Specifically I'm wondering about the TV frontend UI. Presumably most people are going to be using an android tv box like fire tv or chromecast? Something else?...
Do you run a Plex server at home? What do you think of this plan?
I am planning on collecting and digitizing DVDs to put on my own Plex server. I will put the files on a large capacity drive. Since a drive can fail I will also create a backup and plan on using Arq with a services like Wasabi or AWS Glacier. It will come down to what it costs. (Note: I'd only have to restore data if there is a catastrophic loss locally.)
It appears AWS beats out Wasabi by about $2/mo for 1TB of storage at $4 to Wasabi at $6.
I actually have the "share my entire viewing history with friends" thing enabled in #plex. It's only fair. I could already spy on what everyone else watched on my server. They might as well be able to see what I watch.
And the only Plex "friends" I have are the tiny handful of family & friends with access to my server.
People used Trakt for a reason. Isn't this basically just that? Plus the boneheaded opt-out decision that will probably sink them.
#Plex has sooo many bugs. I tried to build a smart playlist that lists movies not watched in 5 years. It doesn't just match the LAST watched date like it's supposed to, it matches ANY watched date. And there's no hope of it getting fixed because, like Apple, "Plex doesn't fix bugs!"
I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software) and have been ingesting TV shows, games, and movies primarily from an xbox using various paid streaming apps for like 15 years. As streaming costs go up I’ve wanted to set up a media server compatible with playing stuff from the xbox and have had some friends suggest Plex so...
Sheesh…took me way too long to swap out my 5 TB drive for the new 10 TB drive on my #PLEX server, and get everything to show up in the library and play from the new drive.
I wish I’d known about gnome-drives before I started, what I SHOULD have done was plug in the new drive, go into gnome-drives and disable the automount for the old drive, set the new drive to automount to the same location, and reboot.
Last year, I tried out #jellyfin, and found it great, but it missed one (for me) must-have feature; HDR support in the LG app. This made me stick with #plex.
But as Plex has gotten more enshittified, yesterday I decided to give Jellyfin another try. Happy to say that I can now watch HDR videos on my LG TV.
For the rest, I'm quite impressed with it. The only thing missing is a "skip intro" feature.
Uninstalling #Jellyfin for the final time. Tried my best to like it, alongside #Plex, but it's just so horrible-looking, dysfunctional with absolutely no incentive for me to switch. The client apps for it look abysmal by comparison with Plex (and no, I'm not even using Plex Pass, just the free version) The AppleTV app in particular is janky as hell, the poster icons mode for shows literally overlap the titles of each show like the CSS is broken or something. Plex client is easy to install and set up, good looking and simply works.
Far as I'm concerned, IF and when that happens I'll reconsider. For right now it's way more polished than JF and simply works better for this household and its five TVs.
MusicBrainz Picard is really good, open source and cross-platform. If your music folder is a chaotic mess of unsorted, untagged files, give it a try, it works like magic.
Ich mag es ja wirklich sehr gern, diese langen Audio-Tracks von #YouTube zu befreien, als #MP3 Files auf meinem #Plex Server abzulegen, deren #ID3 Tags zu bearbeiten und dann in Plex Playlisten davon zu erstellen, die ich mit meinem #Sonos System in der ganzen Wohnung hoeren kann. 🤓
I think the news about #Disney essentially "reinventing" cable channels again into their streaming service, #DisneyPlus is pretty hilarious, though I'm not exactly surprised by that since I too honestly have been wanting such a feature on #Plex or #Jellyfin for really long time.
The idea is, you could still watch things on demand, unlike cable channels of old, but you could also just tune in to a channel and be "served" different things to watch by episode, or by movie, based on what is available. That'd be perfect when you just want to leave the TV on and have it play random stuffs all day.
I never expected to be willing to pay for a #music player and yet here we are.
#Symfonium is extremely beautiful, customizable and powerful.
I personally use it with #Jellyfin, although multiple other sources are supported (such as #Plex and #Subsonic)
I really don't mind it not being #FOSS as long as it respects my #privacy and #choices.
What does your TV/Movie streaming setup look like?
Specifically I'm wondering about the TV frontend UI. Presumably most people are going to be using an android tv box like fire tv or chromecast? Something else?...
Ideas for setting up a media server compatible with xbox viewing?
I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software) and have been ingesting TV shows, games, and movies primarily from an xbox using various paid streaming apps for like 15 years. As streaming costs go up I’ve wanted to set up a media server compatible with playing stuff from the xbox and have had some friends suggest Plex so...
What do you call your home media server? Mediacenter? Hub of media?
Looking for creative ideas, and feeling xkcd.com/910 strongly here