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With Obsidian the thing that made me ok with this was it's all just markdown. I have all my data stored locally in an ubiquitous file format
But there's an entire workflow embedded in the use of Obsidian. It's not "just markdown". That's like saying you could move from vscode to notepad because it's "just text".
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Not all commercial software is the devil, but money is the root of all evil. Rember Big G's old slogan before they were beholden to shareholders? Given Plex already employs multiple dark patterns in an attempt to obtain your email address, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't slide down the same slippery slope if they got bigger.
> Not all commercial software is the devil, but money is the root of all evil. I have a book of Chinese fairy tales which touches on interesting topics like the creation of the world and the beginning of civilization. On that second topic, it says that shortly after human societies came into being, the men started fighting with each other over the women. I imagine the mythology is correct that fighting over women pre…
Definitely feels like we are the root of all evil, we always find a reason to kill one another.
Hopefully we are a young species and will grow out of it eventually.
My time in front of a TV screen is 10 minutes per year, basically the count down of new year at Times square that is. I use my computer(streaming services, e.g. prime video, netflix,etc) and youtube for entertainment needs. For big movies I went to theaters. From the comment here I realize there are still lots of TV watchers, even though TV is probably just acting as a big screen.
So let me just add that I've been using Plex for years to play 4k HDR files for myself and transcoded versions for family and friends.
And it works beautifully!
No complaints really. There's clients for all devices family has, I have all my files, I can share to friends, etc...
Yes, they've also added a new streaming service. I really don't see the issue, just disable it if you don't want it.
For me Plex has always worked fine. Good product.
I use Jellyfin because I like to have everything in docker containers and be able to always access the service via a browser. It works great on a PC and on my Android (where I have an app as well). This makes it also easier to secure the service via a proxy. Where Jellyfin is abysmally bad is Amazon Firestick. I tried to use it but it would always crash after some time, I gave up and am using VLC + SMB on the TV. Thi…
Plex sometimes annoys me, but it looks like Jellyfin doesn’t have the clients I need. I use Plex on my XBOX, iPad, chrome cast, and computer. Plex has apps for all of those, but it looks like Jellyfin doesn’t have an XBOX player.
> "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead." This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work. However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates…
Load your music into "Music" and it is all there and not "hidden in a sub-menu". ITunes is terrible, but "Music" isnt bad.
Has items on the left for "recently added, or "Songs" can sort by ratings, search, etc.
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Use a fire TV stick that costs virtually nothing and install the Jellyfin app. You are done.
Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p, not to mention missing codecs (Dolby Vision, ATMOS, DTS etc.) and lack of compliance. If you don’t care about any of those or have a TV that don’t do 4K then yeah an Android box and lower fidelity source will do.
Is this the case on the "4k" version as well? i have both the original (1080p) and 4K version on my newer TV's and havent noticed it "choking"?
For me, the main thing that's lacking in Plex is good support for audiobooks. The storage and metadata backend are good, but I'm on Android and just couldn't find a good app that would: 1. work with Plex 2. play books both online and offline (by pre-downloading) 3. not require the Plex server to be exposed to the internet 4. (nice to have) sync reading position across devices I played with the Plex app (doesn't remem…
There's a feature request that details some of the support already in place: https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/243/audiobook-support
Support for resuming Audiobooks appears to have been added: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/2084
Sadly offline playback isn't really supported. The app can download files to your phone's Downloads folder but you'd have to play them elsewhere. There's no way of so through Jellyfin at the moment.
I've considered moving from Plex to Jellyfin (or some other offering in the space), but I don't think anything can really compete with Plex. Plex, for me, required quite a bit of fiddling, but once you get it working it works _very_ well. There are decent-quality apps on every platform you want to use. There's a whole lot of software that integrates with Plex from things like requesting/adding new media to monitoring…
>Some of the things I appreciate about Plex:
- It does a very good job at matching media - It's very easy to share access with others - It supports many types of media -- TV, movies, music, live TV, and just plain ol' video. I store class lectures on Plex! - I'm able to stream very high bitrate movies (upwards 40mbps) without issue
Jellyfin does this for free. I wanted to be able to create multiple accounts in Plex - but this needs a subscription or lifetime pass.
Jellyfin also does Movies, Music, and i have loaded a few training video's on it as well.
At the end of the day you can see where Plex is heading - Sell lifetime subs and then try to further monetize the customers to pay for monthly expenses Plex faces running the service... So i went to Jellyfin.