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...

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.

  • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    As a Jellyfin-fanboy: you are right. Plex is easier to deal with out of the box.
    Anything else would not make any sense for a paid service.

    I’d say though, if you dedicate the time to set it up correctly, it is an equally good solution and it’s free.
    If time is a factor in your life, then there is no shame in paying for something that just works. It’s why I have a Synology NAS and not a self-built Unraid or OMV server.