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Plex users, why? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Ejz9@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hello! I’m just a guy who saw plex is on sale.

My current setup uses jellyfin, I use FLAC music and 4k films. I use Finamp on my iPhone and the jellyfin desktop client.

Now my question is, why?

Both platforms are great but I’m a guy who likes all free. No farm, no foul to the lifetime pass users of plex though. But I’ll scroll and I’ll see: “100% worth it!” ; “I could never go back”. Now this doesn’t capture everyone’s opinions, but out of the features they display that make lifetime unique is Transcoding (something I think you should have a right to after owning the processor) and plexamp which, I cannot rate its experience, but from what I hear it’s solid. But I’ve also heard it’s got its bugs and downloads can be finicky.

So, as a jellyfin user, why might I care or want to switch to plex?

(I’m not ignoring the issues jellyfin has, I don’t really experience any though and bugs are minimal for my case)

(I’ve posted in this sub instead of plex because I want mixed, not skewed results and yes I’ve searched the history, but I don’t think any question truly validates why transcoding or similar should be a $100+ “feature”. That’s snake oil marketing.

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[–] ArtificeAdam@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'm a quasi-techy with a userbase of one. I haven't tried Jellyfin or any of the alternatives, and I'm not a power-user with all the bells and whistles for things like PMM, Tautalli, Sonarr/Radarr etc so take what I say with a pinch of salt.

"It's really nice."

I wanted my own Netflix. It's super easy to add things, to edit the metadata, customise my libraries and display art. I tried it before anything else and because I literally just want something that manages my films and TV stuff, it does everything I need it to.

If you ever had the satisfaction of going through an itunes library and tidying all the metdata from MP3s you pulled from Kazaa, Limewire, Soulseek etc, it's a bit like that for me. Dopamine-triggering organisation wrapped up in a pretty package that I can add prerolls to when I want that 'cinema' vibe.

Is it the best? Yes? No? Maybe? Am I happy I got the plex pass? Absolutely.

"There are many installations like it, but this one is mine."