I tried it a month or so ago (: The remote control thing is an XBMC issue which as far as I know nobody has any plans to ever address. Same with the music playlist thing. They say you can "import" your playlist... from another application, in m3u format or something. Course that only works if the directory structure is exactly the same, and doesn't let you edit anything! Plex was pretty bad about metadata for my music collection, too. I can kinda understand with TV/movies, but music has the metadata in the file! As for movies/TV, well, MythTV has trouble with those, too, but if it's not sure, it asks. Plex just chose whatever option it felt like... I have a... pretty big collection. I've been building my digital media for close to a decade. So I have a LOt of stuff in there, and even a small mixup ends up snowballing all over the place. I tried Plex, as well as just about any other media center frontend I could find, because I've been using MythTV for ages and I really don't like the newer versions... so I'm stuck on 0.24. Which I have to build myself (for both front and backend). Which also means I have no support or active development. So I'd /love/ to find something better. Music playback is where it all tends to fall apart (including for new versions of MythTV. I use Subsonic to stream music to my phone. Good playlist support (: On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Justin Krejci wrote: > That's interesting to hear about your problems with plex, thanks for > tempering my happiness :) as I've never had a single problem. I've also only > just started really using it recently (about a month or so). I have not > really used it for mp3 collections yet, mainly because I've been using > another front end system for that for many years already but every movie and > tv show I've thrown at it has been perfectly handled. > When was the last time you've tried it? It seems to be under active > development, possibly some of your functional issues have since been > resolved. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: tclug at freakzilla.com > Date:04/06/2014 9:56 PM (GMT-06:00) > To: TCLUG > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] PVR suggestions? > > My problem with Plex was that the frontend is basically XBMC. I can't use > XBMC as my main media frontend because music playback on it is horrible > (playlist support is... not really existant) and reassigning remote > control keys is an insanely horrible ordeal. > > Not sure what the frontend is like on Android or other platforms, but > since I don't really need to stream videos to my phone, and my tablets can > just mount the NFS shares... > > I've also had terrible problems with Plex misidentifying a lot of my > media, even when there is metadata and I store it in the directory > structure they recommend... > > > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Justin Krejci wrote: > > > Maybe starting to digress from the original topic but Plex media server is > > pretty much awesome wrapped in kick ass. With Android and ios client > > software as well as just working in Chrome (maybe other browsers too?) > it's > > basically way super simple for LAN media sharing and with a free myplex > > account it's easy for online sharing with friends and family or yourself > > when out and about. > > It supports multiple media types (movies, TV shows, mp3, etc) and it does > > its best to sort/inventory your collections plus it can pull in TV > channels > > from many stations via the Internet, it's pretty much awesome. It's in the > > apt repository so it's cake to install too. > > > > It supports DLNA and probably several other acronyms; it's what I like to > > call "buzzword compliant." > > > > Since my mobile devices are all running Android I just use Airdroid to > move > > files to/from my mobile devices. > > > > Sorry for the thread hijacking, just had to spill forth some of my > > enthusiasm a little. > > > > > > -------- Original message -------- > > From: tclug at freakzilla.com > > Date:04/06/2014 9:00 PM (GMT-06:00) > > To: TCLUG > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] PVR suggestions? > > > > Hi there, > > > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Brian Wall wrote: > > > > > From what I remember, the stock capture driver worked pretty well with > > > the card out of the box. That's why I shelled out for that specific > > > card, it had a "works everywhere" chipset. > > > > "Works out of the box" is one thing - I have a hauppauge tuner, too > > (though a USB one). It works but MythTV's setup was weirder than all hell. > > Again, it worked, but it's like Configure Capture Card, then Configure an > > Input Method, then Configure Channels, and I think a few more steps. > > Totally a Myth thing... they've been making it more and more complex for > > no apparently reason. Oh, and you need to run a dedicated backend for > > capture for some reason. Even though my capture card is on my media center > > PC, not my media server... > > > > > One of these years I'll pick myself up one of them new-fangled Blu-ray > > > players with a DLNA client. > > > > Hehe, I'm sure one of the Roku boxes or equivalent (which are like $50 I > > think?) can do DLNA. At least you'd think so! > > > > I have a PS3 which picks up my MythTV "shares" - but it refuses to play > > any of the media. No video, no audio, nothing. I have no idea what kind of > > weird formats it wants (it didn't even like my MP3 files). > > > > > I would like to be able to rip DVDs (that I own, yes) and CDs (yes) > > > > Do NOT apologise for that! I own hundreds of CDs (I may have passed 500, I > > stopped counting when I was at 300+ and that was several years ago). CDs > > are still the primary, almost exclusive way I get music. When you have > > that many CDs the only way to possibly navigate it is to rip them all to a > > server and play through there. Every CD I get is automatically ripped (in > > FLAC) to the media server, and then put in a box in the attic (: > > > > I've been going through my DVDs and Blu-Ray collection and doing the same, > > now that I have the disc space... honestly with a lot of the TV shows I > > have on discs it's easier to, uh, get the versions where someone else did > > the ripping. Saves times. But yeah, having all my media on a server is > > incredibly convenient... except that making backups of 10+ terabytes is > > kinda hard. > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >