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Jellyfin or Emby.
What’s plex better at?
Getting people to pay to watch their locally stored media?
It literally says 'remote access'
I think the GUI is more refined and the initial setup a bit easier for casual users. I'm a Jellyfin user, because my online entertainment budget is exactly $0.
Yeah it took me a few hours of research and plugin setup to get feature parity with Plex, and then even so I don't have anything to replace plexamp yet
Not sure how features compare, but finamp exists for jellyfin if you're looking for a jellyfin-music-player-thingy
If I’m not mistaken Emby started to do some sketchy stuff which birthed Jellyfin.