Plex Raises $40M

https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/upstart-media-server-streamer-app-plex-raises-40-million-to-expand-compete-with-tech-giants.html

by Sytten • 2 years ago

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PaulHoule• 2 years ago

Note that packing in ads for a lot of off-brand streaming services is why I quit Plex and switched to the otherwise inferior Jellyfin. Way to go!

sokoloff2• 2 years ago

As a long time, happy, paid user of Plex, this makes me worry that they're going to continue to make it a worse experience...

pjerem• 2 years ago

Try Jellyfin. It’s the same thing Plex once was but fully open source.

sokoloff2• 2 years ago

I have (and have a Jellyfin server running on the network). IMO, it's nowhere near as polished as the 2017 version of Plex. Cover art and metadata matching is terrible. Plex seems to handle slightly "off" filenames and folder names far better.

Every so often I update jellyfin and try again, only to find it's still a worse experience than Plex.

Larrikin• 2 years ago

It's not as good as Plex. I hope one day it will be, it continues to improve, but it's a worse experience. Once they have proper intro skipping, I'll check it out again to see if they have fixed their other issues.

DonnyV• 2 years ago

Can they use some of that money to actually fix there horrible syncing with music on Android? Its been years now since it worked right.

pavel_lishin3• 2 years ago

Oof, I keep thinking of switching off Youtube Music in favor of Plex :/

endisneigh4• 2 years ago

Good. Nice to see it becoming better funded, but I hope the growth doesn’t bite it in the butt.

I use Plex and turned off all of the sponsored stuff. It’s easy. Jellyfin is neat too but I find Plex to be superior, albeit not open source. Ymmv

I do always wonder why folks complain about Plex ads. It’s pretty trivial to remove all of them.

eightysixfour2• 2 years ago

Because we paid for lifetime licenses before the enshittification started.

endisneigh4• 2 years ago

I’m confused - is the experience different if you pay now?

2OEH8eoCRo0• 2 years ago

How would you bring media ownership to the masses? A hardware "hub" you can put a disc in and it rips it and organizes it and allows your family to stream it?

They could add a cloud based subscription for storage if you don't want their hub. The tech is all out there, someone just needs to do it in an Apple-like dead-simple manner.

psyclobe• 2 years ago

I’ve been buying Blu-ray’s.. so tired of plex messing up the simplest of encoded videos.

Was good while it lasted.

cocacola1• 2 years ago

I hope they toss a few million to make sure that jumping forward and backward work properly. I can fast forward or backward once and then if I try again, it hangs. That’s pretty much my biggest Plex woe. Unless someone has a solution to that?

adamomada• 2 years ago

I use plex daily on fire tv and have not had any issues with seeking forward or backward. I use the “skip back 10 seconds” with the left button all the time when I miss some dialogue.

When speaking of Plex you have to mention the client, it runs on almost everything but some clients work better than others.

Plex Raises $40M

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