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Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by benologist »

ClayM wrote: post #5

Is there a good option for encrypted cloud storage that this can access? Unless you want whoever scanning your stuff and seeing your collection of anime...

Plex are already monitoring everything you have and watch and send that information to their servers for retrieving meta info/thumbnails from third-party APIs they proxy.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by ascagnel_ »

crooked-v wrote: post #2

This has the big limitation, at least at the moment, that the supported providers all cap out at 1 TB for any kind of reasonably-priced storage.

Originally, they were going to support Amazon (who offers more storage as part of Prime), but that was dropped at some point.

Those cloud providers likely don't want to get into the business of hosting media files that go into Plex. There aren't a lot of legal ways to get TV shows and movies (the bulk of the space) into the DRM-free format that Plex needs.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by joshuata »

crooked-v wrote: post #2

This has the big limitation, at least at the moment, that the supported providers all cap out at 1 TB for any kind of reasonably-priced storage.

It's also painfully slow. I've been using it for the past few months, and it rescans my library every time I access it. Half the time it shows my libraries as empty. Overall it feels very unfinished.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by bubblethink »

benologist wrote: post #6
ClayM wrote: post #5

Is there a good option for encrypted cloud storage that this can access? Unless you want whoever scanning your stuff and seeing your collection of anime...

Plex are already monitoring everything you have and watch and send that information to their servers for retrieving meta info/thumbnails from third-party APIs they proxy.

It's about the cloud provider monitoring your data. Plex by definition has to see the data to serve it.
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