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Plex / NAS / Media Server?

NorCalAthlete said:
Guess it's a good thing I procrastinated and didn't jump on board following you ��
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I got a brand new version of it and it's the only version that is having issues with this firmware cycle.

I bought more than I need in case I choose to use it differently in the future but now I'm questioning it. Damnit
 
How do I get about 400 CDs ripped to a HD as quick and painless as possible? Ain't nobody got time to rip one by one.
 
Reli said:
This is the only sentence in this thread I understood. :laughing
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:laughing - just looking to go off of someone else's paid service and host my own cloud at home. It's surprisingly simple

wazzuFreddo said:
How do I get about 400 CDs ripped to a HD as quick and painless as possible? Ain't nobody got time to rip one by one.
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you will have to invest in hardware as Pete suggests

Synology got back to me, they are shipping me a new one at no costs.
 
tzrider said:
Nice. You can't even SSH to the current one?
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it won't even boot up

cycle power and I just get a blinking blue power light (which indicates MOBO isn't communicating)

I was days away from cracking the case and doing a RAM upgrade - I went with this specific model since RAM is SO-DIMM instead of soldered in the chipset - this would have voided my warranty.

:laughing I learned that I now have to wait a year, for the warranty to expire, until I do any mods
 
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http://www.kaleidescape.com/

DISC VAULT
HANDS-FREE ACCESS TO UP TO 320 DVDS, BLU-RAY DISCS, OR CDS
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15k though.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
I use a Mac Mini running Plex and multiple external hard drives. I have like 800+ movies
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yeah and I debated heavily going this route but the mini lacks some of the complexity I'm looking for in the long run. I'm not intending to use this to serve movie content. I wanted it for audio and for many users. I also need it to host a few websites and a few shopping carts, while managing an IMS/CMS
 
I looked into NAS, and ended up deciding to just attach a hard drive to a gigabit AC router and play all of the media through my laptop and phone rather than a media center built into the NAS. It was cheaper and one less OS to learn. In my case that means running it through iTunes library (which I hate) but it would be even easier and cleaner on a PC with any of the readily available media apps.

The downside is that someone else can't just walk into my apartment and access it to play music, but I'm single and live in a studio so that's not a problem. And even that could be solved by making my iTunes library public so anyone on my network could play it from their own phone or laptop.
 
Yakoo752 said:
yeah and I debated heavily going this route but the mini lacks some of the complexity I'm looking for in the long run. I'm not intending to use this to serve movie content. I wanted it for audio and for many users. I also need it to host a few websites and a few shopping carts, while managing an IMS/CMS
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What about Kodi? https://kodi.tv/

I use it on a rasberry pie 3 and a laptop which run windows 10. I have a $10 bluetooth keypad, small (hand).

It handles multi accounts.
 
Andy hit the nail on the head with Sonos. If you want to get really into it, Sonos can also be setup and integrated with your home automation. For example, my father had the Sonos setup in conjunction with his Control4 system to start playing music from mom's favorite Pandora station as soon as the front door unlocked with mom's keypad number. Pretty cool stuff!

+1 Would recommend Sonos :thumbup
 
amazighlol said:
What about Kodi? https://kodi.tv/

I use it on a rasberry pie 3 and a laptop which run windows 10. I have a $10 bluetooth keypad, small (hand).

It handles multi accounts.
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XBMC isn't a bad option but I've already bought in to synology because I wanted more than just a media server and didn't want to piecemeal things together.

I will be disabling the auto update feature to allow the firmware to bed moving forward
 
Yakoo, you seem to have researched the heck out of this topic. Curious why you went with the Synology and not a WD My Cloud Device? They seem to do the same thing...
 
Looks to me as if the WD is a subset of the Synology functionality. NAS features are probably similar, but beyond that, I didn't see that the WD can run web servers, databases, etc.
 
I was curious if the Synology was faster over internet, easier to search remotely, easier to sort remotely, things like that.
 
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