
I’m not interested in Plex’s incredibly tiny movie catalog (in my region) or its premium membership offerings. The parts of Plex I used have remained virtually unchanged for almost a decade.

I’m sure that getting paid is a better business model for Plex. I just wanted a media server to be the hub for my own media collection. My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead. Recently, I opened up Plex and couldn’t find my own content. It keeps insisting I sign up and login through their web portal instead of using the front end for my local Plex server. It’s been great, but Plex has steadily changed in an unwanted direction. It can also transcode and stream media in multiple multimedia codecs to ensure compatibility with all types of devices and screen sizes. Plex can neatly organize media, fetch metadata and movie posters, and keeps track of what and how far you’ve watched your media files. It’s been my primary way to catalog and watch my movie and TV show collection. I’ve used the Plex Media Server for over a decade.
