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Posts must be related to Plex and Plex-related products, apps. etc. Try to keep comments relevant to the parent comment and to the post.


Rule 4 - Keep discussions of "media aqcuistion" limited to means and methods only.

Discussions regarding media acquisition should be limited to the "how" not the "what", as this is not the place to discuss piracy of specific media. There are other communities for that, and we don't want to get this community defederated from instances where it's a forbidden topic. Posts/comments discussing specific acts of piracy ("How do I find X show?" or "Where can I download Y film?")will be removed. For further clarification see this post


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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by gndagreborn@lemmy.world to c/plex@lemmy.ml
 
 

Aww

Happy Thanksgiving! As much grief as plex has given me in the last few months, this was still sweet to see.

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I've had trouble streaming Plex in the bedroom, 4K content only. Lot's of buffering/stutters.

I still haven't got around to networking the bedroom to Ethernet, just WiFi.

Out of curiosity I opened VLC on the bedroom Nvidia Shield, and there's an option to access devices on the local network, including my NAS. Opened the file directly and it only buffered once, slowed for about a minute (the audio sounded like my cat playing with my turntable lol) but then it caught up in 30 sec or so and streamed flawlessly after.

Not sure why it worked better, but figured I'd post here as a hack for others in similar situations.

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Now that tidal integration is dead, a good option I've used before is livexone (formerly slacker). While i loved having everything in one place, I prefer not having to buy/rip or download the huge catalogs available elsewhere. And now that music seems to be going away in plex clients in the roadmap as well, i decided to find another solution sooner.

The ui isnt the best, but is far from the worst. How I use it:

  • star an artist to add them to your list of artists
  • then immediately also add that artist to each custom station you want them to be a part of
  • while playing your custom stations, use the dot menu to fine tune how much outside of the station can be pulled in. This, imo, is live's killer feature. Similar music is based on the whole list of artists in the station, not just a single artist.
  • grow your artists and playlists by browsing related.

In addition to this, livex also has genres, curated lists, new music lists, and podcasts.

It also has apps that do not suck on android auto and android tv.

I'm already not missing plexamp + tidal, so I wanted to share.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by tilefan@lemm.ee to c/plex@lemmy.ml
 
 

edit - turns out rebooting it five times is what works.

when I'm using any of my Plex players, it acts like my server is turned off. when I go into settings, it says that my server is unavailable with a secure connection. I've tried restarting everything, rebooting everything, I can't watch my server.

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The error is saying there’s not enough memory. But not enough memory where? Anyone else running into this? Any suggestions for resolution?

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I'm an unemployed software developer with some time to make things I've wanted to exist.

I just released a web app that lets you log in with your Plex account which imports the movies available in your library, create a voting session, and invite friends to vote on movies. When a movie gets votes from all your friends in the session, it is declared the winner and the session creator will get a link to open the movie in Plex.

I was tired of endlessly scrolling through my movie library whenever it was time to pick a movie. I think this will help.

Here are some screenshots

Dashboard

Voting Session

Check it out if you like the idea. You can reply here or DM if you run into any issues or have any ideas.

Some of my ideas for the next features to add:

  • Filter by watched/unwatched
  • Select genres for the voting session
  • Make popcorn
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This royally sucks for me. I like having my own local library integrated with Tidal.

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Hi All,

About a year ago I transferred all my files to a new drive. I used filzezilla which did mostly ok-ish, but I didn't notice that some of the video files were corrupted. Random files will have a green tinge to them (like someone put a green filter over the lens).

It seems random, although if it's a series it's usually the whole series.

I've been replacing them as they come up, but I was wondering if anyone had any bright ideas to expedite the process.

Thanks for any help!

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looks like tvdb doesn't have anything past season 9 yet. technically it's season 12, right?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25161862

I have followed the docs and have the recommended folder structures for my Plex and arrs setup.

sonarr has a volume set as /data which gives it access to e.g. /data/usenet/downloads This is working fine with SABnzdb

I am using a seedbox for torrents. Looking at ruTorrent on the seedbox, I can see that the local download folder there is set to: /home/seedit4me/torrents/rtorrent

sonarr is reporting "No files found are eligible for import in:

  • /home/seedit4me/torrents/rtorrent/Completed/tv-sonarr/filename.mkv

I have set a remote path in the download clients page in sonarr as follows:

  • Host - ****.seedit4.me
  • Remote path: /home/seedit4me
  • local path: /data

I have ftp'd the mkv file to actual folder structure:

  • /data/torrents/rtorrent/Completed/tv-sonaar/filename.mkv

The permissions on this file are:

  • -rw-rw-r--

the folder permissions are:

  • drwxrwxr-x 2 myacct myacct 4096 Aug 2 11:41 .
  • drwxrwxr-x 3 myacct myacct

My uid=1000(my acct), same for gid I have set these as the PUID and PGID env variables in sonarr

The log file in sonarr is reporting: |Error|DownloadedEpisodesImportService|Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr: /home/(removed)/torrents/rtorrent/Completed/tv-sonarr/filename.mkv

Seeing this, i tried mapping /home/(removed)/ to /data/ but that doesn't work either.

Can anyone guide me on what I am doing wrong? I feel like I've checked everything so I can't understand the issue at all.---

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I am finding older movies not having translation subtitles when people are speaking a foreign language, like in the beginning of The Hunt for Red October or Stargate. Watching the movie on the the physical copy of Stargate, when they are speaking Egyptian, English subtitles come up translating what they are saying. On my digital copy, I have to have subtitles on all the time in order to see the translation, which sucks because I don’t need subtitles the rest of the movie, just when they are speaking Egyptian. My theory is that there was some sort of trigger on the physical copy that activates the subtitles at that point that is missing from the digital copy. Is there a way to fix or get around this? Or am I just stuck reading subtitles the entirety of the movies if I want to know what people are saying in the foreign language?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by assassin6@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/plex@lemmy.ml
 
 

I followed the trash guide and have sonaar and sabnzbd working brilliantly together in portainer.

My plex media folders when I was on win11 were on external disks. After moving to ubuntu I can find them under /media//....

Plex is able to read from them, so it was quick to rebuild the library. My question is, how can I give sonarr access to them? I want to be able to import them and have sonarr able to write to them (when I download episodes).

Is there a clever way to put them into the /data structure that I followed in the trash guide?

Thanks!

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I recently moved from win 11 on my mini PC to ubuntu. Following a tutorial, I have plex set up in portainer.

When looking to add the arrs, I came across the wiki which warns against using portainer for sonarr.

I don't know what to do now. Is it possible to run the arrs outside of portainer and still work with plex?

Or does anyone use portainer for arrs and find it's OK?

Just looking for advice on a way forward. Thinking I might start again with docker compose as they suggest.

Thanks!

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I'd like to give a family member access to my live TV for the olympics, but I don't want to give someone who doesn't really know what they're doing that sort of control inside my account.

will the pin keep them out? or do they need the pin in the first place

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I can't seem to find what tvdb designates them as. are they part of your Family Guy TV series, or are they movies?

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if so, what do you use and why?

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There's not a ton in this post, but they are doing 20% off of Lifetime Plex Pass. There's a link at the bottom of the post, but you can also get it:

redeem using the code GETGEEKY

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Taken from the discord

We have an important update to share - we're going to be rebranding!

That's right, the time has come for us to say goodbye to the Plex Meta Manager name and introduce a new brand identity.

Whilst this may seem out of the blue, it is something we have been considering for nearly a year - in order to future-proof, it is important that we disassociate ourselves from the "Plex" trademark.

Rest assured, the functionality of the tool remains unchanged; only the name will be different.

We value the input of our users and invite you to help us decide our new name. We've included a Google Form link for your submissions. Feel free to think outside the box, but please ensure your suggestions respect existing trademarks, are practical and make sense for the product. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday April 9th at 12:00 pm EDT

https://forms.gle/VYf7KykxbVGGi4oF8

Additionally, be prepared for future updates, such as the retirement of the current docker image and the introduction of a new one, or any necessary configuration changes to reflect the new branding - we will send out further updates when we have more to share on this.

Thank you for your understanding and participation in this exciting phase of our journey!

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This is something I've been trying to do reliably for years. I can stream anything I want easily with VLC or even just Chrome itself but I can't get subs to work. I was able to make it work for a long time using a Chrome app called "videostream" but it now no longer works correctly on my system. It's a bit confusing to me but it kind of looks from what I have read that Plex can apparently handle this? Most references to the idea seem to be for later chromecast versions but mine's a 1st gen I bought in 2014. Could I use Plex to stream local media with separate or embedded srt files to my chromecast ?

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Over night, Plex has decided that it can't see any of my library files for movies and TV shows. They were fine before, they have been for years. Only music is unaffected.

I get a message saying "movies is empty. Expecting more? Visit the manage libraries page"

I've tried creating a new library pointing to the same directory, but that one shows the same error in the end.

Had a look on the forums, but not found anything relevant

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In January and February I had curated some playlists and shared them with friends and we watched them together via Watch Together. There was previously an option to Grant Access to the playlist, and after granting access, you could click Watch Together and start a watch party.

However, sometime in the last few weeks this option has disappeared in playlists, and now I am restricted to granting access, but not being able to watch together.

Really the only people who have access to my server is my partner and three friends. This has been a huge bummer, because I was curating old shows complete with old commercials in between.

If anyone has info on why this changed, I'd love to have an understanding, because the change kind of blows...

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Hello!

Here is my current setup and what I am looking for from my next one:

Currently have a Nvdia Shield with a 4 and 8 TB HDDs attached to it directly. So far this has worked well for 2-3 remote streams of 1080p content.

I’m looking to upgrade to a Beelink off Amazon which would allow 3-4 4K streams and a HD enclosure that would allow me to attach my external HDDs and start a NAS. Please advise on how to proceed from here.

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I have a few shows like the Daily Show I'll sometimes watch the monologue but not the full episode.

Plex has a setting to "Keep unwatched episodes" which will delete never-watched episodes, and another to "delete X days after viewing" for fully-watched episodes. But if an episode is partially watched, neither applies and it just sits there.

This seems like a weird oversight and I am wondering if there's a setting I'm missing. I can't be the first person who wants "delete 7 days after adding regardless of anything else"

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