Yeah, as a big music fan I have always been disappointed in Embys music functionality. I followed the discussions around this on there site and I was a bit disappointed by the response. They were getting the same feedback around how bad it is and it should be revamped or even have a dedicated app just for music and they just dismissed it basically saying we’ll it can be something we may do later on but dont hold your breath and that they believe it works fine the way it is and dont agree it will help.

Luckily I really didnt care to use it for music anyway. I already had a Subsonic (now Navidrome) server for that. It would have been nice for a few things, but ultimately it was fine. The cool part is the android app Symfonium is the best music app I have ever used and it connects to all the servers to pull data. I obviously still use navidrome, but I could just pull from emby as well with it.

Dam thats what I thought. Emby has something similar but doesnt force you to use it so I don’t.

Years ago I decided to go with Emby over Plex only because at the time plex didnt support kodi integration and I enjoyed using that at the time for my front-end user experience. Within 6 months they started supporting it and I was upset since I did want to go with plex. Lately I feel like I made the perfect decision. It’s gotta be close to 10 years now and I paid one $100 lifetime fee for Emby and still use it everyday along with some family and friends I gave access to. Also gotta remember I dont believe jellyfin was even an option at that time. I tried it not to long ago and although it was fine, I actually think I liked emby a little more.

As for the remote access, how do they block it? Do they not allow you to setup your own remote connection that does not involve plex? Thats how I do it, I do not use emby connect to make it easier to go through them I just setup my own domain, use ddns, and configure the ports I want exposed and thats it. If plex doesnt allow that then thats already crazy, if they do and even thats now blocked then thats even crazier.

Emby may be simpler, and i heard about plex having a music AI feature that I was actually jealous of, but overall it just works and not paying anything in forever will always be my preferred method over awful monthly subscriptions anyday.

Lol dont complain to much. You could be like me were i only have 1 option and although they just now released fiber earlier this year, im not paying the price for it. I’ve been stuck on 200mbps down and 30mbps up for years now and I’m paying as much if not more than people a few towns over that get 1gb. Also my ISP has no plan that allows over that upload speed no matter what plan you pick.

“Well I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed and ready, and everything else, and, you know, no men anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it, you know, I’m inspecting, I want to make sure everything is good.

“You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone ok?’ You know they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that”.

-Trump

As someone who only used the stock synology app and has always wanted to try something else, what features and things does this do better? I am close to trying it out just to see. Im sure it will solve my 1 big issue where I can’t control the location of photos that default to my application storage, which is pretty small, instead of my actual storage array.

Now I am confused. Those are not fiber cables. They are regular ethernet ones. No light is in them. If you’re talking about fiber in general, then that would make more sense.

Ok, I figured, but you never know.

Wait really? I’ve never heard this before. How or why does this matter at all?

I think the first episode of this season’s south park did the same thing.

When I started my first real job in 2006, we had vending machines where everything was like .50 cents or .75 cents tops. I think that was over by around 2010. The dollar and $1.25 stayed for like 8 years after that. Now everything is $2 or more. Just for reference, I’ve been at the same job the entire time.

The one thing I keep wondering is, has anyone asked him for the documentation that proves this? All I keep seeing is he makes a statement, and every news place mimicks what he says and then says nobody agrees with this. So where are the documents and trials and everything else needed to even come to this conclusion? It makes no sense how all these people just speak and never back any of it up, and nobody ever questions it or the few that do just get yelled at or not given an actual answer. It’s the most frustrating thing about this past year, and I keep waiting for people to tell them no and just call bullshit.

It’s John Economos, from Peacemaker!

I use navidrome for hosting my music but for your ask I was also thinking funkwhale is exactly the thing you were asking for.

https://www.peacocktv.com/teacher

I had hulu live tv until a year ago. They raised the hell out of those prices so much I couldn’t keep it. Instead I brought 1 year of just hulu for the same price as 1 month of live. Just ran out and told them nah. The only media subscription I have is peacock with a teacher’s discount so my wife can still watch the news and snl live. I am done with all that stuff, and it’s almost crazy that I pay less than my parents did on TV. About the only thing that costs less now for me.

Yeah, but we always lower the bar for them, so it’s ok.

Sorry you still have to use it.

Thankfully, we never lost data, but we have had the controller die a few times through the years on a few servers before. Thankfully we had great support and the part was same day delivered to us to replace and the 2nd time was a Dell server which we also get the part same day and a tech to come replace it for us.

We avoided buying servers with this going forward. At this point, we really only have VM’s and only a handful of physical servers anymore, so it’s not even a concern.

I just use a domain name through name cheap, which includes ddns. I cant think of anything else that I do at home that isn’t taken care of locally.