I hope this doesn’t mean they are on the slippery slope of selling user data, thoughts?
Honestly the writing’s been on the wall for Plex for a while now. I think it was when they introduced podcasts or news or something that it first became clear to me that Plex was trying to grow beyond a software company for self-hosters and prepare themselves for an IPO or something. I still use it simply because their client availability is second-to-none and I’ve got a bunch of people signed up already, but I’ve already made my peace that the “Plex getting shittier” line and the “Jellyfin getting better” line are getting closer and closer to crossing each other.
I’ve been using Jellyfin on my firestick, roku, and android phone for at least a year now.
What’s your hosting solution for external access? I’m asking because right now, Plex has a lot going for it in terms of allowing me to securely host my own server and share it with the people I want who are outside my network without actually having to open up ports or compromise my network security in any way. I couldn’t imagine hosting costs on a cloud VM for a decently sized, fairly actively used media server, assuming you wanted to go that route. I guess you could set up a reverse proxy on a cloud VM and forward traffic into your local network, but then there’s still the added network traffic costs for your VM.
I think they may have dropped the feature but I distinctly remember being disappointed in the feature that it wouldn’t download MP3s to your server so I’m pretty sure it existed at one point.
