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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Heads up! Plex media server with the Plex clients on all your devices is such a smooth experience. Highly recommended. And their “Watch together” feature is so nice for people that prefer to stay in bed and spend the winter binge watching next to a warm body.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Use Jellyfin. Stop relying on corps' services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Jellyfin is majorly based. I use it with Syncthing for all my media except games

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

There's a Jellyfin plug-in for Kodi and it's pretty awesome

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just started my switch last weekend! Jellyfin is amazing so far. Just need to figure out how to export all the Plex metadata and posters to .nfo files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are surely tools to help, that has to be a common problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’ve been searching all over and haven’t found anything yet. The only answer seems to be to directly open up the Plex database in sqllite and navigate the schema myself and figure out how to export the specific tables and fields I want in some usable format. Once I have that, there are tools to generate .nfo files. 

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would if it had most of the features that Plex does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It doesn't work on Samsung TVs, I tried

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you browse web on your tv? That would work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I was curious and tried that on my Samsung TV from 2016, it loads a grey background and does nothing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe, I put it into dev mode to install the app, but it seems that it's not functional in the current version

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I meant browse to the webpage like you would on a computer. Is there not a browser available? I've only got dumb tvs, so sorry I can't be of more help.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're inputs broken? Who the fuck cares about TV OS support?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who the fuck cares about TV OS support?

Me with my limited budget

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I spent 30 dollars on an orange pi zero 2 and installed android TV on it.

Can you afford 30 dollars? The privacy alone is worth the cost. Those samsung TVs are spyware central.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry I can't justify that cost

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

I dont believe you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok.

So it has a dedicated music app?
It has music filtering?
Good 4k/x265 performance?
Has a third party (or built in) utility that shows me streaming usage?
Allows me to limit remote users to streaming from a single IP address at a time?
Let’s me watch something together with another remote user?
Has an app for most any device (like Plex or Emby) that does NOT require sideloading?
Has built in native DVR steaming/recording support?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Low effort response:

Dunno Dunno I think so Some data, yes Yes Yes but it's jank Yes I believe so

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

So it doesn’t.

So you lied.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

And they recently added a feature where they tell your friends on the platform what kind of porn you've been watching ✌🏾 I think I'll stick to Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Heads up! Plex is garbage and enshitefying their own services to make more money.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Heads up! Jellyfin is a great alternative!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is working well for my purposes, but I suppose I may have recommended something without knowing this part of the story.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Don't feel bad. Plex is working wonders for me. Yea, there are things that annoy me about it, like the volume issues. But all in all, it passes the "wife test".

99.9% of the people here who trip over themselves to shit on Plex and recommend any other service that requires IT knowledge to consistently and easily give access to family members, don't have to deal with the "wife test". Substitute "wife" with husband or mom, or grandma.