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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same. My wife also just asked me to get a bunch of audio books too...so looks like I have to set up that now

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The default Jellyfin client isn't great for audiobooks.
    For Apple iOS you might wanna look at https://github.com/LeoKlaus/plappa
    For Android I would look at https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
    Personally I just download the audiobooks from Jellyfin and play it in https://f-droid.org/packages/com.prangesoftwaresolutions.audioanchor/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I would recommend audiobookshelf for the audiobooks, especially if you have your stuff running in docker. It seemed to me like the solutions to force Plex or jellyfin to do books were a bit more hacky than I wanted.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Dude, I'm blown away by how easy AudioBookShelf was to set up. I was going to go with Jellyfin for audiobooks too since I already had my libraries set up, but I wanted to try an alternative just to see. So easy, I was up and running in under 10 minutes! Thanks for the recommendation!

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