[jellyfin voice] Oh no.... thats terrible!
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Keep this up and they’ll be jellyfinished!
I hope this brings more platform maturity and adoption of jellyfin. Tried it like a year ago and was really unhappy with subtitles and overall accessibility.
I’ve had lifetime plex for a long time and it’s been worth it for a thing that still mostly just works and is not an app I need to side load or jailbreak, I want jellyfin to have that and beat out plex - it wouldn’t be hard.
This $750 nonsense just sounds like a cash grab because they are losing market share though. I remember hellgate london’s lifetime sub.
This isn’t the move you pull if you’re losing market share. This is the move you pull when you’ve got a big enough market share.
Can't speak to whatever else you may have experienced, but subtitles have seen significant improvement over the last year or so.
If I remember with subtitles there wasn't a way to source them in the app or swap to ones that might have different timings unless you downloaded them yourself manually. Did that change or am I remembering wrong?
I don't believe this is an option yet unfortunately. I think jellyfin is great and will always keep using it over plex, but I agree the subtitle management is not great.
There's a plugin that can do that, but it requires a little setup and an external account.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/plugins/open-subtitles/
My subtitles are awesome. Except on Roku, the official Jellyfin app is lacking. But Jellyrock is pretty great.
I bought the Plex Lifetime Subscription at like $80 (or maybe $120?) years ago. I still moved to Jellyfin.
Plex became too cumbersome and... They hide the "local IPs that can connect without auth" behind "advanced settings" and when I moved... I couldn't use my own media through Plex for over a day until internet was setup.
Just remember that lifetime means Plex's lifetime, not yours.
Not quite. It’s “your lifetime, or plexes lifetime, whichever ends sooner.”
Important distinction, since you can’t pass that lifetime purchase on when you die.
I get that lifetime is a long time and this doesn't affect existing customers... but what's the point of paying so much for Plex when Jellyfin is free?
For me, the biggest reason I stick with Plex is because I have people who watch my library on PS4 and PS5, but Jellyfin doesn't have media apps for Sony platforms.
For me it's basically the same. I have people who use my library and they can access through anything. And I can access through anything because everything has a first party app. I don't have to dig around and sort out code or any third party options. There's a first party app for everything.
I took a while to get my lifetime plex pass, but I got it last black Friday and I really couldn't be happier.
I know jellyfin is great and I know plex has some sort of limitations that just paid users can get but, still, I'm paid user and I can use it pretty well. Jellyfin is great but requires too much config and some of my users don't want to mess up with that
Do these platforms have Kodi? If so, I think it’s even easier to access any library.
Less point every day. Jellyfin is getting better and Plex is getting more expensive and occasionally worse.
Jellyfin isn’t meant to be used for remote streaming, isn’t compatible with most devices people use to stream media too, and is a nightmare to share your library with friends and family.
Plex solved all of these problems like a decade ago, whereas the JellyFin devs don’t even acknowledge them as problems, more just “out of scope”.
Huh?
Just download the Jellyfin app on whatever device and log in... Or use the web browser
Oh I’ll just wish the app into existence on every device lol
I mean, it's on Android, iOS, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, Tizen/Samsung TVs, LG TV, Roku, Xbox...
What's the issue?
they want it on EVERY device. geez.. nobody ever thinks of punch cards and 8tracks anymore.
It’s not on all LG/samsung tvs. It’s not on the dozen other brands of tvs.
I didn’t like Plex back then, Jellyfin was non-existent at that point. I stuck with Kodi on PCs and laptops (and Android, where you can have Kodi no problem), and VLC on iPads and iPhones. And for a dumb-smart TV (which has no Kodi) a basic UPnP server (Kodi has it in settings) does the job.
What are these friends and family devices? You can share content to Kodi not only via UPnP, but also via ftp. Which I found many times simpler and even faster, with no difference at all on the client (Kodi).
I may have missed something, but in my extended family everyone is covered quite easily. VLC for iOS isn’t that fancy comparing to having covers, metadata and all, but if they know what they want to watch, that’s no problem at all.
We’re talking about Plex and Jellyfin here…..
And which project Plex was forked from? Remind me, pretty please.
The Plex that exists today is nothing like XBMC.
Both of your comments are irrelevant. If you have nothing to contribute, don’t contribute. All projects are similar in what they do. XBMC, Kodi, Plex, Jellyfin. They allow playing content off various devices. They all are different. I wrote an extensive comment telling why Kodi solves my problems gracefully, asking what’s the use cases Plex does better. Your contribution is worse than not commenting at all. You waste my time, and yours too. I ban you, so I’d suggest you to spare others of yourself in this thread too.
You coming in and talking about XBMC/Kodi has absolutely nothing to do with the differences between Plex and JellyFin. No one cares if Kodi can do remote streaming safely because that doesn't mean JellyFin can lol.
This feels like a death rattle. A lot of things jack up their prices at the end to squeeze every last penny out that they can right before they go under. It's too bad, Plex was amazing about 15 years.
It’s the death rattle for new lifetime licenses, not for Plex.
They want everyone on subscriptions.
I see the enshittification of Plex continues apace. Makes me more pleased than ever I made the effort to set up my Jellyfin server when they started down this path.
I'm guessing a private equity got involved?
Lol, ok. I still won’t buy it. I wouldn’t even buy it at 100x the price.
Well this is likely another step toward eliminating it altogether. Clearly they won't sell many, if any, at that price point, which is egregiously expensive, and will use that as justification to end it altogether, including for those of us who have long been such a paid member (I got a lifetime Plex Pass when it was $50 back in like 2009 or 2010, whenever they first began the program). And they'll act like they have no choice.
I suppose I need to set up Jellyfin and start looking at how best to convert family I have connected.
They won’t kill existing lifetime licenses, that would cause immeasurable damage. They’ll just stop selling new ones.
It’s worth it to make the switch, imo
I'm not so sure with my family. They're not that great with things changing :)
Maybe Plex is trying to make their Exit Scam more lucrative.
That's 10 times what I paid for it
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Have plex pass since 201X. Already moved to jellyfin and use jellysync (docker name??) to synchronise watched media. There is zero reason for anyone to use plex server in 2026. Jellyfin does everything plex did
There are many reasons to use Plex over jellyfin. The biggest ones are library sharing and remote access.
Wow. I got mine on sale for $80.
What's that?
Self hosted media streaming software