• TheCaconym [any]
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      1 year ago

      Jesus, I'm struggling to fill my 24TB already; I have no idea how I'd fill 100TB

  • tun@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

      • tun@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • tun@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • Barky@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      A slick interface with nice title cards and pictures, feels like your own personal streaming service with no drawback

    • grue@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Stephen304@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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

  • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    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.)