Plex is rolling out its big app redesign
Plex is rolling out its big app redesign
Following months of testing, Plex has started to roll out its redesigned mobile app to Android and iOS devices, and it will arrive to everyone within the next week. The new app comes with an updated navigation system that should make it easier to access different parts of the app and find content to watch, along with a dedicated tab for centralized media libraries.
It also has a button in the top-right corner of the screen for your Watchlist and more artwork across detail pages for shows and movies, as well as cast and crew profiles. In a post on the Plex forum, the company outlines a ton of improvements it has made to the app since the preview, including faster load times and scrolling, the addition of a sleep timer, and picture-in-picture support.
I’ve also rolled out my big upgrade: Jellyfin
And Jellyfin is better and free. I don’t trust Plex with my content and I don’t want their added streaming bloatware.
In some ways it is... In others it's definitely not.
My biggest problem is that I can't expose it on a domain for my family to get to. They don't know how to VPN and to educate them would be exhausting.
So I have a NAS running Ubuntu I only keep my movies, my Jellyfin, and torrent software on in an isolated VLAN I stream from. I would think this would make any security issue with Jellyfin a dead end. I stream all content from Jellyfin domain I made and never use it locally. I stream off it at home from my VPN. This seems a safe way to stream where it can be used away from home unless I am missing something? Pointing out any holes in my logic is appreciated.
Why does plex need all of this shit? I literally only wanted to use it to stream my local stuff. Now that's just a tiny part of the app.
I say now, but I don't think I've used it at all in the past couple of years.
Enshittening
This update is so good that I switched my server to jellyfin. I didn't like it last time I used it, but it seems that they made a lot of improvements and now the app is kinda fire
Wow, this can only be a disaster. People on the Plex experience preview forum are pissed. The android build hasn't been updated in a month, I didn't think it would be rolled out for another 3-6 months.
So many features are missing, the only way to remove Plex rentals/free is by going into your account settings, performance is shit even just scrolling your media.
I haven't looked at the beta client in a while and was wondering how they could've gotten it ready this fast. Guess I'll pin my app version real quick.
Damn it, I don't want to switch to Jellyfin
I already switched to jellyfin after the last monthly cost for stream online.
I hate this update
- no manual PiP which existed in the previous version. The auto PiP works sometimes
- multiple freezes, seemingly random
- phone gets way hotter and drains battery faster
- looks like yet another generic streaming app “experience”
If only Jellyfin onboarding was as easy for friends and family…
If only Jellyfin onboarding was as easy for friends and family…
What makes it harder is that you can't just expose it to the internet... https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
In order to use Jellyfin you now have to get all your users onto a vpn or some other tunneling service. It's crazy.
I have both installed... I want to deprecate Plex SO FUKCING BAD. But Jellyfin just isn't good enough.
If the fact that a 128-bit value when sent to your server can retrieve a single piece of media or user info then I have real bad news about what you can do with a typically much shorter password.
Is it ideal that you can retrieve streams or user info from Jellyfin if you know the ID of the entity you're looking for? No, obviously not. But you need to authenticate to get those IDs in the first place, and there are fewer bits of entropy in most people's passwords than there are in UUIDs.
Being able to get streams unauthenticated by guessing the correct UUID is arguably still better security than using passwords without 2FA.
Wonder how many things they shit up
I was surprised to find that an old Plex feature, controlling any one player from any other instance, such as playing on a laptop and controlling with a cell phone, no longer worked. My wife and I used that a lot when traveling, as plugging a laptop into a hotel TV with an HDMI cable is generally far more bullet proof than any streaming stick
Course sometimes we'd stay in an Airbnb, and they'd have a Roku or Apple TV, where we'd just sign into a Plex app and use it there. But that's beyond the point
How do people feel about Emby as an alternative?
The full feature is paid. Not saying that thats not fair, but jellyfin is completely free
I use it and enjoy it more than plex tbh. The ads are a little annoying but I’d rather an ad for an app I’m currently using and enjoying than anything else. As soon as they go the plex route though, which will happen, I’m switching to jellyfin
Maybe they’ll finally fix their bugs!