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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by shp0ngle on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:58AM (#25443256)
Only tangentially related, but I recently tried Plex to see what the fuzz is about, and the UX is horrible. Both on the smart TV side and on the PC side.

It always takes me forever to find out anything in the GUI and I can never find out how to do the simple things I want - that is - put bunch of files into one end and watch them on smart TV on the other end.

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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by jabroni_salad on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:09AM (#25443428)
It used to be a lot better. Over the past year they started to prioritize internet content, and your personal server is under a submenu instead of front & center.

I've been running Jellyfin on the side. It isn't perfect (yet!) but it matches up with what I want, which is something that can play files on my network with a TV Remote-friendly interface.

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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by alfyboy on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:14AM (#25443483)
+1 for jellyfin. It is a lot of work going on and 10.7 which will be launching soon will bring a lot of more nice features.

Also, SyncPlay is sweet!

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