Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

Ahoy mateys, it’s time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

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.

    • fl42v@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      27 minutes ago

      As in, symfonium.app? If so, seems questionable, given its proprietary nature and unavailability outside the play store. Although, the feature set is interesting.

      Edit: yeeeah, no

      From their FAQ:

      licences checks requires a call to the verification server from time to time

      The license is tied to your Google account