Plex started out great for us Boxee users left in the cold, but the writing was on the wall when they started offering rentals. Product development has hit a wall in the last two years. While its UI isn't as intricate, Infuse does a fantastic job of transcoding higher bitrate 1080 content over LAN and WAN, where Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby just stutter. The Plex AppleTV app hasn't received material updates in what seems like years - they haven't even rolled out the Liquid Glass effect like Infuse has.

I would abandon Plex completely, but I still haven't found a capable app to remotely stream the 2.5TB of music on my Synology. Their recent price hike a few months ago converted me from a $5/mo Plex Pass customer to a $120 lifetime customer. I sense a new product tier in the works that us lifetime customers won't have access to without shelling out more.

You might consider setting up Navidrome. It’s working well for me, running NixOS on an N150 minipc along with Tailscale.

Lots of clients are available to connect with it (it also has a functional web UI). It does not touch your music files, keeping things like star ratings in its database.

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

# Clients

https://www.navidrome.org/apps/

> I would abandon Plex completely, but I still haven't found a capable app to remotely stream the 2.5TB of music on my Synology.

I would look at Navidrome. Completely focused on music, and for that application much better than either plex or jellyfin.

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

> I would abandon Plex completely, but I still haven't found a capable app to remotely stream the 2.5TB of music on my Synology.

If you use iOS, I'm beta-testing an iOS 26+ Plexamp alternative with ~500 Plex users which supports all media servers (Plex, Navidrome, Jellyfin, OpenSubsonic, etc.). It's not feature-complete, but is daily-driver worthy for common use cases. You can find more info and a TestFlight link here if that sounds interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/plexamp/comments/1qel35s/new_invite...

I use jellyfin server on my NAS with wireguard + symfonium (android client) on my phone for streaming, but I mostly stream out of the house on my phone.