Comment by willio58
3 days ago
Hop on plex amp. Take control of your music.
I realize that sounds like an Ad but I’ve been using it for a few months and I feel like I’ve rediscovered my joy for music again.
3 days ago
Hop on plex amp. Take control of your music.
I realize that sounds like an Ad but I’ve been using it for a few months and I feel like I’ve rediscovered my joy for music again.
Given that Plex just bumped their lifetime subscription price to $750, I can no longer recommend them. They are clearly more interested in becoming another streaming service, and are I think trying to push out their core users who probably make them very little money.
Interesting, their price bump announcement actually just went and made me upgrade to lifetime (at $250 while I could) instead of write them off completely.
Netflix will never allow you to pay a one time fee for life, neither will any other streaming service on the planet.
Meanwhile, plex is a company that has employees. If I like plex, use it heavily, and want to support them I can do so with money. There are alternatives that are completely free, but I don’t like them as much and the minimal cost for plex is totally worth the value for me.
To each their own!
Their site says $250? https://www.plex.tv/plans/
Your very same link also has a huge yellow banner at the top of the page stating: "The price of a Lifetime Plex Pass is increasing on July 1, 2026."
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It’s worth 750, which is about ten years worth of yearly subscriptions.
Plex is 16 years old and the Lindy effect applies.
There is so much good free software out there for playing music that I have a hard time believing PlexAmp is worth $750.
They know it's not worth it either, they just want to push more users to the monthly subscription for that sweet ARR.
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is it?
vs a bit of ai slop to make my own music player?
the only things i care about is some essy enough to use upload process, basic serving, then that theres some smart enough local caching on whatever device im using
OrJellyfin or Navidrome if you want to use free open source that does a decent enough job.
It's good, but you still have to pay monthly for it. Feels like it kind of defeats the point of having a local collection.