Selfhosted

mpd server. Although mainly, so I can use the beautifully named ncmpdcpp client

FinAmp and its beta rewrite don’t really come close to PlexAmp in terms of functionally or polish, but if anyone switched from Plex to Jellyfin and wants a nice aesthetic music player app Discrete has done the job for me. It’s essentially an Apple Music clone so it looks nice and navigates well.

Does Volumio suit your needs? I haven't used Plex audio to compare

If anyone goes with finamp, sign up for the test version as it's UI is significantly better than stable.

If you can spin up a podman container, you can use a caddyfile. Hell, if you can nano and read, you can set uo a caddyfile.

There are literaly zero limitations by Jellyfin to remotely access your media. You are free to access your instance in any way you want. Fuck plex

But Jellyfin! It solves all your problems, you don’t have to pay for it (because fuck paying for software of any type even if it provides you some value), and did I mention Jellyfin‽

Why aren’t you using it yet? Are you a plex sympathizer? Get outta here with that!

What?

I don’t care if you have a good use case for using plex / Emby / Kodi / VLC / WMC / etc; you will assimilate and use Jellyifn!

JELLYFIN!!!!!11!1!1!1!1!. /s

You're right, I missed that.

I personally use a reverse proxy and Wireguard setup to access remotely.

I would only ever buy new HDDs tbh. But also, I bought a stack of 8TB HDDs in 2023 for €180 a piece and those same models are now €300... Thanks, Obama.

Anyway, I have 4 of those, 1 is parity, so 24TB of actual space. I started with a 2TB collection from my laptop harddrive and I'm now at 7TB used. I used to be more cautious with my space and I still have my *arrs set to stingy profiles now, to make downloads faster, but I also download and keep a lot more.

I do sometimes go through and delete stuff that I won't watch (either watched and didn't like or never watched). But that's more so I won't get tempted to watch it than for the space currently.

6 x 4 TB HDDs, got them used for $40 each

3 x 16Tb Seagate disks. One is for parity. So around 29Tb of space. Got them used about 2 years ago.

I have a 5 TB NAS (technically 4x2 TB of SSDs in RAID5, plus float space for backups of my servers), but it's shared for music, video, books and audiobooks, and retro game ROMs, plus other necessities (personal documents and such). Those disks were $600 at the time total, $150 each in 2024. Now would cost $2k ($500 each), it's insane.

I mostly enjoy older stuff, and don't bother with 4k. I let the TV upscale it, don't really care. Looks like I've got about 1.5 TB worth of video (movies, TV, and anime) at the moment, plus another 1.4 TB of music.

If I need to, I can add some additional storage via dual NVMe slots on the NAS, but I don't think it's currently worth it at today's prices. I still have a bit over 1 TB free, will keep it that way likely.

80TB array here. I've recently started using Maintainerr to delete things my friends and family request via seerr if it goes unwatched. I deleted over 15TB of things that was requested but never watched, a lot of entire shows of multiple seasons where someone only watched 2 episodes. (this was years of request history it ran over)

It was that or spending money on more 20TB drives and I just don't have it in me to spend that money with current prices.