So we got Free version of Plexamp :)

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    1 year ago

    Too little to late imo. I long switched to jellyfin and can use all the features that plexamp offered for free in various apps of my choosing

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      1 year ago

      Ya I’m surprised that people are advocating for Plex these days especially in a self hosting community, it’s overbloated and mostly exists to force their FAST service down your throat

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        1 year ago

        Plex has to be one thing where I like the bloat. It makes it feel like a fully featured streaming service that I control instead of just a fancy looking video folder.

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        1 year ago

        I’m assuming cause it works good enough for most that the incentive to change it nearly none. Kinda the same deal with moving from reddit, works good for the use case that open stuff might be worse.

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      1 year ago

      which apps? I tried jellyfin and plexamp works better than any of the jellyfin android music players I tried.

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        1 year ago

        If you don’t mind using Xbox Media Player you can enable dlna in jellyfin. It’s how I typically stream to my smart tv

        • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Doesn’t hold a candle to the plex setup. I might be able to deal with it, but I would miss the UI, and my wife wouldn’t go for it at all.

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t looked in a few years, does jellyfin have seeded shuffling where you pick a song and it builds a playlist around it?

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    1 year ago

    Such great news. I absolutely love Plexamp and now that it’s free for the masses I can only hope there’s more awesome features coming in the future.

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      1 year ago

      Im betting lunch they are losing market to jellyfin and the free finamp.

      Plexamp has been kinda stagnant for a while and can be finicky on lossy connections (ie: cell service)

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        1 year ago

        Another shitty thing about Plexamp is there is no easy way to download your entire library in a converted format and auto download any new additions.

        The developer said that “this is not the intended use of Plexamp”, but the reasoning is flawed IMO

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    1 year ago

    The only thing keeping me on Plex is iOS downloads supported natively.

    The second Swiftfin gets that I will be switching fully to Jellyfin

    Unless Plex adds something new and exciting that pushes them beyond FOSS offerings

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    1 year ago

    I tried it on Linux Mint and I’m directed to FlatHub, which states:

    ★★ You’ll need a Plex Media Server and an active Plex Pass to use this app ★★

    Installed it anyway, but:

    A Plex Pass is required to use this app. Trust us, it's worth it.

    I guess they didn’t update that version yet?

    Edit ~24 hours later: I just got the update. It works now.
    Edit 2: … but media keys don’t seem to work :(