• ShortFuse@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m enjoying my Plex one and Nexus Mods. The latter one was in 2013 and cost me $40. Today the yearly subscription is $70.

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      I got a Plex lifetime sub back in the day. They never got rid of it, but they did enshittify the product out from under me.

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          I tried it, but not only does the experience not feel nearly as polished, the performance is much worse than Plex in my experience.

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          Im using Jellyfin now. It’s great, but it doesn’t have the same support across platforms. It was nice to have a native Plex app on the TV, Xbox, etc. I’m now just switching to Chromecasts on the TVs and teaching my wife to use the app for everything.

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        7 months ago

        Same here, although I’m still using it. It’s doing what I got it for and some of the additions are welcome (I use live TV fairly often and some friends and I are sharing libraries) but I have been concerned. What made you switch and did you find something better?

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          I still actively use Plex, but I’ve been trying Jellyfin. It’s almost there but still has some work to do to catch up to Plex fully. However, its wonderfully free from bloat. I can’t stand all the crap they’ve added to Plex. Especially when I search for content that’s IN MY LIBRARY and the result it sends me to is a streaming service I don’t even have. 😡

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            Yeah, I have never really used search for that same reason, I don’t have enough to lose track of anyway.

            Thanks for the reply though. I hear about jellyfin a lot and my needs are simple so I’m gonna give it a go.

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            I still find myself using Plex for its native DVR functions. NextDVR alway seemed a little bit buggier, after finally getting an IPTV source working in Plex I went back (at least for DVR stuff).

            Edit: forgot to add, Plexamp and the way Plex does its sonic analysis is worth the lifetime subscription cost to me.

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      Yep. I bought Plex pass lifetime for $60 a while back. It came with plexamp which allowed me stream music to my phone.

      Which after Google play music was murdered I vowed never to do a streaming service again.

      So that was worth it.

      Say what you want about the direction Plex is going currently… But as of now it 100% meets my needs.

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      Scooping up a lifetime sub to Nexus, back when they were still available, might have been one of my best online moves. If a game can be modded, I will be modding it - I get SO much value from that one-time investment.

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        You’re not paying for mods though, you’re paying for faster downloads and no ads.

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          Also you’re supporting modders through Donation Points. Creators get real money proportional to mod download count. The mods are still free, to clarify.

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            Oh yeah I mean, it’s expensive. But if you’re very much into modding and like me don’t like your gbit download speed to be limited to 3mbit or whatever the free thing is… I get paying it.

            I wouldn’t pay for what yearly costs now, but the 40eur lifetime price 10 years ago sure wasn’t a bad deal.

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      You can get Plex lifetime for around 80 USD during their occasional sales. I bought a lifetime sub for ≈80 USD on 2020-11-30