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Lifetime Plex Pass

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PLEX has Lifetime Plex Pass on sale for $95.99 when you apply promo code ITSPROTIME during checkout.

Thanks to Deal Editor Discombobulated for finding this deal.

Deal Instructions:
  1. Visit the Offer Page
  2. Login / Sign-up for a account
  3. Select the Lifetime Option
  4. Apply promo code ITSPROTIME
  5. Enter your information and complete checkout, your total will be $95.99.
Plex Pass Features:
  • Sync your movies, shows, music, and photos to your mobile devices for offline enjoyment wherever you go.
  • Unlock the power to set extra sharing restrictions and allow access to select premium features for shared users.
  • Track your server stats with our desktop Dashboard or on the go using Plex Dash.
  • Set max upload bandwidth and per-stream caps to ensure the best streaming experience.
  • Use the dedicated video decoder and encoder hardware support in your computer/device to convert videos and stream HD or 4K video more smoothly to more devices at once.

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Promo code valid Now through 23:59 UTC on Friday, September 22, 2023. Lifetime subscriptions only.
    • Please read the Forum Thread for more deal discussion.

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PLEX has Lifetime Plex Pass on sale for $95.99 when you apply promo code ITSPROTIME during checkout.

Thanks to Deal Editor Discombobulated for finding this deal.

Deal Instructions:
  1. Visit the Offer Page
  2. Login / Sign-up for a account
  3. Select the Lifetime Option
  4. Apply promo code ITSPROTIME
  5. Enter your information and complete checkout, your total will be $95.99.
Plex Pass Features:
  • Sync your movies, shows, music, and photos to your mobile devices for offline enjoyment wherever you go.
  • Unlock the power to set extra sharing restrictions and allow access to select premium features for shared users.
  • Track your server stats with our desktop Dashboard or on the go using Plex Dash.
  • Set max upload bandwidth and per-stream caps to ensure the best streaming experience.
  • Use the dedicated video decoder and encoder hardware support in your computer/device to convert videos and stream HD or 4K video more smoothly to more devices at once.

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Promo code valid Now through 23:59 UTC on Friday, September 22, 2023. Lifetime subscriptions only.
    • Please read the Forum Thread for more deal discussion.

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got129
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Beware if you host your "content" on dedicated servers. They started implementing IP blocking, so if your hosting your stuff on Hetzner, or services with Hetzner IPs they will start blocking access. Not sure how long before it moves to other providers.
BrianK7523
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Are you trying to figure out what Plex is or what the Plex Pass is?

Plex has two pieces. One piece is the server. You would install a program called Plex Media Server on your computer. Then you tell Plex the location of all your movies and media you own. It scans everything and organizes it.

Then you go to your smart tv devices (fire tv, android box, roku, etc) You can install the Plex CLIENT on these and watch the movies from your Plex your server.

Plex is free if that is how you use it.

The Plex PASS is just some additional features for Plex. It lets you watch movies on your phone/mobile devices. You can download movies from your server. It allows "hardware transcoding". Skip intro/skip credits, etc.
CJ00TA
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I'll be the first.

Plex lost their way long ago. I want (and bought) to play local media, not have them push their stream crap on me.

Long time Emby user. Love it. UI isn't as polished as Plex but it's worth the effort to use because of my hate for plex streaming.

Also JellyFin.

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Sep 20, 2023
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BuyMoreChuck
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Quote from ydgmms :
There are a few different ways

1) For each item, you can select the "pencil" icon to Edit the item manually.
2) For each item, you can select the "..." and hit "Fix Match"
3) For a library, you can tell it to use Agent : "Personal Medial"(or something like that) instead of IMDB/INternet matching. It will pick a random screen shot from the video to show. But in the folder, you used to be able to put a "folder.jpg" and it would use that in the Library view. https://support.plex.tv/articles/...ts-movies/
Thank you so much. A number of folks provided excellent suggestions. So far I have been digitizing some HI8 movies and I moved them to Plex, which indexed them and I shared them to two people for testing. Now I need to figure things out since I now have a number of videos to share and can actually set this up. I also have a number of folders that have pictures in it that I want to share with the family. So I am maybe 4-8 hours new on this plex thing. So thank you for the advice.

I originally purchased it to replace Window's Media Center with my Silicon Dust tuners. We just had our house tented for termites so I had to take the antenna down, so I was not able to test yet.

Thanks again to everyone who responded and provided so many suggestions and links.
Sep 20, 2023
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BuyMoreChuck
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from RelaxedMice9954 :
I suggest you update the naming convention of your files. And go to the Plex faq for more insight.
Thanks for the advice. I saw that they were using the naming convention and I change some for testing but not all. I will look more into it.
Sep 20, 2023
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BuyMoreChuck
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from theimage13 :
Create a "home movies" library, not a "movies" library, for those files. Then choose your own artwork or it'll just use a thumbnail from the video by default.
Thanks for the recommendation. I will look on the web for setting up a home movies library. Thanks for the response.
Sep 20, 2023
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BuyMoreChuck
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from golfjoker :
Change from Movie library to Video library.
Thank you for the quick response. I have seen two people recommend changing from Movie to a Home/Video library. Looks like this might be a winner along with the comments on how to change the art work.

Thank you so much.
Sep 20, 2023
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BuyMoreChuck
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from JBS9510 :
You can click on the movie in the Web app and edit its attributes, including thumbnail
Thank you, I will definitely give this a try.
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BuyMoreChuck
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from MonsterWith21Faces :
Click the ... button in the bottom right corner of the cover image on Plex. Then choose "Unmatch" and it will remove the commercial movie data and you can add your own.
Perfect, thanks.
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FantasticGame434
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from CJ00TA :
I'll be the first.

Plex lost their way long ago. I want (and bought) to play local media, not have them push their stream crap on me.

Long time Emby user. Love it. UI isn't as polished as Plex but it's worth the effort to use because of my hate for plex streaming.

Also JellyFin.
You can disable the annoying plex streaming service in the Settings actually.
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Sep 20, 2023
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kruuth
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from BuyMoreChuck :
Plex newbie... I put some personal movies, converted from HI8 tapes, and added them to Plex (the only items I currently have on Plex lifetime). But for some reason Plex has assigned an image from the web as the movie cover. How do I get rid of it or replace it with something else. It just looks funny when you have a movie of kids and it is showing an inappropriate cover from a commercial movie. Would like to delete the covers on those movies before sharing with my family.

Suggestions?
This isn't the place for this, but you can go into the Plex server page select the video and click the pencil icon to change the picture
Sep 20, 2023
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Azrael_the_Cat
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from mrdizle :
Lifelong Plex user but rethinking after seeing how they parse your data and block accordingly. Thinking about open source Jellyfin.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/plex-b...st-piracy/
It seems you didn't read the article or PLEX privacy details

Plex does not collect or store information about your content except for in a few innocuous cases.

They don't "parse and block" accordingly. Rather, they receive complaints and act accordingly.
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JohnPaul2
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from ScoobyDoo27 :
There is no apple tv jellyfin app. There is swiftfin but it has a lot of issues
Yes, you're right but 90% of the people here are for Plex, so there's no need to dive deep into the nuance of FOSS and self hosting. Moreso to get the 10% considering alternatives to begin their research outside of SD.

For tinkerers Jellyfin works fine but I would not subject my parents or family outside my home to it. Plex has better stability, performance, and UI.
Sep 20, 2023
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kruuth
Sep 20, 2023
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I'm curious, if I've got a local media server to stream my own media, what are the advantages of the Plex pass? Free access to their streams? I'm not really planning on streaming from the server to a mobile device
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mrdizle
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from Azrael_the_Cat :
It seems you didn't read the article or PLEX privacy details

Plex does not collect or store information about your content except for in a few innocuous cases.

They don't "parse and block" accordingly. Rather, they receive complaints and act accordingly.
Sure they don't LOL.
Why allow all data to phone home to their offices then ?
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Quote from CJ00TA :
Plex lost their way long ago. I want (and bought) to play local media, not have them push their stream crap on me.
Yeah, just turn it off in the settings. Sounds like you didn't take 2 minutes to figure out the software.

Quote from got129 :
Beware if you host your "content" on dedicated servers. They started implementing IP blocking, so if your hosting your stuff on Hetzner, or services with Hetzner IPs they will start blocking access. Not sure how long before it moves to other providers.
They are blocking because of multiple complaints filed about copyrighted content being shared. They don't have much of a choice. As usual a couple bad apples ruin the batch.

Quote from mrdizle :
Lifelong Plex user but rethinking after seeing how they parse your data and block accordingly. Thinking about open source Jellyfin.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/plex-b...st-piracy/
You posted about issue that happened like 80+ versions ago. Also Open sources does not automatically equal better, especially in this case.


Been a lifetime pass member for years. Anyone recommending JellyFin or Emby or anything else either didn't take the couple minutes to figure out Plex or likes running a not-as-good looking app that's randomly buggy.

We use Plex for Live TV (HDHomeRun), movie library, pictures, music, bit of everything all on either a FireTV Cube 3rd gen or a Apple TV 4k 2nd gen. Runs great on both although we use the FireTV more since it does true Dolby Atmos passthrough directly from Plex (Apple TV does not). We have also used the download function on multiple occasions and never had a issue with it. Granted we correctly setup Plex with the local LAN IP addresses so it knows when our phones and tablets are on our home network so the download is quick.

From this thread it appears most peoples issues with Plex are not knowing how to use it or change settings. I tried JellyFin. I tried Kodi. I tried Emby. None have as clean of a UI, none are as easy to setup, and none work day in and out without fiddling with stuff like Plex does. Other then doing updates when it says to I don't have to change anything and it just works.
Last edited by VSeven September 20, 2023 at 06:00 AM.
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Knightshade
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Quote from VSeven :
Yeah, just turn it off in the settings. Sounds like you didn't take 2 minutes to figure out the software..

Not only that, but if they only as they claim bought it for local media- why buy it at all? I've been using the free version for over a decade now for that purpose and it works perfectly fine, don't even need a plex account at all.
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DevanteWeary
Sep 20, 2023
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Quote from timmyobama :
Nah, Plex likes using the slur "Latinx" in its marketing emails. Screw Em.
I bet you have Netflix huh?
With "Dear White People" and "Cuties".
Or Amazon with their constant barrage of whatever is trendy that month like black history month movies or "Pride" movie collection or whatever.

Basically nearly ever company panders my guy.

Not saying it's ok, just saying you'd have to live off the land in the woods to get away from it.
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