Plex
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A multimedia tool for streaming movies, TV shows, sports, and music while facilitating personal media organization with versatile libraries and metadata retrieval.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Snapcraft
- Android Auto
- Apple TV
- Flathub
- Daydream
- Kindle Fire
- Android TV
- Amazon Alexa
- Kodi
- Google TV
- Playstation
- Docker
- Fire TV
- Roku
- Chromecast
- Xbox
- Docker Hub
Features
Plex News & Activities
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Recent News
- Mauricio B. Holguin published news article about Plex
- Mauricio B. Holguin published news article about Plex
- Mauricio B. Holguin published news article about Plex
Recent activities
Ivo-Boskovic added Plex as alternative to OPUS Suite
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Updates:
May 20th, 2022: Replaced Mylar with Mylar3. Removed Cardigan due to discontinuation of development.
May 17th, 2022: Removed CouchPotato since it has been officially discontinued and the github repo archived by the author. Added "Readarr" and "Requestrr" to media management and request management.
May 16th, 2022: Added additional apps to the Honorable Mentions section.
March 27, 2019: Added MediaElch for metadata editing, TagScanner for audio file metadata editing, and Emby as an alternative to Plex.
December 3, 2018: Added Soundiiz for online music service playlist synchronization.
July 30, 2018: Added Mylar and Ombi.
July 28, 2018: Added Honorable Mentions section with other noteworthy media apps.
July 11, 2018: Added cTiVo as a media downloader.
June 18, 2018: Added a section for Search and Indexer utilities, which may utilized by the various Media Managers also listed below.
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Developed by
Plex, Inc. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase that costs $250, and / or subscription ranging between $2 and $7 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
I decided to give Plex a shot and it definitely looks promising. It's based on XBMC, but it's much cleaner, nice looking, fast, elegant. It's still under development but I find it pretty neat.
It supports various Media Center clients in sync out of the box (in XBMC you have to do some real plumming to make this work).
Give it a try.
Plex is actually pretty good in a lot of respects--a beautiful interface that pulls a ton of information together in 'just the right way'.
But I will never use Plex again. Newer versions of Plex go out of their way to prevent you from using it unless you sign in to their cloud account. I fought for hours after an update to my home media server locked everyone out and suddenly started requiring we link to cloud accounts. No thanks. I'll find someone else for my media library.
Plus Plex collecting user data. Plex also prevents device from sleep mode
Plex is a powerful and versatile home theater solution that lets you stream your media collection across multiple devices. Whether you want to watch movies, TV shows, music, or photos, Plex can organize and deliver them to you with ease.
On the plus side: It works, the players are easy to find and install for multiple platforms and devices, and the server can even run on a Raspberry Pi.
On the minus side: You have to sign into their cloud account to do most things. And it's constantly trying to push you into purchasing a subscription. Even if you're only using it with your local collection.
If you want to use it for remote streaming, that's one thing. But I just want to listen to my own library of music on my own network. It shouldn't have to connect to a remote service, sending who knows what local data, just for that.
(Oh, and installing on a Pi? You need to either hook up a display to it or use an ssh tunnel to complete setup if you're trying to run it as a headless server.)
If you'd like to create your own Netflix/Spotify, Plex is the way to go.
split between shows and movies NOT good
Its nice! But I dont want to pay for the android app, when I host my own server. Jellyfin is a better alternative.