Save 20% on a Lifetime Plex Pass, use code PLEXLIKEAPRO. https://www.plex.tv/en-au/plex-pro-week/
The code dropped the price to $127.99 from $159.99. The code will expire at 11:59PM UTC (10PM AEST) on 17th September 2021.
Edit: Full thanks to u/Trick_Cellist_6731. Original deal found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/pn7hpp/plex_pro_week_…
Plex Pass Features - https://support.plex.tv/articles/201751006-plex-pass-feature…
Hardware transcoding, Skip-Intro and remote playing of plex are the features I think make it worth while if you use plex daily.
bought a lifetime pass for $99.99 in the past deal.
Me too
Yep was very happy to finally get over the lifetime line with that deal.
Been using Plex server for years, don't really know why I'd get this?
I constantly get asked to update the server, not sure why?
It casts fine all my media to the TV and devices. I have bought the app across multiple devices but use the single login.
So why buy this?
Downloads and hardware transcoding are the main reasons.
HDR tone mapping would be a good reason. If you have HDR content, it will look washed out on non HDR displays.
I actually bought it because like you I'd been using it for years and I thought I'd support such an amazing application.
For Synology owners, how does this compare with dsvideo?
Not sure, but my Synology is so old it doesnt support Plex
Plex is heaps better.
Plex leaves Dsvideo for dead.
I am running a DS918+ (4 by 4TB Seagate ironwolfs).
Currently I am run plex as the Synology installed plex (I have plex pass). On the to do list is migrating the NAS from DSM 6 to 7, and then I will switch to running plex under Docker, which will also make it easier to add in some of the many plex helper apps (sonarr, radarr, lidarr etc) that run as lightweight docker containers.
But you can still use arr apps on docker and plex from synology store. Mine is running fine.
You can run all those helper apps in docker containers while still running Plex as a synology package.
Updating from DSM 6 to 7 took me about 30 minutes.
Plex Music (Plexamp) is very good now since they added sonic algorithm.
It scans every song in the library and correlates them into radio/mixes based on the similarities in the sound itself, rather than relying on tags.
It was a retrofit of another Premium feature where it would scan the audio of every episode in your library and put a skip intro button, which after more than a year of using it, it works perfectly and now is available to all users accessing the library.
agreed. Quality app and implementation
I love plexamp
I never used paid version of Plex.
Can anyone please tell me the comparison of Infuse vs Plex for using at internal house? (I have no need for remote access).
Thanks.
Plexamp PLUS
dragokahn 40 min ago
Plex Pass Features - https://support.plex.tv/articles/201751006-plex-pass-feature…
Hardware transcoding, Skip-Intro and remote playing of plex are the features I think make it worth while if you use plex daily.
$99 is the lowest if you can wait for the random promotion email.
I recently paid my yearly membership and they credited most of that into the yearly pass. Brought it down to $79. Done.
Love plex and have used it for years…but just don't see why I would need plex pass. HDR sounds nice but is it worth $120?
Free plex plays all HDR content fine
Nice deal, but will wait till <=$99
In case anyone was wondering, I run a plex server in vultr $6 vps in Sydney with unlimited google cloud storage ($27 I think per month.) And it works a dream with high quality direct streams.
$33 a month is really good. Especially when you get unlimited cloud storage for non plex things. If I had a 4k TV, I think it would probably work too.
Vultr speed tests are about 3gbps/3gbps.
Thanks, I woke up this morning wondering whether frazel runs a plex server in vultr $6 vps in Sydney with unlimited google cloud storage.
I'm running a jellyfin server in Oracle cloud always free VPS with unlimited Google drive from my edu account mounted with rclone. It streams great and most of all it's free.
Nice, what are the resources like for the free vps?
Oracle Cloud Free Tier:
2 AMD based Compute VMs with 1core/2threads CPU and 1 GB memory each.
4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs.
2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total.
Outbound Data Transfer: 10 TB per month.
The arm based VMs are new and I haven't tried them out. But the AMD based VPS is enough for my own use.
@Mibo: Very nice, especially the high local storage and the whopping 10tb bandwidth.
Ill have to see if they have a presence in Australia, where is your located?
that unlimited google drive storage is disappearing next July?
Where does it say that? Is this for enterprise subscriptions or the hack for (is it) business subscriptions with no enforcement of the limit?
I prefer emby / jellyfin. It all runs locally and doesnt rely on plex's servers for login/authentication which I've heard complaints about being unavailable at times. Seems more customisable too. The only feature I see plex having up on these is intro detection (allows you to skip).
As a plex server owner, it was the best decision i ever took to upgrade to lifetime plex pass from last 20% off deal!
Has anyone used a VPN for Argentina and the code to make it $6.757,60 ARS ($93.70 AUD) ?
Try : tightarse
if their picture navigation was quicker, snappy and more similar the Google photos I would pay for it. don't use for a lot of videos these days…
just fyi…. they got rid of photo uploads, and for the life of me, i can't seem to get sync & download to work on android.
I'm just guessing (bit light on information in your reply), but I am guessing you can't sync (i.e. download episodes, movies) to your phone, and a second level of guessing is that your server is attempting to convert your files, even though your phone can play the files natively?
Anyway, lots of guessing on my part, however, you can create a custom.xml profile which tells your server that your device can play (and download) files natively;
https://forums.plex.tv/t/sync-original-quality-still-does-a-…
Once you do this, you should be able to sync and download with no problem. Fingers crossed that all my guessing helps!
hm.. this looks like it might be a fix. I have no idea why it doesn't. It actually works on my old tablet, but not my galaxy
Let me know how you go…This frustrated the bejeezus out of me for years, and then one day I stumbled across that post, and then sync finally worked how it was meant to.
Yeah that was annoying - one of the reasons I would have signed up!
Is there any way to access the Plex server externally, if I'm on Optus Mobile Broadband at home? I can't get around the CGNAT.
I had to request from ISP (Aussie) to move away from the CGnat and give me an actual IP. they were fine with that.
Not an option on Optus MBB. It's CGNAT or death, unfortunately. I suffered through this for 2.5 years (NBN hell, thanks Tony) before moving and getting a public IP.
Same here.
Best bet, just change to an ISP that doesn't use it. Superloop perhaps
Get a domain (e.g. freenome) and use CloudFlare with Argo tunnel. Though this is definitely not noob friendly.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-free-argo-tunnel-for-your-next…
plex pass is awesome
Thats an awesome comment
Managed to get it cheaper ~$108 AUD (399.99 BRL).
By activating 1 Month Free Plex Pass @ Plex (New & Existing Members) with coupon: AD-ONEMONTH
Cancelling the free trial.
On the "Update subscription" page, purchasing lifetime with PayPal, with region set to Brazil, with coupon code: PLEXLIKEAPRO
Prior to this, purchasing on the main purchase page did not work with the different region, returning error: "Selected country (BR) does not match PayPal country (AU)."
YMMV.
Worked, thanks!
Ended up being $109.64 AUD for me. PayPal did their own exchange rate, didn't seem to have an option to charge the foreign currency directly to my card, which would've been cheaper with Up Bank's rate. But still cheaper than $127.99 overall :)
(Perhaps using Plex's card payment option instead of PayPal would've allowed the foreign currency to be charged directly?)
Confirming this method works. Just got Lifetime Plex for 399.99BRL = $104 AUD
Thanks Aidanb
Yep that worked for me, once you put the discount code it and go next to pay it asks you what country your in, choose brazil and pay via paypal.
How do I get to this "Update Subscription" Page?
Navigate to: "https://www.plex.tv/plex-pass/purchase/"
It'll say "We like you too much to take your hard-earned money twice. User XXXXX already has a Plex Pass subscription."
Then click "Upgrade Subscription" (or just click here: https://plex.tv/subscription )
"Unable to process your current subscription for upgrading."
Must have been patched.
Thanks for the tip. An even better option – do the above, but choose pay via credit card and choose Argentina. Got Plex Pass for AUD 94.63 (ARS 6,757.60) that way. The "Update subscription" page similarly bypasses the credit card country check.
Cheers this worked!
Dropping this historical FOMO before price increase here
Monthly Plex Pass subscriptions will increase from $3.99 to $4.99 per month.
Annual Plex Pass subscriptions will increase from $29.99 to $39.99 per year.
Lifetime Plex Passes will increase from $74.99 to $149.99.
From 2014.
https://www.plex.tv/en-au/blog/upcoming-price-increase-new-p…
Nice! I looked up my subscription…Paid $74.99USD on 25/09/14. Money well spent.
Price increased on 29/09 according to the blog.
@lbft: This worked about 12 months ago when this deal last came up. Unsure if they've changed anything since then.