[HN Gopher] Plex raises $40M to expand and compete with tech giants
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Plex raises $40M to expand and compete with tech giants
Author : Sytten
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-02-02 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| PaulHoule wrote:
| Note that packing in ads for a lot of off-brand streaming
| services is why I quit Plex and switched to the otherwise
| inferior Jellyfin. Way to go!
| sokoloff wrote:
| As a long time, happy, paid user of Plex, this makes me worry
| that they're going to continue to make it a worse experience...
| pjerem wrote:
| Try Jellyfin. It's the same thing Plex once was but fully open
| source.
| sokoloff wrote:
| I have (and have a Jellyfin server running on the network).
| IMO, it's nowhere near as polished as the 2017 version of
| Plex. Cover art and metadata matching is terrible. Plex seems
| to handle slightly "off" filenames and folder names far
| better.
|
| Every so often I update jellyfin and try again, only to find
| it's still a worse experience than Plex.
| pmx wrote:
| I'm more than willing to take the trade off of slightly
| worse metadata and a less polished UI vs plex reporting all
| my media, habits, etc to their movie studio bed partners.
| They've already turned on their users and are abandoning
| what made plex great to begin with. Once you get used to
| JellyFin it's really great.
| speff wrote:
| This is why I never take the jellyfin evangelicals
| seriously. Plex is good software - nothing has been taken
| away and my experience with it has been consistently good
| and stable for multiple years.
|
| > plex reporting all my media, habits, etc to their movie
| studio bed partners
|
| There is no proof that they're doing what you're
| claiming. From what I've seen, people love trying to to
| push jellyfin by making things up about plex. Also a
| polished UI/UX counts for a lot more than the solo-user
| jellyfin crowd thinks.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I have had a devil of a time getting Plex to recognize file
| names. I wish I could just directly write things to its
| damn fucking database.
| endisneigh wrote:
| Follow the naming standard:
|
| https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-
| your-...
|
| You can go to open subs and use those names
| alternatively, which follow the standard. Or just use
| jellyfin.
| DonnyV wrote:
| Can they use some of that money to actually fix there horrible
| syncing with music on Android? Its been years now since it worked
| right.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| Oof, I keep thinking of switching off Youtube Music in favor of
| Plex :/
| endisneigh wrote:
| Good. Nice to see it becoming better funded, but I hope the
| growth doesn't bite it in the butt.
|
| I use Plex and turned off all of the sponsored stuff. It's easy.
| Jellyfin is neat too but I find Plex to be superior, albeit not
| open source. Ymmv
|
| I do always wonder why folks complain about Plex ads. It's pretty
| trivial to remove all of them.
| eightysixfour wrote:
| Because we paid for lifetime licenses before the
| enshittification started.
| endisneigh wrote:
| I'm confused - is the experience different if you pay now?
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| How would you bring media ownership to the masses? A hardware
| "hub" you can put a disc in and it rips it and organizes it and
| allows your family to stream it?
|
| They could add a cloud based subscription for storage if you
| don't want their hub. The tech is all out there, someone just
| needs to do it in an Apple-like dead-simple manner.
| psyclobe wrote:
| I've been buying Blu-ray's.. so tired of plex messing up the
| simplest of encoded videos.
|
| Was good while it lasted.
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