Picking a tool is a very personal decision, and it depends on one's values and one's use.
This was using the local web server instance to manage permissions for users, so maybe every time my distro undated the web server software or something. Either way, for my use case it didn't work out of the box. JellyFun did and does. Every tool decision is personal.
Your experience doesn't nullify mine.
And that's fine. If you're not bothered by what others are, cool beans. Good for you.
I worry I over-index on my desire for control but it's just so so nice to have my tools work every day and never break, and never change under me and just always do the thing they are supposed to do.
Sorry cloud providers, but you all burnt (nuked) your bridges and I have zero interest in seeing them rebuilt. I’m more than happy on my own little island!
Tinfoil hatted me would wonder if this might be why they are so desperate to try and ensure local LLM’s never become a thing…
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.
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
I would look at Navidrome. Completely focused on music, and for that application much better than either plex or jellyfin.
If you use iOS, I'm beta-testing a native Plexamp alternative with ~500 Plex users. Not feature-complete, but daily-driver worthy for listed capabilities. Info and TestFlight link: https://www.reddit.com/r/plexamp/comments/1qel35s/new_invite...
So, now I need to try to install the older Plex app on my phone with Sideloadly, because Plex is more interested in streaming shit to me and trying to be Netflix or Paramount+ than it is in doing the the thing it always did best and that no one else was doing: allowing me to stream things to my own devices from my own storage.
It gets frustrating. At some point, no matter how bad Jellyfin is, it will be better than Plex because Plex is trying to become worse than anything else. I guess I got my Lifetime Pass long enough ago ($75) that I've gotten my money's worth out of it, but goddamn.
900 lbs is 400~ kilograms, but according to the Vizio spec page, the speaker is:
Sound bar Weight w/ Stand: 14 Lbs. Packaging Weight: 15.5 Lbs.
Because they did it wrong. Me looking it up and finding out that they did it wrong doesn't mean I'm wrong.
>you would’ve seen that Plex has a separate, dedicated app for l
I don't want 10,000 fucking icon on my phone screens, having to swipe through 5 of them to find anything. Why do I want this split into two apps? That serves them. Not me. That makes it easier for them to try to become Spotify in one place while trying to be Disney+ in another. Fuck that shit. They're breaking something that wasn't broken.
No one everything's being enshittified. It's because I have to share a planet with losers who not only tolerate it, but cheer it on like stooges.
Lol you’re using your phone like it’s 2019
I wonder what exactly am I missing.
No native app for LG TV, but I have an Android TV box anyway.
I can't say how well it works on Apple devices and other TV brands.
One example I can point to is Stargate SG-1. Episode 1 is a two parter and depending on who you ask it's either Episode 1 and 2 or Episode 1 which causes all subsequent episode numbers to be thrown off by 1 depending on how you count.
This confusion is further complicated by the release order on DVD/Bluray, the order of airing, and the fact that all of these things can be different in different regions of the world.
And that's just one show.
I started but didn't finish a Rygel + local-search (nee Tracker) plugin to try to finally get that. I wish the upnp media services were better. I keep telling myself I'll build a nice client/controller... Some day.
Maybe the way I organized my library intuitively sort of matched Jellyfin's expectations?
I don't buy any (non gaming) software for any other purposes because most of the time the pricing model, licensing model, or lack of platform support is not right for me.
I don't want SaaS for anything because things constantly change (almost always for the worse) from under me. I don't want to have to pay a subscription to play my music, watch my videos, or take my notes.
You do know target adds the cost for their web presence to their cost centre, and you as customer pays for it right?
Or maybe a better way to express my thought: one can work in a paying software job and still dislike "paying for software" where that means a subscription to play local media files.
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... There is an unarticulated assumption held by many people that the natural state of any created thing is expensive. Technology is believed to be born dear and costly, and it is only through relentless hard work that things can be made cheap. Indeed, according to this perspective, everything is naturally expensive, and would remain so, but for genius and sweat. This natural level of expense and scarcity can only be lowered by applying constant energy, favorable legislation, and technological vigilance, otherwise the price of a good may spring back up to its natural elevated level. God forbid a disaster or calamity collapses the system and allows the prices of everything to revert to their true unattainable price.