Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

Ahoy mateys, it’s time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

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.

  • sanzky@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    14 hours ago

    since the last time I checked (could be they’ve made progress since then):

    • subtitle auto sync
    • smart collections
    • way better support for downloads, particularly transcoded ones
    • skip intro and credits
    • better UI (this one is subjective but I did find annoying little bugs often)
    • I’ve found that it takes way longer to update & scan larger libraries
    • overall disparity between clients on different platforms (in my case, webos, firetv and iOS).

    in short it’s a lot of tiny little things that make my overall experience just annoying.