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Jellyfin to quadruple their prices following Plex's price increases (old.reddit.com)

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If you haven't seen it yet, we recently made the announcement that starting July 1, 2026, the price of "Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)" will increase to $0.00 USD*. There has been a lot of enthusiasm regarding charge backs, and we're simply blown away by the community's response.

As we've had a high volume of inquiries, I'd ask if you could please wait until I'm off the support email shift to reach out about this issue. I've attached our schedule so you'll know when it is safe to reach out.

Thanks, and happy streaming!

*Example price in USD. Exact pricing in other currencies may vary.

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[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 113 points 1 week ago

Thank goodness I got a lifetime Jellyfin license years ago!

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 42 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I really missed the boat getting in on it when it was $0.00...

Now I'd better get it at $0.0 before it shoots up to $0 next year.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

yeah, the cynic in me thinks they’re just stoking the fomo to get more sales

[-] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I paid $0.02, but due to the penny shortage it rounded down to $0.00.

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[-] BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

I just keep getting the cracked versions

[-] exu@feditown.com 42 points 1 week ago

Yeah, some dude named jellyfin on Github keeps uploading the latest versions

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago

Eh, I'd rather fork out the money than try the 1% chance GitHub is up to download it. Piracy is a service issue

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Just mirror it locally in that small GitHub uptime window.

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[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 1 week ago

I decided to bite the bullet and just pay the price increase. I will be looking for other services to use before I am charged again. Does Windows Media Player work well for you guys?

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I heard on AIM that Winamp is good.

[-] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It really kicks the llama's ass!

[-] colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago

Whips!?

[-] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I was using VLC, but after they converted their cost into a subscription platform of $0 a month I had to move. Was going to use Jellyfin, but now this... Guess I'm gonna have to start putting all my media on film

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago

it's a gimmick guys, this is done so the memorial day 75% discount sale sound like a good deal, don't be sheeple

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is how you capitalize on someone else's mistake. Made me actually laugh.

It reminds me of Apple's response to Vista's pricing tiers in 2007.

During the Apple keynote that year they said there was going to be an OS X Basic for $129, an OS X Premium for $129, an OS X Business for $129, and an OS X Ultimate for $129.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 week ago

Vista pricing tiers were absurd. It still is, but vista was extra.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Few people even wanted vista for free

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[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 52 points 1 week ago

What a ripoff. I’ll be moving to plex thank you very much.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

something is wrong with my instance, I'm not getting any ads here

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week ago

Perhaps you paid x10 extra to get it without ads?

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[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 week ago

Does this mean I have to quadruple my donation?

[-] BuccaneerScientist@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

I am not going to say no.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago

This is outrageous! Im four times madder about this than I was before!

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 14 points 1 week ago

That’s almost 5 times!

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[-] kinther@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I bought a plex pass about 5 years ago. I figured it would be a reasonable long term investment. I am starting to think I should have just gone with Jellyfin to start with.

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

I’m curious, was it a lifetime pass? If so, how does the price increase affect you?

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 13 points 1 week ago

It wouldn't really, but you should already see "the writing on the wall". Your own collections aren't prioritized, and who knows what they'll do next - putting ads into your own personal collections maybe?

The final straw was when sent that "you need to pay a monthly fee to do remote streaming" email. It was intentionally worded very unclear... and they just so happened to have a "bug" around that time where many users got an error message saying that they needed to buy it, which isn't true, because I had a lifetime pass on the server.

It didn't feel ethical for me to continue using Plex, when I needed to explain to some friends and relatives that they should absolutely not give any of their money to Plex.

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[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the reality is that the people who bought the Lifetime pass a few years ago have gotten their money’s worth several times over. Hell, in my first year alone, it saved me more money on streaming services than I spent on the lifetime pass. So I made my money back in less than a year.

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[-] archchan@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

I'd rather donate $750 to Jellyfin than pay $750 to Plex for Lifetime.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago

No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now.

We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthly expenses of only ~$600, that's over 40 months (3.3 years) of runway! So, we have plenty of money for the near future.

Thus, at this time, we want you to seriously consider donating to the authors of Clients you use, instead of (or in addition to) the main project. Client support is the hardest part of the Jellyfin ecosystem to keep going, and most of them are maintained by only a single person or very small team.

Joshua Boniface, project admin

So give that applause-cash to a jellyfin client dev!

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[-] belunos@lemmus.org 21 points 1 week ago

I recall a lot of people commenting how they were really happy with jellyfin after the plex increase

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I am really happy with Jellyfin after giving up on Plex, after realizing they really do not care about their customers/users. We have a bug on LG TVs where Plex is incredibly sluggish, both to start up and to navigate. Even moving between elements on a single screen takes like 1.5 seconds.

Been a known bug to the developers for about a decade going by the forums. Devs have responded to this. They won't respond anymore. They don't care.

I openly suggested in the forum posts there, that people should move to Jellyfin, and that I was doing the same. Enough is enough. Plex used to be quite performance on my TV.

Jellyfin just flies, with the exact same library access.

Edit: there's a second bug which they've known about forever as well which is that Plex can't select the correct audio track no matter which one you select. It'll just pick English always (or perhaps the default/main track or whatever it is in a video container). Jellyfin handles this flawlessly. 👌

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[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

I just got a refund, I'm moving to Real Player

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[-] ifmu@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Unbelievable! I just recently switched to and started paying for Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads) to see if I wanted to pay the lifetime license. I’m moving to JamRudder instead! This is a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 1 week ago

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I'm really glad I did that now

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

WHEREZ DO SUBSCRIBE JELLYFLIN?

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[-] mik3dd0@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Ngl, you got me there in the first half XD

[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

[-] roundup5381@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Wait til John Jellyfin hears about this!

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[-] nuko147@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I will wait to buy it at black Thursday.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

We're going to need to double Bezo's taxes to pay for this.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Can I pay in installments?

[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

lol they got me.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

I remember I got Jellyfin Lifetime for only $0.00 back in like 2018 before that started unlocking all their new features behind a nonpaywall

[-] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 week ago

Love my jellyfin setup. Podman + roku app is 🤌

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