![]() ![]() Also it is broken with ISO's which is one of my major use cases. I personally use KODI as I do not need that particular streaming feature. But it is sort of finicky to setup correctly. You can get the same effect with KODI and using a DB like mysql or mariadb. Also the centrally managed metadata is nice when you have more than one client. If I remember correctly there were a lot of clients also for TV's which have absolute rubbish CPU power and no local storage (for holding metadata). ![]() Say a VPN to your phone, or a friends house who has crappy internet. It is a nice feature for low bandwidth applications. In some cases they let you stream it thru a web client (which is kinda cool). Jellyfin is similar with its ability to transcode and stream that to a client. Picking data from a CIFS is basic XBMC/KODI/Plex functionality and has been in there for a long time going back to the original xbox days. In all ways KODI is better except in that use case. That is the one killer feature Plex has over KODI. Then stream it to a secondary plex client. Plex can act as a 'head unit' and do format transform and metadata management. I think at some level its still greenwashing the truly awful world of A&R/IPR on music, but if anyone has to get payola here, it might as well be musicians. ![]() I don't like these music rental schemes, I like to own my CDs and rip but for exploration, finding what you don't know, its really useful and unlike some of the other choices, its owned by musos. Jellyfin is another variant of the same codebase (forked) plexamp is available when you take subscription, and periodically plex offer lifetime buy deals, which I leapt on. I keep the discs behind them on the shelves just in case but I haven't opened a CD case in nearly a decade. This is my music, on my disks, under my control. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net. ![]()
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