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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 3 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.656s | source
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andybak ◴[13 Nov 22 11:37 UTC] No.33582111[source]▶
> Recently, I opened up Plex and couldn’t find my own content. My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead.

It's an annoying (but understandable from a business persepctive) default - but a few minutes digging in the settings and I figured out how to configure Plex back to how it was.

My issues with Plex run deeper - the music metadata handling has some serious issues and that's 50% of my usage.

And if that's ever fixed I won't be able to use it because I'm stuck on an older Pleax version.

This is so I can it on an older Mac Mini. Surely Plex should be embracing running on older hardware?

(I would need to update MacOS which makes the box unusuable because of limited soldered-on RAM)

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1. josteink ◴[13 Nov 22 11:50 UTC] No.33582186[source]▶
From a practical point of view, if you’re already “just” using it as a media-server, wouldn’t a more realistic approach be to just install Linux on it?

That way you can dedicate almost 100% of the limited RAM to Plex and it should keep running fine?

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2. andybak ◴[13 Nov 22 12:58 UTC] No.33582625[source]▶
I can't stream to a HomePod speaker with Linux that I'm aware of. There's other MacOS conveniences I use as well.
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3. rodric ◴[13 Nov 22 16:07 UTC] No.33584295[source]▶
Is your Mac mini serving and playing your music, or serving only? The server wouldn’t stream directly to a HomePod speaker, and your player (perhaps on an iPhone or iPad?) would stream to your speaker equally whether the server runs on macOS or Linux.