Important 2025 Plex Updates
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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.

    • Boomer Humor DoomergodEnglish
      34•2 months ago

      This might be what it takes to at least get me to install it.

      Do they live well together with the same shared media library?

      Also, are there audiobook clients for Jellyfin?

      • myrmidexEnglish
        30•2 months ago

        I found audiobooks to be kind of awkward on jellyfin. I’m now running Audiobookshelf for all my audiobooks, radio shows and podcasts. Together with the Lissen app on Android, it works very nicely!

          • myrmidexEnglish
            2•2 months ago

            For music, I selfhost navidrome. Works nicely with the Tempo app on android, or Feishin on desktop.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•2 months ago

        I’ve heard rumors that they do play well together, but that’s people running it in docker with a “read-only” flag set for the content folder, with metadata saved in the config folder

        I’ve used the Jellyfin app to listen to audio books, but for my purposes, it’s easier to run the separate client/server Audiobookshelf.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•2 months ago

            I’m fully Dockerized (well, uhh… Podmanized) and I’m dual-wielding Plex and Jellyfin. Runs smoothly and both only have read to the content. All management of the media is handled by the *arr stack anyway. I even set up a volume for Plex to throw conversions into that Jellyfin can’t see. I’m currently personally using Jellyfin and I’m waiting for Jellyfin to be good enough (or Plex bad enough…) for the users I share with to switch over.

            I can definitely recommend that setup.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 months ago

          I’ve had Plex and Emby (what Jellyfin was forked from) running alongside one a other for years now on Windows with zero issues. They shouldn’t have any effect on one another.

        • @[email protected]English
          5•2 months ago

          I installed Plex before learning I’d have to pay for any of the functionality I was looking for. Installed Jellyfin and used the Plex folders lol

      • @[email protected]English
        8•2 months ago

        I’ve had Jellyfin and Plex running using the same media directory for a couple years now. I think I had to make a couple small changes for things like seasons of a TV show to show up correctly, but nothing incredibly difficult. Definitely worth setting up and playing with periodically so when you do finally get sick of Plex, you’re ready to just switch.

        Only thing I use Plex for exclusively now is when I’m flying, Plex has the Netflix style download option and Jellyfin just downloads the video file. I like Plex’s way better just from personal preference.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•2 months ago

        I haven’t used Plex myself but Jellyfin doesn’t create any kind of meta files in the library folders. If that is true for Plex as well then I don’t see why it would be a problem to point them at the same shared library.

        • @[email protected]English
          13•2 months ago

          My experience is that both Plex and Jellyfin pointed at the same media files causes no issues.

        • Boomer Humor DoomergodEnglish
          6•2 months ago

          Plex stores its metadata in a special folder, and I’ve got the *arr stack managing the actual media files, so I think I can run them in parallel.

          Looks like I’ve got a project for the weekend! Jebediah’s just gonna have to wait to go to Jool.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        Of you use docker plex and jellyfin arent gonna be messing with your media unless you delete/modify them within the respective clients (but then again thats what *arr is for)

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        I didn’t enjoy using Jellyfin for audiobooks, on my android I use the Jellyfin client to download the book I wanna listen to and then I use AudioAnchor for listening to it.