didn't take me long to go from 2tb being a lot to 100tb being not enough.
Jesus, I'm struggling to fill my 24TB already; I have no idea how I'd fill 100TB
When the time comes for them to watch, they have their own version of our favorites - remake or remastered, adaptations or whole different series.
Now the collection is for the dads' nostalgia.
I think toy stories span from 1995 to 2019 (over 2 decades). If someone born 1990, ther is a chance that his child could also share the same enthusiasm about the toy story.
I was born in 80s and I was thinking about little mermaid, beauty and the beast, snow white, tom and Jerry, Hercules, etc.
I am not against the collecting.
I myself have a collection for my sons. But I couldn't introduce my favorites to them. The collection will be of value when they are exposed to the current ones and they want to backtrack.
It is just my frustration written as comment to this post.
Maybe a dumb question, but how is this better than having your files on a nas? I have a nas and just play my media files from there on my tv and laptop. What do I get from having jellyfin?
A slick interface with nice title cards and pictures, feels like your own personal streaming service with no drawback
It keeps track of which files you've played (e.g. to automatically pick the next episode in a series), it automatically downloads metadata and cover art so you have a nice browsing interface, it manages multiple profiles so that e.g. you can limit your kids' access to only G and TV-Y or filter out genres a user doesn't like, it lets you set parental controls to limit the amount of time watched in a day (or disable it at certain times of day), etc.
I use both plex and jellyfin and my files are on a nas. Previously truenas but now synology. I just mount my collection over smb to my Intel nuc with quick sync so that Plex/jellyfin can provide me and my friends a slick UI as well as transcoding (can store stuff in hevc, flac, 5.1 or 7.1 dts hd ma and not worry about codec support on each device), a nice web player with subtitles /audio track selection, and nice apps on every device to access the collection.
But yeah NAS and jellyfin aren't mutually exclusive, many people use them together.
I have a small 1tb collection ..love jellyfin and it's UI but I miss kodi when it comes to scrapping metadata and playing all formats ...I use jellyfin mostly because of its ui and because my crappy TV can't handle kodi very well
There's a large possibility that your kids will be apathetic towards the media that you watch now. When's the last time you listened to a song or watched tv from the 50?
(I can hear you typing right now; yes, I myself even watch the Adams Family and listen to psychedelic rock every now and again, but that's not typical.)
