catloaf

I don’t think jellyfin does any tagging for you. Pretty sure you can edit it, but it’s not automatic. I use lidarr and mp3tag for that. Maybe musicbrainz picard on a rare occasion, if I’ve got a bunch of files that need to be identified first.

Yup. And letting them collect data on what goes through their service is the cost.

Yeah, but then you’re not self-hosting, you’re paying or using their free services to manage that for you.

I dropped my library in, Jellyfin indexed it and streamed first try. What didn’t work for you?

How do I do that with my TV?

When did you check? I’ve been using it that way for over a year.

You can cast jellyfin to any receiver. I use a Chromecast.

Hearing people think they need an app just to use their TV as a TV is painful.

Jellyfin is a no-brainer. Publishing services on the Internet is complex.

Okay so not critical, just mildly inconvenient if lost.

I would just keep one copy in RAID, and for the most important stuff a second copy locally or in the cloud. Yes, RAID is not backup, but a disk failure is probably the most likely failure scenario. Corruption is the second most likely.

Or a house fire, or flood, or lightning strike, or theft. Or just plain fat fingering something and deleting it all.

If you really mean life-or-death critical, yeah, 3-2-1 is the starting point.

3-2-1?

Great, so now the unauthenticated APIs are proxied instead of accessed directly. That changes nothing, it is still vulnerable.

They also need to run a VPN client.

Because you’re not putting bare jellyfin on the internet, right? You shouldn’t be doing that for most services in the first place, but doubly so for something that has a bunch of APIs that require no authentication: github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

I didn’t know why anyone who has Plex would pay for a pass. The whole time I used it, I never felt any need for additional features.

365 and G Suite educational licenses are significantly cheaper than running Exchange. Almost everywhere switched over years ago.

They absolutely won’t have better reach. Mastodon is significantly smaller than both Twitter and Bluesky.