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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You can just download the episodes though? Like right in Jellyfin:

Because yes, you can just copy files from your NAS to your phone's internal storage (assuming you don't care about transcoding and the like)... at which point there isn't much use to a metadata oriented media server/service.

No you do not need to do any of that.

Or you can just set up Plex to always download the next 10 episodes of whatever show you are watching when it has network access. I mean... that probably won't work (see: 40%) but when it does, it is awesome. Which is the "it just works" functionality.

You can download in Jellyfin also, like in the screenshot above.

anyone asking for anything else is wrong and stupid.

I mean, you are asking for things that are already in the app, you tell me if that's stupid or not. I'm just trying to help.

I'd never call anyone even trying to use these self-hosted alternatives stupid.

Jellyfin devs could actually get the "download the next N episodes" functionality to reliably work (even at 80-90%) it would be a killer app

Is there some reason you can't do this manually? I actually can't think of any app with this feature, not even Netflix way back not Spotify.