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Real plex moment.
My first thought was “this is why you use Jellyfin”.
If Jellyfin would play nice with my APU, not clog the system every time it does a metadata update and the plugin for intro outro detection worked half as good as Plex does, I'd contemplate switching.
If I could say goodbye to Plexamp and it's awesome Sonic Analysis stuff that is.
You could try Emby. It's freemium, but the free part doesn't (or didn't, last time I used it) require an online account.
IIRC Emby was forked to Jellyfin
I tried Plex and as someone new to it it seems like such garbage. Jellyfin has been utterly flawless for me.
the centralized login method is easier for people outside of your network to use your content. thats kinda the main draw if you are willing to sacrifice that level of privacy
I'd just create a VPN on my local server and login that way.
That's a big reason I went to Emby instead. Liked it so much I paid for it and gained access to LDAP support for logins so everyone can login to the same account they use for other things I host.
Plex was amazing a few years ago. It continued to get shittier and shittier. But it did create the groundwork of what's possible.
I‘ve had a plex moment today… with plex.
My wife bought the app so we can listen to our music via mobile app.
I knew i was gonna visit an area with infamously bad cell reception so I wanted to download my music to my bought mobile app on my mobile device and it said „you need plex pass for this“.
I‘ll have to get rid of plex now because this kind of BS is not for me. I completely get the problem with devs being forced to do this unpaid but its no fun. I invest heavily in open source, both money and time. Having this kind of paywall really sucks.
Try jellyfin, it's awesome
Can you explain? I don't see Plex. Does it require you to create an account outside of your self-hosted service? Does your instance delegate its login to some third party then?
This is true. You create a plex account, which allows you to log in from anywhere and will give you access to your media. The real problem is that if your outside internet goes down, you can't log into your own server.
But you can. The Admin Account is available locally.
You don't (hopefully) run admin account on your and family's phones or TV
let's be honest: Even if this account was logged into some device that gets lost or something... what could happen? None of the apps can actually do any admin stuff. Even if it could: What harm could anyone do really from within the Plex container?
It implies bad hygiene in general
But you can, if your net goes down