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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[–] hedders@fedia.io 11 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

For me, the killer app for Plex is Plexamp, the music client. It's superb, and AFAIK Jellyfin doesn't really have an equivalent (there are 3P options, but they're lacking).

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For me (Android) I have used these:

  • Finamp
  • Default Jellyfin App
  • Symfonium

And Symfonium can do many sources and is the moat powerful.
Finamp is neat but couldnt do casting to my soundbar via google cast

[–] chrizzly@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago

Symfonium with Jellyfin all the way!

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't try any of them because I additionally set up Navidrome to handle my music collection. But Fintunes, Jamfish and Finamp all look like great music players.

[–] fluffy@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I have a navidrome server. Nothing, really nothing comes close to Plexamp and its features … sadly … but they all ain’t bad and got the basic stuff right

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

What features do you like? Not trying to convince you, I'm just curious.

[–] fluffy@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

Sonic Analysis and the amount of radios like style or mood radio for example.

I quote Plex here just because I’m lazy:

“Your Plex Media Server can perform a “sonic analysis” of your local music files to catalog detailed characteristics about the actual music itself. That data can then be used in a variety of ways, allowing you to see sonically similar artists/albums/tracks, play a Track Radio, or even suggest specific mixes for you, based on what you’ve already listened to.

It’s a powerful tool, allowing you to explore your music library in Plex like never before!”

It works quite impressive for my library.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Not the same person, but Plexamp uses plexs data / algorithms and had a way to create playlists and selected good songs. Hard to beat when not collecting data.