Spotify...its grand and all (1 Viewer)

[ernesto]

the new feature where it has all the stuff from your streaming services indexed is great. makes life a lot simpler

can you pleasse explain this to me. i have a NAS somewhere with loads of old films on it and a netflix login from my sisters account. i am paying for spotify myself. i also have a roku running plex on the new tv.

potentially, how is plex going to make things better for me (i have zero MP3 library)?

 

[pete]

can you pleasse explain this to me. i have a NAS somewhere with loads of old films on it and a netflix login from my sisters account. i am paying for spotify myself. i also have a roku running plex on the new tv.

potentially, how is plex going to make things better for me (i have zero MP3 library)?

Just run a plex server (on the NAS
Itself? On a pc?) to index the NAS content, then tell it what streaming services you have access to, then point the plex client on the Roku at the plex server, and that’s about it.

 

[ernesto]

Just run a plex server (on the NAS
Itself? On a pc?) to index the NAS content, then tell it what streaming services you have access to, then point the plex client on the Roku at the plex server, and that’s about it.

ok, cool. i can do that.
and that does what exactly, how does it help me get new films n shit?

 

[pete]

ok, cool. i can do that.
and that does what exactly, how does it help me get new films n shit?

Plex is more about cataloguing and streaming what you already have access to, but it does have its own library of free to watch (and mostly crap) content available.

 

[ernesto]

Plex is more about cataloguing and streaming what you already have access to, but it does have its own library of free to watch (and mostly crap) content available.

I was hoping for something that shows You a selection of latest films and then auto streams from torrents. I've seen it done but I can't contact the person who's gaff I saw it in

 

[pete]

I was hoping for something that shows You a selection of latest films and then auto streams from torrents. I've seen it done but I can't contact the person who's gaff I saw it in

sounds like Popcorn Time?

be careful what you download & install

 

[ernesto]

sounds like Popcorn Time?

be careful what you download & install

might have been popcorn actually.

why, spyware? running on a small
mac server be ok surely

 

[pete]

running on a small
mac server be ok surely

The “Macs don’t get viruses” days are long gone.

 

[GO]

I was hoping for something that shows You a selection of latest films and then auto streams from torrents. I've seen it done but I can't contact the person who's gaff I saw it in

You want to get yerslf a bogey firestick with the iptv on it .. or if you're a bit more tech savy .. a real debrid account and Kodi

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music | Music | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lili Marlene]

‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music | Music | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com

Liz Pelly has been the best writer on this stuff for YEARS now

I'm often quite surprised how few people I know treat music as art, as something to be considered, as something that is a process of consideration itself.

 

[ernesto]

You want to get yerslf a bogey firestick with the iptv on it .. or if you're a bit more tech savy .. a real debrid account and Kodi

hows this working out??

do you have to pay up regularly to keep it working??

 

[GO]

hows this working out??

do you have to pay up regularly to keep it working??

Still going strong . Yearly payment

 

[ernesto]

Still going strong . Yearly payment

Cool! How much it cost? And what channel you gets?

 

[GO]

Cool! How much it cost? And what channel you gets?

......

 

[error type 11]

‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music | Music | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com

I've been using Navidrome that's mentioned in that article to run a streaming server from a Raspberry Pi in my hallway cabinet since last year. Works great. And definitely reduces the option paralysis that made making a decision on Spotify a long-winded affair.

 

[Anthony]

I'm trying to put into words why I think that article is a load of bollox. I bought a car, 2 years later I realised I still had legs.
They're blaming a service for they way they changed.

I dunno, there's just something off about the tone of the thing.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I thought it was a nonsense from the bit about scrolling playlists to find the perfect one for working in a bakery that morning on.

 

[Lili Marlene]

It has fundamentally changed the way people listen to music, and with it the entire rotten industry. It probably should have focused less on people who are into music to the point of making it or collecting it and more on the reality of most music listeners not being music nerds.

The car analogy is good, the cars themselves don't change much, altering the entire landscape of a country to suit a population that prefers driving does. The wants and needs of a few hikers are not important.

 

[egg_]

I'm trying to put into words why I think that article is a load of bollox. I bought a car, 2 years later I realised I still had legs.
They're blaming a service for they way they changed.

Haha fucking +1