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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

lavezzi wrote: post #313
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #158

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I use the full stack and all very grateful for the products. The remaining annoyances are: - lack of multi language support - there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly) - I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it n…

> there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly) Not following this. Settings -> Connections in Sonarr for example.

Sorry for not having been clearer.

What I meant is that there is no common management of dat. When I make changes in one service, the others do not know it, or know it after the fact (via a reindexing for instance).

Say for instance I delete a movie in Jellyfin. Radarr will then pick up that it is missing and re-upload.

Or that I deleted a torrent in deluge. Radar will restart it.

Most of the things are doable, one just need to know what to do where, exactly (otherwise the other pieces may try to recover).

Right now I am making the chnages in Radarr (despite actually seeing them in Jellyfin). This is a real problem when I have, say, two uploaded versions of a movie and want to keep only one. I have to be very careful to track down in JF what I will remove in Radarr.

It would have been great if there was a common indexing mechanism across all the suite.

What you pointed me are notifiers - they work fine (but are shoot-and-forget kind of services)

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by Zircom »

panda88888 wrote: post #351
Zircom wrote: post #319

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I have a separate radarr for anime because there's are anime specific trackers that are much better for downloading anime, especially if you are looking for non-English subs, but radarr doesn't have a way to pick a specific tracker to download a particular series from. So my anime radarr instance only has those specific trackers on it so it will download from them everytime.

Which non-English subs do you look for? I try to look for Chinese subs and it’s been a struggle to find good tracker.

What might be easier than a whole separate Chinese tracker, Plex at least has a pretty robust feature where you can have it automatically find and download subtitles in whatever language you set. Only problem there is sometimes the timing is a little off with the actual video so the subs don't pop up at the right time, but you can change the offset with just a few clicks until it's right and then usually it's the same for every episode going forward.

If you're not using Plex or find it doesn't work so well for Chinese subs, can also try bazarr which does the same thing with subs but is a standalone software.

So with the above setup you can download the actual series from wherever and then it'll fetch Chinese subs for you and add them automatically. Otherwise for actual Chinese trackers try share.dmhy.org and mikanani.me for public trackers.

Feel free to shoot me an email(in my profile) if you need any advice or help setting anything up :)

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by l__l »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #158
snapplebobapple wrote: post #58

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You can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.

I use the full stack and all very grateful for the products. The remaining annoyances are: - lack of multi language support - there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly) - I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it n…

Honestly I just think the concept of Son/Radarr doesn't translate well to music, I find Lidarr fiddly in general.

In particular I'd add to your list that the overnight scans to update cover art are an absolute mess. It's not so big a deal on my libraries in Sonarr and Radarr, but for Lidarr? Jesus Christ. I have reasonably sized music library (~400/500 gig), and every night Lidarr starts phoning out to check, for every single album and artist, whether the associated cover art or artist image has changed. This takes hours, and is completely unnecessary, and cannot be turned off. I've resorted to just blocking the addresses it does this on, but this breaks things when I try and use it to add new music.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostlogin »

ufish235 wrote: post #342
syntaxing wrote: post #329

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I actually think buying a first gen Mac Mini M1 is a better idea with a thunderbolt drive storage. I have friends in California that does this for the reasons you mentioned. The utility price has made homelab servers and 3D printing pretty much non viable unless you want to pay a $300+ electricity bill.

Actually I do have an M1 Mac Mini - what's his setup? Maybe my problem is that MacOS doesn't feel as friendly for getting an entire homeland setup.

It’ll run through docker surely? A nice docker compose media server is a beautiful thing to behold.

I use a Nuc but the Mac mini would be a great server (though costs a lot).

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostlogin »

ufish235 wrote: post #348
https443 wrote: post #308

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It worked on my older "DS 216+II". Could not stream more than 1 person at a time though. That was ok for my usage but not sure for yours. I recently upgraded to "DS 423+" and it's a lot faster - can have multiple streams going if I want.

Do you ever notice/regret the fact that it only has 1GBe instead of 2.5?

I run a 1821 and stuck a super cheap 10gbe card into it. It’s fantastic.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostlogin »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #249
syntaxing wrote: post #146

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Not OP, but you pretty much have to run the Celeron ones. I don't think the docker image would work with the Realtek ones (the ones that end in j). I have a DS220+ (J4025 with dual core only). It works ok, you pretty much max out one of the cores running a 4K stream. I would recommend separating the storage and server if you can afford it. The price difference between the quad core (4 bay) and 2 core (has 2 bay) is e…

Another idea is to get a thin client with an i7 or i9 (you probably want at least 10th gen at this point) and either an external enclosure for a few SSDs or if you find one with a PCIE slot, a PCIE card to fit maybe 4x m.2 SSDs. Some good deals are out there on U.2 SSDs if you look as well, like 8TB for $400 from Intel or WD good. Don’t forget that Asrock Rack and Supermicro sell Atom and Xeon-D boards, as well as so…

I run an Intel Nuc with an fstab entry to mount an nfs share. The gruntier Nucs will even take a full size pci card and therefore 10gbe.

Mine has been bullet proof and works really well with a huge amount of storage (Synology).

It’ll transcode 10+ streams of high bitrate video without breaking a sweat.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by diffeomorphism »

n0zmer wrote: post #255
amiga386 wrote: post #181

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That's a bold claim. Personally I'm very much liking Finamp (for Jellyfin), it's coming along nicely and it does a great job IMHO, especially its offline mode works robustly. Looking at the feature list of Plexamp, sure, it does have a few more niceties, but it doesn't look like Plexamp is free or open in any way, so I'm never going to run it.

That's great and all, but the quality difference is 100% there and there is absolutely nothing wrong with paying developers to make great software.

Great, so pay the jellyfin devs. The "free" means freedom not price and you are very much encouraged to pay for free software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostlogin »

urbandw311er wrote: post #45
PUSH_AX wrote: post #13

For years I just wanted a good user experience playing video files from my MBP to a TV, I spent a lot of money (on NAS, chromecasts etc), used a lot of software with objectively terrible user experiences (Plex I'm looking firmly at you). Finally, I discovered the combination of Jellyfin and Infuse App. It works really well.

I’d be interested to know what you find terrible about the PLEX UX. I’ve been a happy user for years and have found the user interface to be reasonably intuitive. Perhaps dense in places, but certainly not terrible in my opinion.

> I’d be interested to know what you find terrible about the PLEX UX

1) Adding new users is harder than it should be (the sharing tab takes me to ‘camera roll’ and ‘synced content’ on my phone. ‘Manage library access’ is the correct section to go to.

2) Getting new users to watch default res (not transcode) is not easy.

3) Deleting the pinned crap that gets added every so often is frustrating.

4) Finding a particular setting when you want it is way too hard - settings are too spread out.

5) Splitting out content is irritating (eg mine versus a library shared with me).

6) The server can end up chewing up an absolute mass of storage with its logs, and app data. This is hard (impossible?) to manage from the UI.

7) Probably not a UI bug, but Plex loses the sound/video sync sometimes. Making the show transcode is the only reliable fix I’ve found. I wish I could chose to advance or regard the audio in settings while watching. Or even better, just not break.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostlogin »

manmal wrote: post #268
Timon3 wrote: post #141

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> When you’re setting up a new server, it shows you a bunch of default Libraries for their own media. Unselecting them then should remove them from your list. It's been a while since I last tried setting it up, but I can't remember anything during the setup talking about external streaming libraries. I tried setting it up in the way I expected it to work based on my previous knowledge. > If you don’t know which libra…

I just looked this up in the iOS app, and you can just un-pin all libraries except your own in the hamburger menu.

They come back eventually. I’ve deleted the crap dozens of times.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostlogin »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #170
Timon3 wrote: post #141

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> When you’re setting up a new server, it shows you a bunch of default Libraries for their own media. Unselecting them then should remove them from your list. It's been a while since I last tried setting it up, but I can't remember anything during the setup talking about external streaming libraries. I tried setting it up in the way I expected it to work based on my previous knowledge. > If you don’t know which libra…

“Libraries” is what Plex calls “collections” I think Emby/Jellyfin use the same terminology, but don’t quote me on that. After you create a Plex instance, you still need to go and create a “Movies” library, a “TV Shows” library, maybe a “Music” library, an “Audiobooks” Library and so on. Those are the ones that show on the left panel in the Web UI, TV App etc. It’s how you manage your media in general During initial…

> You can unselect them. You can also remove them from your Library list later on.

They respawn.

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