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.
This big of a foot gun can only be because of tremendous external pressure. Knowing that pressure exists, and can drive terrible strategic moves like this, is the real reason to migrate to #jellyfin.
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.
If you're like me and have a large PLEX library of... stuff... but also suffer frequently from analysis paralysis in deciding what to watch, OR you long for the feel of watching old school classic tv on a 30/60 schedule, this might be a fun FREE tool for you to play around with.
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 compared the screen reader #accessibility of #Emby, #Jellyfin, and #Plex, and sadly Plex is way ahead of both Jellyfin and Emby. Not surprising that both are below average because Emby is really just a fork of Jellyfin, but regardless, I guess I'll be sticking with Plex for the foreseeable future.
Am I weird that I want to put together a #FOSDEM2024 “TV Show” on my Plex server, then organize the rooms into “seasons” to catch up on interesting ones I missed? 😅
Random observation with my #Plex media server. I have it installed via their official Debian repository. Plex is only ever executed as a systemd service. At no point, that I'm aware of, does the user "plex" ever sign in interactively for any reason.
Yet installing #PlexMediaServer on Linux does indeed give it a default shell in /etc/passwd , and you can log into that account interactively with bash. I wonder if it would continue to work properly if I changed that to nologin ...
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.
Remote Access always shows "Not available outside your network" (well it initially shows "available" but soon switches to "not available") yet I can pretty reliably access music using Plex Amp over the internet.
#Jellyfin ist ne coole Sache und ich mag das Projekt.
Trotzdem hat es so seine Macken. Und die sind nicht ohne: Beispielsweise fängt die offizielle App beim Musikplayback an, zu stottern. Nämlich dann, wenn sie nicht mehr im Hintergrund läuft.
Das Problem ist bekannt und liegt wohl daran, dass die App in Grunde nur ein Webbrowser ist, der dann von Android schlafen gelegt wird.
Aber trotzdem. Das ist doch eine absolut grundlegende Funktion. Dass das so schlecht funktioniert, frustriert.
Und natürlich kann man den Entwicklern nicht wirklich einen Vorwurf machen. Denn die machen das in ihrer Freizeit.
Jetzt überlege ich aber ernsthaft, nicht auf Plex zu wechseln, der Firma 100 € in den Rachen zu werfen und dann etwas zu haben, das hoffentlich besser funktioniert.
Ist das denn so? Dass #Plex besser funktioniert als #Jellyfin? Hat da jemand den direkten Vergleich?
So #Plex has a "sonic adventure" feature that lets you put in two or more songs then it fills in a playlist which selects tracks of sonically similar values leading from song to song until you reach the target using tracks from your collection.
Here is a playlist it generated going from Phoenix by The Tear Garden to Lisztomania by Phoenix.
I would not have created this playlist on my own.
Also it is fun to see #fedi artists pop up in playlists based on sonic thumbprint.
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