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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 1 year ago by Sl00k@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] jayb151@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same. My wife also just asked me to get a bunch of audio books too...so looks like I have to set up that now

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The default Jellyfin client isn't great for audiobooks.
For Apple iOS you might wanna look at https://github.com/LeoKlaus/plappa
For Android I would look at https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
Personally I just download the audiobooks from Jellyfin and play it in https://f-droid.org/packages/com.prangesoftwaresolutions.audioanchor/

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I run audiobookshelf and it's amazing!

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/

Check out this arstechnica article on AudioBookshelf. Should cover most of what you need to get started.

[–] RicoBerto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would recommend audiobookshelf for the audiobooks, especially if you have your stuff running in docker. It seemed to me like the solutions to force Plex or jellyfin to do books were a bit more hacky than I wanted.

[–] jayb151@piefed.social 1 points 1 year ago

Dude, I'm blown away by how easy AudioBookShelf was to set up. I was going to go with Jellyfin for audiobooks too since I already had my libraries set up, but I wanted to try an alternative just to see. So easy, I was up and running in under 10 minutes! Thanks for the recommendation!