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Yesterday I was singing the praises of #Jellyfin with someone in my life and they went: "Sounds great. It's a pity it cannot be connected to Google Drive or iCloud".

Fedi friends, this sentence sent actual shivers down my spine. I have no poker face and I may have even blurted out "ew why?" Then I said: "you know that the cloud is basically someone else's computer, right?"

So yes, I'm a certified Fediverse person now (in case there were any doubts).

And I just installed Jellyfin YAY 🥳

DarkAthena 💙🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻💫

@DarkAthena@beige.party replied · last week

@_elena @lisamelton Jellyfin is on my to-do list!

Daniel de Kay

@daniel@friendica.tangoverse.org replied · last week

@_elena Self hosting is great, but FOSS is the source of a lot of that greatness.

jeremiah

@jeremiah@tldr.nettime.org replied · last week

@_elena "ew why" such a devastating response.

DJ-Bauer

@dbauer@social.caserio.de replied · last week

@_elena
Just watch yourself buying more drives at last next year because you collected to much content :D

Davide Eynard (+mala)

@mala@fosstodon.org replied · last week

@_elena JellyFin rocks! My setup is JellyFin and Tailscale on my home server, JellyFin app (+ Finamp or Monet for music) on mobile devices

Seth of the Fediverse

@phillycodehound@indieweb.social replied · last week

@_elena Gonna check this thing out! Thanks for the recommending it!

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@phillycodehound my pleasure, Seth!

And I just discovered https://www.audiobookshelf.org which is great for audio books. They are both available via @yunohost

Trezzer (aka Helvedeshunden)

@trezzer@social.linux.pizza replied · last week

@_elena I actually use a mounted folder from Filen.io to play music videos from. The same COULD be done with other cloud drives, but I’m not doing it as a backup solution. Just as an easy way of getting to my little collection of videos whether I have Jellyfin nearby or not. Anything that lets you mount a cloud drive locally can do the same thing, but as has been pointed out already, it is expensive and impractical for movie collections.

Sophie

@labellaragassa@exquisite.social replied · last week

@_elena oooh, what was your main reason to go to Jellyfin, and not Emby or Plex (if I may ask)?

Fluffy Kitty Cat

@fluffykittycat@furry.engineer replied · last week

@labellaragassa @_elena fully FOSS and local

MathGon

@MathGon@mastodon.xyz replied · last week

@_elena I'm interested to share my instance with you, especially because I'm looking for more italian movies ;)

Sebastian

@bstn@social.lol replied · last week

@_elena another new solution whom I met thanks to you. Thank you for your curiosity. 😁

PhillyFan

@gjholmes@mastodon.social replied · last week

@_elena Saw this article yesterday and it was an eye opener how much personal data streaming platforms share with 3rd parties. Even more reason to try Jellyfin.

https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/these-20-apps-are-watching-you#

Table of the top 20 apps sharing up to 68% of personal data with 3rd parties.

Kotking

@Kotking@mastodon.social replied · last week

@_elena Got HDD for my old comp month ago, put Yunohost and Jellyfin and few other things like Libretranslate.
Jellyfin is really nice and having smart tv means I can leave my pc to rest while watching preloaded stuff from my personal server at home or using guests smart tv or just on phone. Same goes to sharing with my family members.
I had experience setting up Freebsd but didn't expect yunohost be so simple, so thanks for shout out months earlier!

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@Kotking I'm so pleased to hear this! and yes @yunohost is THE BEST 🏆 ✨

Fred Rocha

@john_fisherman@mastodon.social replied · last week

@_elena keep up the good evangelisation! What's your use case for Jellyfin? Thinking of deploying it at some point.

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@john_fisherman freedom from the tyranny of streaming services! and to resurrect my music library which has been languishing on an external drive since iTunes went bust

Fred Rocha

@john_fisherman@mastodon.social replied · last week

@_elena I read ya! SO MANY people wanting to do that, it's great news. It would be awesome to have a simple guide for noobs, somewhere, with nerds like us to assist the transition. Ah, the internet!

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@john_fisherman I literally just installed it, but maybe once I master it I will write a guide for non-techies (like myself)

Fred Rocha

@john_fisherman@mastodon.social replied · last week

@_elena that, or simply share a good one that is already written. This seems like the kind of thing that would work really nicely on a Wiki-kind of collaborative effort.

leberschnitzel

@leberschnitzel@existiert.ch replied · last week

@_elena technically you could mount a gdrive, but what would be the reason to have it connected to gdrive or icloud?

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@leberschnitzel they said "to have a backup in case you lose the data on your drive"...

to which I responded that I can regularly sync folders to a backup drive using Carbon Copy Cloner...

Simply Simon

@Salty@mastodon.nz replied · last week

@_elena @leberschnitzel Yes, I have a 12TB HDD in a USB-C external case that I backup to and then keep in my locker at work.

leberschnitzel

@leberschnitzel@existiert.ch replied · last week

@_elena yeah it's not a backup if you use it as source, than it's just the source

Also if they watch copyrighted media I really hope they don't put it in the cloud...

Daniël Franke :panheart:

@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu replied · last week

@_elena Welcome, switched to Jellyfin from Plex when they started sending "fun" mails of what people were watching on plex to their contacts. Making it very obvious that they track whatever you watch. Jellyfin is great, hope you enjoy it as much as I have. :)

David Peach 🍑

@peach@phpc.social replied · last week

@_elena Jellyfin's great isn't it?

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@peach the best!!! I'm so excited about resurrecting my music library (which has been languishing on an external HD)

Luca Sironi

@luca@sironi.tk replied · last week

@_elena @peach

Jellyfin is awesome for movies, and quite ok for music.

If you care about gapless audio between tracks, on android you can use finamp client

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@luca grazie Luca!

David Peach 🍑

@peach@phpc.social replied · last week

@_elena I thankfully kept all my old CDs - I need to get them digitized and do the same I think.

IrishMASMS

@Irishmasms@defcon.social replied · 7 days ago

@peach @_elena I have 4,500ish CDs that I'm slowly ripping to the collection

The CD drive I was using was dying, so I have a bunch of tips with glitches that I need to find and redo first 🤦‍♂️

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social replied · last week

@MattMerk Thank YOU Matthew! Your message made my day 😊 and yes Jellyfin truly rocks!

I also just discovered #audiobookshelf today, which does the same but for audiobooks. I will definitely install it soon…

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