Post #1278754
2026-04-17 15:20 UTC
Replies (39)
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@BenRiceM@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 23:24
@caseyliss@mastodon.social @HollyGoDarkly@wandering.shop nice try, fbi
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@User47@vmst.io 2026-04-18 00:32
@caseyliss@mastodon.social @rpmik@avgeek.social plex here, that’s how I voted. But if I was starting from scratch, that now exorbitant lifetime fee would cause me to examine the other stuff more closely
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@caseyliss@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 18:46
Goddamnit I’m gonna have to add Jellyfin for Now Playing in Callsheet, aren’t I
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@JPZ@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:23
@caseyliss +1 for Channels DVR :-)
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@ronmccoy@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:25
@caseyliss Plex currently, but starting to look for alternatives as it becomes worse release by release.
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@mrsp@mastodon.cloud 2026-04-17 15:25
@caseyliss Qualifier, Plex for now. I have Jellyfin running, it’s fine but maybe not exactly what I want. Basically still looking.
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@alex@alexanderkucera.com 2026-04-17 15:24
@caseyliss AudiobookShelf. I stopped self-hosting videos years ago.
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@fancypat@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:27
@caseyliss channels
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@kate@federatedfandom.net 2026-04-17 15:27
@caseyliss I also keep separate instances of audiobook server and kavita, for comics. Jellyfin and Plex can work for both, but there's some serious drawbacks that annoy me. (Like losing track of the place I left off in the audiobook)
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@dmd@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:28
@caseyliss Navidrome is very popular for music specifically. 📈 https://www.navidrome.org/analytics/ (Of course, I have to run them all. But if not for my day job, I would probably just use Navidrome.)
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@hoagie@jawns.club 2026-04-17 15:30
@caseyliss I'm currently running Plex and Jellyfin in parallel, mostly because I just don't understand what Plex is doing these days. They aren't really shipping new features but the app gets updated? They took out music and photos and now they're putting them back? Plex just has kind of a weird little smell right now that makes me think it's wise to be running an alternative in parallel.
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@13pt8plus@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:33
@caseyliss Used to have plex but switched to Jellyfin when I wanted to add remote access. It is working well enough that I will stick with it unless something changes.
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@skbo@social.skbo.net 2026-04-17 15:37
@caseyliss Long time Plex user. I keep trying alternatives from time to time, but for now, I find the Plex tvOS app to be the more intuitive and stable one of them all.
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@niclake@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:38
@caseyliss Currently investigating this for myself. Plex is where I started, but I was quickly redirected to Jellyfin.
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@whyrlpool@slime.global 2026-04-17 15:39
@caseyliss nginx webserver and i just yeet media directly into vlc from there
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@dewey@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:48
@caseyliss If it wouldn’t be blocked at Hetzner I’d run Plex, but now I’m using Jellyfin which is find but the apps (Especially tvOS) are not there yet.
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@tobsen@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:50
@caseyliss Infuse with plain SMB.
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@digitalpardoe@social.lol 2026-04-17 15:52
@caseyliss I like it to be available on all devices, to non-technical family members who I don’t live with - so Plex without question.
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@andrewwade@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 16:01
@caseyliss Plex on Synology but playback via Infuse cos for some unfindable reason, Plex says the (gigabit Ethernet!) connection to the 4K ATV is “too slow to play this content” even for 720p h265 files. Infuse has no issues. So weird. Gave up debugging years ago. Luckily Infuse syncs with Plex libraries.
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@troldann@techhub.social 2026-04-17 16:11
@caseyliss I use SMB file sharing and then the client that I primarily use, Kodi (formerly XBMC) does its own content management. It doesn't sync across devices because each client is independent, but since I only use it with the one device it's perfect for me. I would use Plex, but it doesn't have features I consider must-have. Like the ability to retime audio sync while playing back. Or automatic display of Forced subtitles while subtitles are disabled. (Plex wants you to turn on a separate subtitle track that only has the forced subtitles in it, Kodi looks for Forced subtites in the normal subtitle track and displays them. Much more "Just Works" for me.)
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@ggulrajani@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 16:13
@caseyliss rip my Squeezebox :-(
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@n5wwy@techhub.social 2026-04-17 16:24
@caseyliss I use Plex, but I LOVE Channels DVR!
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@lo_fye@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 16:26
@caseyliss 16TB Plex, verrrrry full.
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@jadedtwin@corteximplant.com 2026-04-17 16:28
@caseyliss Jellyfin has been ideal for me! Zero regrets
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@fex@fosstodon.org 2026-04-17 16:28
@caseyliss Video: NAS Samba Share + Infuse Audiobooks: Audiobookshelf + plappa
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@geraint@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 16:36
@caseyliss Jellyfin + Infuse. I mention because technically Infuse doesn’t need a media server back end as it can manage libraries directly from a file share.
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@nicholasadeleon@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 16:39
@caseyliss Plex since 2008!
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@jqn@hachyderm.io 2026-04-17 16:41
@caseyliss Channels. While I have used Plex for this in the past, I don't actually host much media, mostly record from live TV. Channels has hosted the little bit of non-TV recorded media I have just fine.
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@jon_alper@mastodon.online 2026-04-17 16:42
@caseyliss Infuse front-ending SMB.
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca 2026-04-17 16:42
@caseyliss Plex, because it has a native tvOS app. If only Jellyfin had one, I would migrate there.
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@dimitribouniol@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 17:03
@caseyliss A Mac mini with waaaay too many drives connected to it 😅 (everything on the right-side of this image, including the definitely-not-custom-firmware Blu-ray drives, for uh, archival purposes)
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@njpozner@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 17:05
@caseyliss I use Plex, but mostly because of inertia. Certainly not because I am happy with the product right now.
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@michaelrjohnson@mas.to 2026-04-17 17:11
@caseyliss “TV” (i.e., the excised portion from iTunes of old). Apple spent a decade convincing me to buy media in their app. I augmented that with my own DVD rips, and imported them into the library. Now I’m left feeling like an afterthought in what was supposed to be the future of media. Playback is done 100% through the “Computers” app on the Apple TV, which has been rock solid for almost 15 years, provided the (now) TV (formerly iTunes) app is open on the Mac mini.
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@aglimme@mastodon.online 2026-04-17 17:27
@caseyliss I just use the Synology built in Video Station
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@torsteinv@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 17:28
@caseyliss just give up and get infuse hahaha how many times must we beat this horse?
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@criffer@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 17:29
@caseyliss Serviio, which is a DLNA server that runs on Mac and that Roku Media Player is happy to talk to
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@kbm0@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 17:33
@caseyliss minidlna
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@elyuw@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 17:40
@caseyliss NFS shares on an Gen 11 HP Microsevrer, accessed via a Raspberry Pi 4 running LibreElec (KODI). No transcoding or middle tier needed.
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@nelissen@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 18:37
@caseyliss fileserver (synology crrrrrrrrrr) & Infuse Pro