What I'm requesting is the ability for multiple clients with different logins to be able to sync to the same server.
That's fine. And a popular request. But you did not mention that in your feature request. Right now multiple plexpass accounts gain you no(?) benefits so it's important to be clear for anyone thinking about just buying another one (without waiting for your proposed offer) that they won't gain anything.
Your request reads like it you want a discount not a change of features and i wanted to be sure you and others were aware that a simple discount wouldn't suffice.
With the having there own status's, on deck and the like. They do not need a plexpass for this they just need a standard account. The user own status's, on deck and the like, is just dependant on the server.
As for syncing for offline use, the plex team has already posted about this multiple times. Plex team feels this is wrong ( I know you can just give them the file). If offline sync was enabled for anyone connected to your server (plexpass or not), could be used by them to download and distribute your content quite easily.
Now that being said, if you could have child accounts in my plex that would be awesome.
Yes for me too. I don't share with users outside of my house. I need sync and channel support for multiple users in my family. I am a lifetime as well.
I don't share outside my home either, besides the potential legal implications, I'm hessitant to do this because of the potential server load. Having 2 to 3 transcoding jobs might be too much for my trusted machine. So outside people having machines with 16 cores, I would expect most people to be selfish and share little of the Plex goodness, except for the good word.
I'm just adding my tuppence worth here. Like so many of you I want the ability to let others in my household use the shared server under their own login. Can we not have a family plex pass?? Even the secondary users are limited to the home subnet. Is that not a possibility??
Any other thoughts on how this could be implemented?
I love plex but if I have to buy 5 plexpass's for my household my love is going to be somewhat diluted!
thanks
Lindsay
P.S. I have posted this comment on another thread in the hope that it reaches a maximum audience and creates some form of critical mass!!!
That's fine. And a popular request. But you did not mention that in your feature request. Right now multiple plexpass accounts gain you no(?) benefits so it's important to be clear for anyone thinking about just buying another one (without waiting for your proposed offer) that they won't gain anything.
Your request reads like it you want a discount not a change of features and i wanted to be sure you and others were aware that a simple discount wouldn't suffice.
Hope you can understand my POV.
You're absolutely right and apologies if I wasn't clear. I was putting some marketing spin on it by putting the "What's in it for you (Plex)" front and center and not concisely explaining the "Whats in it for me" later on.
For me it was always "How do I get Plex to do this..."
So I came up with the rationale:
It would be a way for Plex to sell more Lifetime Passes plus upsell to their existing Lifetime Pass Members. Often the trick isn't to get more people on board but how to get additional contributions from those existing subscribers. It would be as if you temporarily boosted your revenue stream from people that you know aren't squeamish about spending and people already committed to the cause.
With the having there own status's, on deck and the like. They do not need a plexpass for this they just need a standard account. The user own status's, on deck and the like, is just dependant on the server.
As for syncing for offline use, the plex team has already posted about this multiple times. Plex team feels this is wrong ( I know you can just give them the file). If offline sync was enabled for anyone connected to your server (plexpass or not), could be used by them to download and distribute your content quite easily.
Now that being said, if you could have child accounts in my plex that would be awesome.
Please elaborate on how/why you believe offline sync is different from sharing your server with someone? How is sync more wrong or how is streaming less wrong?
The reason I ask is that the feature to be able to share your server with people is already available; how is sync different from streaming?
You say that people could distribute/download from the synced device "quite easily"- please elaborate on how easy it is to hack into Plex for ios and extract the video files and compare and contrast how easy/difficult it is to do so with the native ios video app... or Android or Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8.
To some extent sharing is sharing. Whether you stream it to one or multiple people online or whether you sync it offline with your family on your local network. We're not talking about shades of grey. In many ways I feel that the sharing feature is the weak link in your argumentation. Plex local sync is tantamount to iTunes sync. And I can do that with the media I rip and encode into iTunes - without limitations of number of devices. With the same media I rip and encode into Plex I can only sync with the one device. Huh...
I understand and appreciate that PlexSync is beta and I've paid for that privilege - I am suggesting a feature and highlighting the potential upside it may have for Plex's revenue stream. I also am pointing out that there are flaws with the argument that it is "Wrong" to allow for additional devices to Sync up with the server from the local network.
I'm just adding my tuppence worth here. Like so many of you I want the ability to let others in my household use the shared server under their own login. Can we not have a family plex pass?? Even the secondary users are limited to the home subnet. Is that not a possibility??
Any other thoughts on how this could be implemented?
I love plex but if I have to buy 5 plexpass's for my household my love is going to be somewhat diluted!
thanks
Lindsay
P.S. I have posted this comment on another thread in the hope that it reaches a maximum audience and creates some form of critical mass!!!
I hoped you "liked" this topic and vote it up as well!
I am reading this thread and not completely understanding where Plex lies with their argument of being able to sync with one account. How is that different than giving my account information to multiple people so they can sync to multiple devices? If I understand it correctly, and I hope I'm not, I see that Plex is trying to somehow be a good guy by limiting the number of accounts that can sync to a server while creating software that allows people to re-distribute copyrighted material.
Ok, so I guess you can argue that it is ok to distrubute this material within my own family which is why the limitation on the single account to sync. Fine, I get that, I'll even concede and say that it is on the right side of a very faint line.
So lets add another limitation to this to limit the ability to only sync with one "family" account that has 5 (arbitrary number) child accounts. Each with their separate watch list but still inherit the features of the master\family account, such as syncing, chromecast support, etc.
I don't share my account with anyone outside my family. I want any of my family members to be able to stream to a chromecast while keeping their own watchlist updated. However you feel is the best way to do this then I am game.
