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I only recently started using Plex because they added the Drew Carey Show. I didn’t know they were anything other than a streaming service.

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Their main product is a server that you run on a computer and lets you stream your own content.

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Their main product is telemetry and selling your watch history to advertisers.

That’s why Plex doesn’t work without an active internet connection.

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I don’t care about the photos. But glad to hear they are taking photos and music out of the main app and making it less bloated.

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I wish they’d allow syncing of my full music library to my mobile app so I can finally get off Apple Music.

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Musicbee can pull your songs and playlists from itunes and allow syncing of them to your phone. It doesn’t do streaming though.

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To what app in the phone? Does it keep playlists?

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Put all songs in a playlist and then download that playlist?

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But I need all my playlists, not just all my songs in one big useless playlist. I have around 50 of them.

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K. You lost me years ago when your photos and camera upload function were total shit forever. I since moved all my crap to nextcloud camera upload and photoprism. Not gonna change any time soon

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Plex never fixes stuff and it’s really bad. They don’t even have a feedback system.

The login process for Plex photos (Android) was near im impossible, because it used the browser which closed/if I went away from the app such as if I wanted to copy my passqord from my password manager. I wouldn’t be at all suprised if that wouldn’t change until way after stable release.

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You can log into the browser beforehand if that helps

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I use Firefox Focus because operating a phone is hard. I guess I can switch it temporarily but that’s once again iffy.

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I genuinely love PlexAmp. I’m curious about the photos thing and might give it a try.

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I just wish it had local sync for my whole music library, not just some small slice of it.

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At this point the only thing holding me back from switching to Jellyfin is Plex’s transcoded download function.

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I’ve found emby to be a good compromise.

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Yeah that’s a good point. I think the appeal of Jellyfin is it being an open source project.

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