The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It
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@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
Anyone used Jellyfin?
I know it's a fork of Emby. I'm not a fan of Mono/.net apps, so I'm sticking to Plex. Also lack of Apple TV app makes it non-starter now. If they add that, I might give it a shot. I know Emby has AMD hardware acceleration, I would assume Jellyfin has it too, that's one thing I'm missing in Plex.
I thought that they had AppleTV now on their site.
Still nothing. Airplay as a workaround, maybe Emby client could work. But all that has extremely low Wife Approval Factor, so no joy.
Edit: I missed Infuse app, so looks like it's viable now.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@travisdh1 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
Anyone used Jellyfin?
I looked at it, but haven't set up a media server yet. I need to for our music collection.
I'm about to start the process of music conversion. Several thousand CDs to convert so that I don't need to store them anymore. What a pain that is going to be.
don't you have to keep the media to prove you have license to the rip? or is the new location you're moving to not care about such things?
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
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@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
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@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@travisdh1 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
Anyone used Jellyfin?
I looked at it, but haven't set up a media server yet. I need to for our music collection.
I'm about to start the process of music conversion. Several thousand CDs to convert so that I don't need to store them anymore. What a pain that is going to be.
don't you have to keep the media to prove you have license to the rip? or is the new location you're moving to not care about such things?
Well, yes, when in the US. Legally I don't need them elsewhere. But I don't plan to dispose of them, just transfer them into very tight, not easy to access, storage.
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
holy hell - they are losing a ton on you.. .:P
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@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@travisdh1 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
Anyone used Jellyfin?
I looked at it, but haven't set up a media server yet. I need to for our music collection.
I'm about to start the process of music conversion. Several thousand CDs to convert so that I don't need to store them anymore. What a pain that is going to be.
don't you have to keep the media to prove you have license to the rip? or is the new location you're moving to not care about such things?
Well, yes, when in the US. Legally I don't need them elsewhere. But I don't plan to dispose of them, just transfer them into very tight, not easy to access, storage.
Can you store them on a spool, instead of cases? Thousands of cases, or even sleeves take a lot of space.
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@travisdh1 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
Anyone used Jellyfin?
I looked at it, but haven't set up a media server yet. I need to for our music collection.
I'm about to start the process of music conversion. Several thousand CDs to convert so that I don't need to store them anymore. What a pain that is going to be.
don't you have to keep the media to prove you have license to the rip? or is the new location you're moving to not care about such things?
Well, yes, when in the US. Legally I don't need them elsewhere. But I don't plan to dispose of them, just transfer them into very tight, not easy to access, storage.
Can you store them on a spool, instead of cases? Thousands of cases, or even sleeves take a lot of space.
I can, and some I have done that. Surprisingly the spools don't take up much less space, though. The cases we have are insanely dense and sit on shelves better, I think.
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
Where do i sign up for that?
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@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
Where do i sign up for that?
https://gsuite.google.com/signup/business/welcome?hl=en
You need a domain to sign up, but that can be as low as $0.50/year.
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
Cant argue with that, great value
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
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@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
It's giving me the $12/month plan. Might be worthwhile if I want to start putting our DVDs on a media server.
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@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.
Except it is also Google, and who knows how long they will keep the offer or even the service.
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@JaredBusch said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.
Except it is also Google, and who knows how long they will keep the offer or even the service.
G Suite is not going anywhere any time soon. They might as well kill Gmail if they are willing to discontinue G Suite. Unlimited storage has been there for years, and it's offered as a business service, it'd be pretty dumb to suddenly screw their business customers over. Microsoft and Amazon pulled that stunt before, although with non-business users, and I don't think it worked out too well for them. Everyone I've heard was using their storage services switched to G Suite.
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@JaredBusch said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.
Except it is also Google, and who knows how long they will keep the offer or even the service.
G Suite is not going anywhere any time soon. They might as well kill Gmail if they are willing to discontinue G Suite. Unlimited storage has been there for years, and it's offered as a business service, it'd be pretty dumb to suddenly screw their business customers over. Microsoft and Amazon pulled that stunt before, although with non-business users, and I don't think it worked out too well for them. Everyone I've heard was using their storage services switched to G Suite.
Google does it constantly with non-business customers. So if that's a fear for the others, it's a fear for them. And the lesson that they have learned is that... customers don't leave even when you do that.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@JaredBusch said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.
Except it is also Google, and who knows how long they will keep the offer or even the service.
G Suite is not going anywhere any time soon. They might as well kill Gmail if they are willing to discontinue G Suite. Unlimited storage has been there for years, and it's offered as a business service, it'd be pretty dumb to suddenly screw their business customers over. Microsoft and Amazon pulled that stunt before, although with non-business users, and I don't think it worked out too well for them. Everyone I've heard was using their storage services switched to G Suite.
Google does it constantly with non-business customers. So if that's a fear for the others, it's a fear for them. And the lesson that they have learned is that... customers don't leave even when you do that.
Ok, but what paid services has Google killed recently? I know they constantly do that with free services. Amazon and Microsoft were both charging for unlimited cloud drives, and at some point they told everyone to pound sand. Has Google done it with paying customers?
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I've used quite a few of their products and services but none were paid. Maybe there was something obscure, like Google Photos Print, that was paid, but everything else I recognize was free. Well, free as in free beer, I paid for it with my privacy.
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@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@JaredBusch said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:
My god how big is your NAS/Server?
It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.
OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?
$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.
How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.
Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.
Except it is also Google, and who knows how long they will keep the offer or even the service.
G Suite is not going anywhere any time soon. They might as well kill Gmail if they are willing to discontinue G Suite. Unlimited storage has been there for years, and it's offered as a business service, it'd be pretty dumb to suddenly screw their business customers over. Microsoft and Amazon pulled that stunt before, although with non-business users, and I don't think it worked out too well for them. Everyone I've heard was using their storage services switched to G Suite.
Google does it constantly with non-business customers. So if that's a fear for the others, it's a fear for them. And the lesson that they have learned is that... customers don't leave even when you do that.
Ok, but what paid services has Google killed recently? I know they constantly do that with free services. Amazon and Microsoft were both charging for unlimited cloud drives, and at some point they told everyone to pound sand. Has Google done it with paying customers?
Can't remember the name, but they used to have this conferencing system and they phased it out while you paid for it on Google Suite. Only time I was ever subjected to the hell of being a G Suite customer and it was the worst. And a huge portion of our time working with it was all dealing with them discontinuing the parts that we needed.
