I had the same desires and switched to Jellyfin. It definitely has its idiosyncracies but I don't regret the switch.
Absolutely worth it imo. I mean it helps the developers and along with what others have said, for me Plexamp music player is the nuts. Forked originally from Winamp it plays all my music across all my devices including Android Auto like a personal Spotify
Plexamp is literally the only thing keeping me with Plex. I probably have less than 2500 songs and it still blows Spotify out of the water for generating playlists. I absolutely love the random album radio and being able to shuffle music by the decade. I find that I actually explore my music more vs just selecting what I want to hear in the moment.
For me, it's worth it for the doubled bitrate over the PLEX proxy. I'll probably be moving out of my parents' home next year into an apartment complex, and can't guarantee that I'll be able to set up port forwarding on the ntwork.
Just use Cloudflared then, no need to port forward. Or use a VPN with port forwarding and a dynamic dns
Note that Plex is against Cloudflare's ToS. No guarantee they will terminate your account, but it's a risk.
Could also consider Tailscale.
The Plex Pass unlocks hardware transcoding, which is a huge benefit alone. As others have said, it unlocks things like skip intro, credits detection, playing trailers before movies. It also unlocks the DVR feature, allowing you to attach an inexpensive antenna to your network and start recording over-the-air channels. It is very worth it.
Absolutely not. Plex gets shittier with every update. Their Android app is abaolute dogshit and as been for years. The amount of useless scope creep on their software is insane, and I have a feeling that pretty soon the entire software will be paywalled.
Most benefits require both the server user and the end user to have Plex Pass.
Personally I prefer Emby or even Jellyfin over Plex.
That's not true. Only the server needs to have Plexpass to offer downloads and whatnot to regular user.
Yeah home users get all the perks that the server owner gets.
Does skip intro not require everyone to have pass? Yes it does, https://support.plex.tv/articles/skip-content/
Also app installs requiring either a 1time unlock per user or the end user to have plex pass? Yes it does
That's not "most" benefits. The most sought after benefits do not require plexpass.
As a music collector the lifetime subscription is worth it just for full access to Plexamp.
your better off spending a couple of quid on getting Symfonium and use that instead of Plexamp - Plexamps great, but Symfoniums better
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