Thank goodness I got a lifetime Jellyfin license years ago!
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it's a gimmick guys, this is done so the memorial day 75% discount sale sound like a good deal, don't be sheeple
something is wrong with my instance, I'm not getting any ads here
Perhaps you paid x10 extra to get it without ads?
To get ads on jellyfin you have to manually download and play them. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank goodness your subscription fees fund a quick and helpful support department! Open a ticket and they should help restore your ads!
This is how you capitalize on someone else's mistake. Made me actually laugh.
It reminds me of Apple's response to Vista's pricing tiers in 2007.
During the Apple keynote that year they said there was going to be an OS X Basic for $129, an OS X Premium for $129, an OS X Business for $129, and an OS X Ultimate for $129.
Vista pricing tiers were absurd. It still is, but vista was extra.
Few people even wanted vista for free
I decided to bite the bullet and just pay the price increase. I will be looking for other services to use before I am charged again. Does Windows Media Player work well for you guys?
I was using VLC, but after they converted their cost into a subscription platform of $0 a month I had to move. Was going to use Jellyfin, but now this... Guess I'm gonna have to start putting all my media on film
If you go the film route, consider using 8mm. Even though some people thinks it's still too experimental i find the file compression to be far superior (one third file size after transcoding my library from VHS -> 8mm film) and they barely burst into flames.
Besides who has movie nights without drinks nearby you can put on the fire?
Make sure you use mixed drinks and not hard liquor as that will not put out fire and make your insurance company really annoying.
I heard on AIM that Winamp is good.
It really kicks whips the llama's ass!
This is outrageous! Im four times madder about this than I was before!
I'd rather donate $750 to Jellyfin than pay $750 to Plex for Lifetime.
No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now.
We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthly expenses of only ~$600, that's over 40 months (3.3 years) of runway! So, we have plenty of money for the near future.
Thus, at this time, we want you to seriously consider donating to the authors of Clients you use, instead of (or in addition to) the main project. Client support is the hardest part of the Jellyfin ecosystem to keep going, and most of them are maintained by only a single person or very small team.
- Joshua Boniface, project admin
So give that applause-cash to a jellyfin client dev!
that's the neat part, you can't. He does not accept donations. I tried
Unbelievable! I just recently switched to and started paying for Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads) to see if I wanted to pay the lifetime license. I’m moving to JamRudder instead! This is a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!
Does this mean I have to quadruple my donation?
I can barely afford to pay attention, now they want 4x as much? Who the fuck can afford 4 * $0 in the current economy?!
I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I'm really glad I did that now
Wait til John Jellyfin hears about this!
I remember I got Jellyfin Lifetime for only $0.00 back in like 2018 before that started unlocking all their new features behind a nonpaywall
Solid shitpost!
Any changes to Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (without Ads) this time? They just doubled it last year, if it goes any higher I'm out. I'm not gonna watch ads.
Joking aside, I do have a lifetime subscription to Emby, which shares a lot of the same code as Jellyfin. But the lifetime subscription was $99 which I viewed as a thank you donation to the developer(s). In the past 5 years or so it has been an excellent value.
How is emby? I've got jellyfin running but...the people I share my media with aren't exactly tech savvy, so any tiny issue that occurs, I am having to fix it by going to their house.
Is emby, just plex easy? Cause that's why I started looking at plex until this price increase happened.
Jellyfin is a fork of Emby due to some drama I can't quite remember. Last I used Emby a few years ago, both looked and operated basically the same as each other.
Jellyfin has made improvements since. I can't speak for Emby since I switched to Jellyfin.
Wasn't the drama Emby going closed source?
Emby is jellyfin with extra support and development. The apps came out earlier and for more platforms. It supports IPTV. Theres some pretty responsive forum support. Jellyfin may have these things too, but I chose Emby at the time for its native WebOS app.
Jellyfin these days has a bunch of apps, both official and 3rd party, for ALOT of platforms: https://github.com/awesome-jellyfin/awesome-jellyfin/blob/main/CLIENTS.md . webOS alone has 4 different apps available.
Well damn, so I'm not going to get lucky with the easy button for family then.
I bought a plex pass about 5 years ago. I figured it would be a reasonable long term investment. I am starting to think I should have just gone with Jellyfin to start with.
I’m curious, was it a lifetime pass? If so, how does the price increase affect you?
It wouldn't really, but you should already see "the writing on the wall". Your own collections aren't prioritized, and who knows what they'll do next - putting ads into your own personal collections maybe?
The final straw was when sent that "you need to pay a monthly fee to do remote streaming" email. It was intentionally worded very unclear... and they just so happened to have a "bug" around that time where many users got an error message saying that they needed to buy it, which isn't true, because I had a lifetime pass on the server.
It didn't feel ethical for me to continue using Plex, when I needed to explain to some friends and relatives that they should absolutely not give any of their money to Plex.
It wouldn't really, but you should already see "the writing on the wall". Your own collections aren't prioritized, and who knows what they'll do next - putting ads into your own personal collections maybe?
A lot of people are too hung up on what could happen, rather than what is happening. I don't see anything other than my own media since Plex can remember that that's how I want to use it. In daily use I don't see any of their additional attempts to generate income. I can share with anyone easily and not expect them to mess with any VPN or other tricks to connect remotely, and neither do I have to set any of that up.
It's nice that there are good alternatives, but none of them are a complete replacement for Plex. Jellyfin users on lemmy are just in a very special bubble within a bubble.
Yeah, the reality is that the people who bought the Lifetime pass a few years ago have gotten their money’s worth several times over. Hell, in my first year alone, it saved me more money on streaming services than I spent on the lifetime pass. So I made my money back in less than a year.
I'll bet they're using dirty rounding tricks too to misrepresent the price. For all we know, it could be as high as 6600 Iranian rials. Outrageous.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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Back when I was a kid zero dollars.. Er...pesos at the time... Meant something. It meant you could only go up from there.
Now, with all these CEOs getting in the way between you and a good time, now it means nothing! Whatever! Fine make it 10x as expensive! See if we care!
I recall a lot of people commenting how they were really happy with jellyfin after the plex increase
I am really happy with Jellyfin after giving up on Plex, after realizing they really do not care about their customers/users. We have a bug on LG TVs where Plex is incredibly sluggish, both to start up and to navigate. Even moving between elements on a single screen takes like 1.5 seconds.
Been a known bug to the developers for about a decade going by the forums. Devs have responded to this. They won't respond anymore. They don't care.
I openly suggested in the forum posts there, that people should move to Jellyfin, and that I was doing the same. Enough is enough. Plex used to be quite performance on my TV.
Jellyfin just flies, with the exact same library access.
Edit: there's a second bug which they've known about forever as well which is that Plex can't select the correct audio track no matter which one you select. It'll just pick English always (or perhaps the default/main track or whatever it is in a video container). Jellyfin handles this flawlessly. 👌
Jellyfin just flies
Idk about "flies", but it's tolerable. On older TVs it remains clunky, but usable. Also, definitely has it's share of bugs. But that's FOSS for you. I'm not going $750 out of pocket for it.
I have a TV from 2019, it surely flies on that. Compared to Plex anyway, with its 1–2s just to move a square outline from one movie poster to another movie poster, same hardware, same library. It's ridiculous. Jellyfin master race.
Also curious what kind of bugs you are encountering? I haven't seen any as of yet. Maybe one, where you are sometimes unable to back out of playing media with the remote back button and have to aim-click it with the cursor and middle button. Other than that I haven't seen anything else.
I have a TV from 2019, it surely flies on that.
I've got a newer TV from 2021 and it's great. On an older one from 2015 it surely does not.
Also curious what kind of bugs you are encountering?
Outside the latency, the biggest problem I have is matching shows to their metadata. Anything Disney related (Hocus Pocus, for instance) wants to tie itself to something totally random. Some anime (Frieren) refused to recognize the second season and keeps matching episodes to Season 01 titles/screenshots.
It's not the end of the world, but it's annoying and cumbersome. I've heard Sonarr/Radarr integration help, but then I'm down a rabbit hole of apps to support apps to support apps.
I just want something seamless and out of the box to organize my digital library, not a second job doing IT work to support a miniature Netflix.
Is it any better on a streaming box? Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything. I have an LG and haven't even bothered with the smart functions. If I made decisions, smart TVs would be best effort, always.
I don't know what a streaming box is exactly but,
Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything.
I don't think that's an excuse when all you need to do is show some pictures and text on screen, not even animate them. The video playing part works great, and streaming at UHD HDR 5.1 works fine. It's just the navigation part that Plex doesn't do well.
And like I said, it's even less of an excuse when Jellyfin doesn't have the same issue on the same hardware.
Another indication that Plex is doing something shitty is that the TVs own screensaver frame rate stutters when Plex is the open application. But not with any other app. So Plex clearly has some kind of working loop in the background that completely fucks its performance.
Well that's it. I'm going back to USB sticks.
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