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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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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can understand new features being behind a fee, but this is putting old, old capabilities behind a paywall. Hmmm...

This with a recent decision to remove watch together sort of eliminates the whole reason I would have tried Plex so many years ago.

I'm a fan of Plex (it's worked for me) and understand the Jellyfin crowd too. I'm worried about who is calling the shots at the moment. They aren't aligning with their users.

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[–] tane@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (16 children)

All these comments mentioning jellyfish and I haven’t see a single mention of emby. Is it considered bad or something? Because I switched over to it and I am liking it a lot better than plex so far

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[–] RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience

How stupid do they think we are?

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Time to move to Jellyfin for the rest of their users?

[–] LoopingRiver@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

So I have a lifetime Plex pass, but my friend (who is remote) does not. Does this change mean they have the have a Plex pass to connect to my device remotely?

Edit: thanks for the info! After I posted I continued reading and realized that question was already answered! Appreciate the help!

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[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man, my Jellyfin subscription just rose in price too.

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

I feel like it’s just a matter of time, until they pull the rug from under lifetime subs.

But in any case, this is probably it for me. I’m not completely happy with jellyfin performance on my server, but the price hike puts me outside of what i’m willing to spend for this service. I already host it myself, and i can tunnel it myself too, if i ever decide to run it outside of my home network

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Subscriptions are a non-starter for me

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