Tim BrayMar 21, 2025

I have my music & movies on a Mac Mini at home and run the Plex server on it (for free) and while driving or traveling I use PlexAmp on my phone to listen to my music (for free) - Plex takes care of the UPNP and so on to make this work. Now, Plex is asking for money for this service: https://www.plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates/

I think… this seems reasonable? I could run https://jellyfin.org and do it myself I guess, but might be inclined to pay a bit to avoid the extra work…

Important 2025 Plex Updates

Update 4/30/25Since publishing this post we have changed how remote streaming works for personal media libraries, and it is no...

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Show threadNathan Lorenz
@timbray Slightly unrelated question. Do you have to set your MacMini to never sleep with your Plex Sever to get this to work properly? I was running Plex on my ancient NAS, but they now no longer support upgrading my Plex version.
Mar 21, 2025 at 6:32pmWeb
Show threadTim BrayMar 21, 2025
@nathan Yep, the Mini is in never-sleep mode. However, when it restarts (power failure, software update) I do have to sign into the account that owns the Plex server to get it running.