So long Plex, after years of being useful - you have pushed another user into the arms of Emby.
With the addition of an LG TV app on the way (and a decent alternative to use until then), I have made that jump and it’s been very painless to do so.
I shall not miss the incomplete features, the many bugs and the forced interaction with your servers for authentication.
Good on you. Thanks for letting us know.
The Plex board will miss your many posts and input.
@thefad3done said:
So long Plex, after years of being useful - you have pushed another user into the arms of Emby.With the addition of an LG TV app on the way (and a decent alternative to use until then), I have made that jump and it’s been very painless to do so.
I shall not miss the incomplete features, the many bugs and the forced interaction with your servers for authentication.
Thanks for sharing your positive experience with migrating to Emby.
Anyone else with positive experiences leaving Plexistan?
@latweek said:
Anyone else with positive experiences leaving Plexistan?
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/289684/move-to-emby-is-completed-report/p1
You guys running to Emby make me laugh , there TOS are barely any better than Plexs LOL , see ya dude ,
@latweek said:
@thefad3done said:
So long Plex, after years of being useful - you have pushed another user into the arms of Emby.With the addition of an LG TV app on the way (and a decent alternative to use until then), I have made that jump and it’s been very painless to do so.
I shall not miss the incomplete features, the many bugs and the forced interaction with your servers for authentication.
Thanks for sharing your positive experience with migrating to Emby.
Anyone else with positive experiences leaving Plexistan?
I’m testing both clients side by side to see if it’s viable for me.
This far the windows client has a functional and visually appealing (unlike PMP), the live tv/DVR feature is complete. My IPTV m3u playlist integrates directly into the TV feature, so I have seamless integration there. It’s quite impressive.
We’ll see how it pans out.
@latweek said:
@thefad3done said:
So long Plex, after years of being useful - you have pushed another user into the arms of Emby.With the addition of an LG TV app on the way (and a decent alternative to use until then), I have made that jump and it’s been very painless to do so.
I shall not miss the incomplete features, the many bugs and the forced interaction with your servers for authentication.
Thanks for sharing your positive experience with migrating to Emby.
Anyone else with positive experiences leaving Plexistan?
Yup, been using Emby for a few weeks and already bought a lifetime pass. It has all the features I need, some more control over how libraries are displayed, is more consistent across apps, and the devs actually respond and seem to care (and aren’t rude!).
@chris0101 said:
You guys running to Emby make me laugh , there TOS are barely any better than Plexs LOL , see ya dude ,
It is not strictly about TOS, but how Plex treats users like crap, and have priorities at odds to what I value, and generally offer bug-ridden inconsistent apps.
Plex has become like Apple: they will tell you whether or not you need a headphone jack (and to like it!), and if you need any help then you are on your own (or you’re just holding it wrong). My only regret is having wasted my money on a 1-year Plex Pass.
Emby, on the other hand, feels like moving to a new neighborhood and walking into the local pub for the first time. It may not be the prettiest joint, and they may not have dozens of beer on tap, but you actually feel welcomed as a new patron… and they’ll at least hear you out when you try to convince them to carry Innis & Gunn on tap.
TOS are also better. MUCH better!!!
@chris0101 said:
You guys running to Emby make me laugh , there TOS are barely any better than Plexs LOL , see ya dude ,
For me it is not really about the Terms of Service. That’s just one more straw of many. What breaks the camel’s back, so to speak, is the News Feed. Plex has PLENTY of unfinished features and unfixed bugs.
And instead of things the community has been clamoring for for ages, Plex forces upon us a cashgrabby News Feed—which nobody wanted nor asked for; was obviously created to sell our viewing analytics; only provides American news sources; is front and center on the sidebar/dashboard; and can not be disabled.
It isn’t, for me, a childish response to their changes in TOS. It’s that they really have no desire to make their users happy. They want to make their investors happy by chasing the almighty dollar. Pure and simple, end of story. Although, how removing the web client’s multi-disc subheadings and ruining the background wallpaper makes any money I’ll never know.
As opposed to Emby, where the second post I ever made on their forums was just plain asking about some feature, and it almost immediately got a response from an actual dev who straight up said “we’ll include that in the next update.” It’s night and day.
And the Emby software is no slouch either. It just has a higher learning curve to get everything situated.
@chris0101 said:
You guys running to Emby make me laugh , there TOS are barely any better than Plexs LOL , see ya dude ,
I can block the spying.
But I can’t make Plex devs learn how to complete a feature and pay attention to their consumers.
That’s the difference. Elan is about to learn a hard lesson about how capitalism works.
@chris0101 said:
You guys running to Emby make me laugh , there TOS are barely any better than Plexs LOL , see ya dude ,
Not about the TOS, it’s the unfinished features, the bugs, the fact im forced to have my local server go via Plex to login to it remotely, even if I go to it directly via IP. When the Plex website went down the other day, it crippled my server. I couldn’t get on anything because of all this calling back to plex.tv…
I’ve setup emby, I’ve setup remote access and I don’t have an emby account (nor is it required), I can access it remotely with local account logins without having to go through embys website… so if their website does go down I can still view my stuff locally and remotely… Its features just work and bugs are being worked on (simple look on their forums shows this), it’s what Plex WAS. That’s the key thing here. I signed up to Plex pass lifetime years ago and it WAS great… Not anymore.
My time with emby so far has been really positive. It’s not as simple to setup as Plex but once you get around that, it’s just as good, it’s in active development and the Devs listen to it’s users without the need of a massive backlash on Reddit for it backpedal on something.
It’s still early days of course but so far I’ve had no issues what so ever and for my needs, emby ticks all the boxes. If Plex is still doing what you need it to do, great. I’m glad. It’s just not the same thing I signed up to ages ago anymore and as such is no good to me.
@chyron8472 said:
As opposed to Emby, where the second post I ever made on their forums was just plain asking about some feature, and it almost immediately got a response from an actual dev who straight up said “we’ll include that in the next update.” It’s night and day.
I am actually really interested how Emby handles things in the future. This dev, Luke, is practically THE only dev you see in their forum and as user base grows he can’t read every thread and incorporate every feature request that some user posts. This only works because of the low number of users. The same feeling I have for their system in general. If you use it more thoroughly you will see its flaws, because also Emby is not bug free. Emby is now sexy because for most of us/you it is new and different. That impression might change.
@Coxeroni said:
I am actually really interested how Emby handles things in the future. This dev, Luke, is practically THE only dev you see in their forum and as user base grows he can’t read every thread and incorporate every feature request that some user posts. This only works because of the low number of users. The same feeling I have for their system in general. If you use it more thoroughly you will see its flaws, because also Emby is not bug free. Emby is now sexy because for most of us/you it is new and different. That impression might change.
I have actually evaluated Emby several times, and used it back when it was called MediaBrowser. At one point Plex had features I needed which Emby lacked so I settled on Plex, but I kept trying Emby once a year or so and have lurked on both forums. Deeply regret every giving Plex my money, just not nice people in how they do business.
I have Emby running in parallel, and until now there is actually nothing which is stopping the switch except for my laziness. The AppleTV app is a bit rough, but that will eventually get fixed (and strangely enough it’s actually a lots more stable than what plex started out to be), the server side lacks a few features, but nothing one can’t live without.
As everyone else have pointed out, the silliness from Plex like the forced upon “News” and privacy discussion has not made me want to stay with plex … and as I said the only reason why I’m still using it, is down-to laziness.
What I don’t get is, why more unwanted features for a product which has some serious stability problems…
@Coxeroni said:
@chyron8472 said:
As opposed to Emby, where the second post I ever made on their forums was just plain asking about some feature, and it almost immediately got a response from an actual dev who straight up said “we’ll include that in the next update.” It’s night and day.
I am actually really interested how Emby handles things in the future. This dev, Luke, is practically THE only dev you see in their forum and as user base grows he can’t read every thread and incorporate every feature request that some user posts. This only works because of the low number of users. The same feeling I have for their system in general. If you use it more thoroughly you will see its flaws, because also Emby is not bug free. Emby is now sexy because for most of us/you it is new and different. That impression might change.
Oh, believe me I’m already seeing several flaws (or nitpicks).
Images don’t refresh on-the-fly as they do on Plex—You basically have to refresh the screen to get a poster to update.
I have yet to get Emby to access my Calibre eBook library correctly for more than cover art
One can have audiobooks set up in a library of “Music” content, or of “Book” content, but there is a tradeoff. Music Libraries have several views, such as an Album View, Artist View, Genre View… but no Watched Status; meanwhile, Book Libraries have a Watched Status at the Album(Book) level AND Track(Chapter) level but only have a simple Folder View (albeit it allows Poster use). (Plex has no Watched Status for audio files whatsoever, and if you use a Folder View said folders have no posters.)
and other things but those come to me atm.
One thing I’ve noticed Emby does is that, when watching a show or movie, the Logo art (if available) appears in the top left corner in place of just the name in simple text on the Playback screen. Another is video playblack has that double-tap left or right on the screen to go forward or back as happens in Youtube.
Again, these are nitpicks, but I find many differences I notice between the two are devil-in-the-details sorts of things.
I too have spun up a vm with emby. It was nice to see my supporter key from mb3 still got me premier.
