Subj : Re: Media Servers
To   : Accession
From : jack phlash
Date : Sat Oct 07 2023 10:13:22

on 06 Oct 2023, Accession said...
 
 Ac> Whatever do you mean? I've always done it mostly by hand, granted it
 Ac> wasn't all that hard. Just time consuming downloading and then copying
 Ac> it to my shared media folder.

Oh, sorry, I was referring specifically to organizing your media files and ensuring they have the correct, full metadata, cover art, etc. If you're just leeching a movie and sticking it on your server to watch the same day, then nuking it later (which is how I usually do it) it really doesn't matter much, but for people building a massive collection of their favorite movies and shows, they're usually a bit more anal about this kind of thing. 

With older DLNA / UPnP servers there were often counterintuitive or at least esoteric rules for how they'd automatically scrape and populate meta data - files would often need to be organized and named in very *exact* ways, etc. and that's if they even supported doing it in the first place (some required plug-ins or totally separate applications to do this.) Plex has some of those issues still, of course, but it's much better at figuring out and matching on titles on its own, and of course metadata searching and scraping is built-in and automatic. 

 Ac> I just came to that realization when this thread started, to be honest.
 Ac> Started looking at what we all had and asked the rest of the family what
 Ac> I can get rid of. Come to find out we get MAX from our AT&T cell package
 Ac> for free, yet still pay for Discovery+. That one was cancelled
 Ac> immediately. Within the next 24 hours I had 3-4 emails from them begging
 Ac> me to come back with offers up to 50% off for the first few months.

Ha! They're taking another one from cable companies' playbooks, I see. Yeah, Netflix used to be one of my constants but it doesn't have nearly as much good stuff as it used to, and its original content hasn't been all that compelling for a while so I suspect that'll change soon. Prime, I rarely stream on, but I have it because I pay for Prime for various other reasons and it definitely comes in handy on occasion (they have quite a lot of weird, obscure stuff if you really dig around.) HBO/MAX has felt pretty strong at times, I think I have it more often than not these days. Apple, Discovery+, Disney, etc. are all sort of on an as-needed basis for me. Hulu and Paramount+ are always battling each other for a spot. I've been watching more on Paramount+ lately, but generally we've used Hulu more. I don't think I've ever had Peacock. I'm sure I'm forgetting some other major ones... 

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