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Plex

easy

Polished media server with wide device support and optional cloud features.

2 GB RAM Active proprietary iOS & Android
Source Docs Website

Replaces

Netflix

Pros

  • Best-in-class client apps
  • Wide device support
  • Polished UI
  • Hardware transcoding

Cons

  • Not fully open source
  • Plex Pass required for some features
  • Phone-home requirement
  • Ad-supported free tier pushed

Tags

mediastreamingmoviestvtranscoding

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Sonarr

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Radarr

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