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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 1 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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z9znz ◴[13 Nov 22 13:23 UTC] No.33582786[source]▶
I don't really understand storing lots of common media. Storing your own photos I get, since only you have them. But how many times do you watch the same movies/shows over again?

Storing music makes a bit more sense, at least if you had the original media and it was ripped well. But that doesn't take much space at all; nowdays you can easily fit a huge music collection on a small storage device or even just in your phone+cloud drive+computer.

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1. rolenthedeep ◴[13 Nov 22 15:52 UTC] No.33584125[source]▶
Some things aren't available for streaming, so you have to find a way to download it. Sometimes you have a bunch of DVDs you want to store and watch digitally without buying it again.

And then sometimes there's shows that just aren't worth paying Amazon $25 each for 15 seasons so you pirate it.

Now you have video on a disk somewhere and want to watch it on your TV and phone and tablet and grandma's computer. Systems like this are arguably the least painful way of doing that.

Will you watch any of those videos multiple times? Probably not, but it will always be there if you want it. It won't randomly disappear on the whims of a third party just when you want to show a new friend this cool show they definitely need to watch.