lol
Used Kodi and now using Jellyfin.
I thought the last couple moves were the nail in the coffin, but this might be it 🤣
I think it is. A price hike this massive can only mean they‘re banking on panic buyers who think they can save hundreds of bucks if they buy it now. Meaning Plex probably knows it‘s over and they just want to make as much money as possible before filing bankruptcy or something. At least that‘s what it looks like to me.
It’s still hilarious to me that Plex, a project forked from the XBMC (now Kodi) free open-source app for organizing and playing one’s own entirely legally obtained video files, is a big streaming business thing that charges people money.
It’s like finding a tree in the forest that gives out infinite free apples, and then setting up an apple-selling table right next to it stocked with apples you obviously got from that tree.
This is almost certainly a ploy to get an influx of buyers before the cutoff of July.
They want to round up all the people that they think were considering a lifetime pass, but were holding out.
I guarantee you when July comes they’re going to reduce the cost to somewhere less than $750 and much closer to the current price due to “we listen to our customers” when really it was the plan all along.
They’re using the Decoy Effect and FOMO.
As if there weren’t enough reasons to use jellyfin already.
Jellyfin: free Cloudflared: free
I really need to take a weekend to learn Jellyfin and set it up in my environment.
Duckdns is free too
I paid… $74.99 for a lifetime plex sub in 2014. Is this the same service?
As always, donate to the FOSS alternatives instead.
In the case of Youtube Premium, donate to Ad Blockers instead.
Time to set up Jellyfin instead!
https://gardinerbryant.com/plexs-lifetime-pass-is-basically-dead-heres-how-to-switch-to-jellyfin/
To be clear, you still need your own HW and electricity, right?
Just checked: I’ve paid 10% of that 12 years ago. Inflation is really bad ;)
I think I got it on sale for 5% of that.
I use jellyfin now. Plex was too bloaty and restrictive.
Good for you! I’m still finding it useful and doing exactly what I’ve paid for.
Hmm, perhaps I should sell my lifetime pass. I won’t, but I should. (Switched to Jellyfin long ago)
What are you hosting jellyfin on? I find it crashes when scanning on my Synology
I hosted my jellyfin in Synology DS224+, but I need to upgrade the RAM first, 2GB is not enough for jellyfin, I added 16GB so it has 18GB total now
I guess it depends on which synology/ size of media collection. I also host jellyfin on a synology (DS923+), in a moderate-sized media collection (~ 9TB) and it never crashed
I’m currently using a mini PC in my 10" rack, but also ran it on an old server that used to be my desktop.
Sure, can I bundle it winRAR subscription?
Wait, ya’ll are paying for Plex??
Paid 70€ maybe a decade ago
Best bang for buck so far
