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Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by aseidl » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 3:07 PM UTC

grumps wrote: post #17

On slightly related topic, has anyone found some good Linux based tools to clean up your MP3 Library metadata?

Have you looked into Beets (http://beets.radbox.org/) or the classic Picard (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard)?

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by zapt02 » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 3:22 PM UTC

Raspberry pi compatible? :)

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by styxit » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 3:28 PM UTC

zapt02 wrote: post #22

Raspberry pi compatible? :)

Yes! Just follow the linux install guide.

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by grumps » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

aseidl wrote: post #21

grumps wrote: post #17

On slightly related topic, has anyone found some good Linux based tools to clean up your MP3 Library metadata?

Have you looked into Beets ( http://beets.radbox.org/ ) or the classic Picard ( http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard )?

I think I used MusicBrainz before. It worked pretty well but I had a bunch of one off MP3's that were a single band/song that it just botched. So now when I go through I find artists that I have no clue who they are, and I listen to the song and realize it's wrong.

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by sandGorgon » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 4:19 PM UTC

grumps wrote: post #18

sandGorgon wrote: post #14

My HTPC setup at home is to have my content on my laptop, running Plex server and I connect my android phone to my TV with the Plex Android app. Really, really good - in fact, I have seen people do the same with the 20$ android media sticks that you can buy off dealextreme or someplace. A great alternative to chromecast.

Have you run this on Debian? I see they offer an ubuntu package, and a few RPM packages.

It should work on both. Ubuntu is built on top of a debian core.

Plus Im running 12.04 - which is a old, stable release - so should be more in sync with upstream debian.

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by doublerebel » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 9:32 PM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #14

My HTPC setup at home is to have my content on my laptop, running Plex server and I connect my android phone to my TV with the Plex Android app. Really, really good - in fact, I have seen people do the same with the 20$ android media sticks that you can buy off dealextreme or someplace. A great alternative to chromecast.

Plex also has an interesting business model:

Free server software, in a dead simple installation package, with config and streaming through a pleasant html5 UI. Smart TV app also free. Small but not insignificant charge for iOS and Android clients. Small SaaS charge to provide dynamicdns /remote streaming.

It's so much of what Boxee aimed for and failed. I like hacking on things, but Plex works perfect out-of-the-box. Really impressed ever since I started using the software a year ago.

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by voltagex_ » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 10:19 PM UTC

dbcooper wrote: post #15

voltagex_ wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After Requiem stopped being maintained, I don't think there's a way to drop DRM from any iTunes video content.

Can't you just use an older version of iTunes with it?

Yes, but Apple prevents you from getting HD content with an older version.

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by sandGorgon » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 5:07 AM UTC

doublerebel wrote: post #26

sandGorgon wrote: post #14

My HTPC setup at home is to have my content on my laptop, running Plex server and I connect my android phone to my TV with the Plex Android app. Really, really good - in fact, I have seen people do the same with the 20$ android media sticks that you can buy off dealextreme or someplace. A great alternative to chromecast.

Plex also has an interesting business model: Free server software, in a dead simple installation package, with config and streaming through a pleasant html5 UI. Smart TV app also free. Small but not insignificant charge for iOS and Android clients. Small SaaS charge to provide dynamicdns /remote streaming. It's so much of what Boxee aimed for and failed. I like hacking on things, but Plex works perfect out-of-the-box…

From what I understand, it used to be a fork of XMBC. I think the ability to do the client/server model is possible with XBMC, but very hard to do out of the box.

But I agree - plex was worth the purchase of the mobile app.

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by Kudos » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 11:30 AM UTC

CliffyA wrote: post #10

So it's a tool that makes it easier to pirate TV shows? I'd prefer a tool that would pull all the episodes from my legitimate DVDs, or automatically dropped the DRM from my iTunes season pass episodes and imported them into my HTPC.

I didn't start buying music online until it became easy to buy it DRM-free. I'm waiting for the same thing to happen to TV shows and movies.

Re: Manage your HTPC from anywhere

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Post by beagle3 » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

Question on the subject: Does anyone know an HTPC/Media Center software that, when I pop in a CD or DVD, it automatically gets ripped and stored? Is there a plugin as such for one of the common ones (XBMC, Plex, etc.?)