Gregory's Server@vkc I've been a Plex (and PlexAmp) user for 4 years. Is it worth the effort to switch over? Do you have any videos comparing the two?
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 I never used PlexAmp, so can't say anything about it, but I switched over this year. It works a charm, on par with plex, at least for me. But the main reasons I switched are: - Plex not working when the internet is down. All my media is on my local network, why do I need internet to watch it:  @ainmosni @vkc Thanks for the feedback and your reasoning. Appreciate it! Plex not working when the internet goes down is an annoying pain point. As for the other reasons: you can opt completely out of sharing any history in your account settings (and I encourage my friends to do this). And once you turn off discovery and pin your local media libraries, I never even consider that Plex cares about anything else. For me the final points are more hints that they are going to enshittify more and more over time. Simply said, I don't trust the company anymore. @killyourfm @vkc PlexAmp is irreplaceable. JellyFin as a music listening solution is vastly lacking in that regard (at least for me and last time I’ve checked it). @manmachine @vkc That's helpful, thanks! I happen to love PlexAmp especially for all of its "Sonic" abilities. But I don't mind keeping it (lifetime Plex pass) and switching to Jellyfin for everything else if it's compelling enough.  @killyourfm If you're using Plex for your audio, Jellyfin probably isn't full featured enough yet. Jellyfin in particular doesn't have offline play of your audio library. For me that's a dealbreaker as I can't go into airplane mode. (insert iPod snark here) There is a third party Jellyfin audio player called Finamp which is better, but offline play is buggy and album based only. Plex likely outperforms just because it's a more mature ecosystem. No videos yet on it but I'm considering it! @vkc Thanks Veronica, appreciate your reply. |
@killyourfm @vkc I want to know the same thing because I’ve been thinking of switching.