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One of my users was downloading transcoded movies for "his old iPad".
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I've found that the downloading part works ok, but then the files are unplayable, this is on a new iPad. I use infuse instead for downloading.
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Feb 15, 2024 10:37
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I was able to download and playback videos just fine on my M2 MBA last week.
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Feb 15, 2024 14:35
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I canceled a couple shows that were causing problems and now everything is coming in. Playback... we'll see. Seems like it can work, and then it'll decide, nope, that's not going to work, so it refuses to even try again. I'm running the Android app on a Chromebook, and the Chrome file browser lets you poke around in the filesystem parts that for some reason either weren't available in Android, or I was too dumb to find. So that's nice, when Plex decides it's going to refuse to play something, I've got other options. I may even be able to just move it to another directory and have Plex play it as a "local file" instead of a "download". But right now my passion project is sorting out what's special about the files that lodge themselves in the download queue and prevent anything at all from happening.
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Feb 15, 2024 17:31
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cruft posted:I'll report back with any additional findings! I was wrong. There is nothing about the file itself jamming the download queue: removing and re-adding the same download made it come in just fine. So I guess that leaves me with "turn it off and back on" problem solving. Same as it ever was.
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Just checked the release notes of the latest upgrade and it's a lot. First off:Plex posted:(PLEASE NOTE) This version makes changes to the database which will make it compatible only with server versions 1.31.2 or higher (released March 14). You will not be able to use your database on Plex Media Server versions lower than this after this update. Please also be patient when updating to this version if you have a very large database and allow the upgrade process to finish. Worthwhile to make a quick database backup prior to doing the upgrade just in case. Other notable things, for me at least: "Plex posted:(Music) Support ID3v2.4 null-separated tags for genres and release type (#14653) Hoping the improved ID3 support helps with the issues Plex has identifying music, especially after tags get updated. Also, now Tautulli wont lie to me when I mark something as watched!
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Feb 16, 2024 18:09
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I'm running into an issue with my Plex server where it's not scanning my library and adding titles any more. I recently added Dune and three TV series, each of which are 20+GB. I figured it was an issue with size so I kept scanning but after a few hours it still won't add to my dashboard. I then thought it might be an issue with the format of the series, but they're all H264 or H265 and I've got other similarly formatted titles that were added without issue. Does anyone know what it might be? I can't tell if it's just the sheer size of the titles that takes a good long while to add to the library, or if it's a codec / format issue or what. I'm able to right click and cast these files directly to my TV.
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Feb 17, 2024 10:43
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Is the server running on Linux? If so, I'd say it's a permissions issue. I get those once in awhile. I've also moved the directories out, did a manual scan and then back in and scan again.
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Feb 17, 2024 11:50
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Taking them out, scanning, and putting them back in fixed it. Weird... Running on my regular old Microsoft PC.
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Feb 17, 2024 12:14
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Yeah, I'm not sure why it does it sometimes but that always seems to be fix if it isn't permissions.
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Feb 17, 2024 12:46
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All the TV series have shown up on the dashboard, but Dune (for whatever reason) has remained hidden and the only way I can access it to play is by searching for it.
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Feb 17, 2024 13:40
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Is it in a collection and you have things in collections hidden? Does it appear when you sort?
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Feb 17, 2024 14:01
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When this happens to me it's usually the client machine that isn't refreshing or has something cached. The Plex Dance usually fixes it.
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Feb 17, 2024 17:16
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It sounds like you have everything on a single PC, but something to keep in mind is different OS's/file systems have different ways of reporting 'hey something changed' to Plex. All of my stuff is in a NAS, and that won't ping Plex in realtime when files are added so I either have to manually scan or wait until a scheduled scan kicks off to see them in the library.
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Feb 17, 2024 20:42
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Takes No Damage posted:It sounds like you have everything on a single PC, but something to keep in mind is different OS's/file systems have different ways of reporting 'hey something changed' to Plex. All of my stuff is in a NAS, and that won't ping Plex in realtime when files are added so I either have to manually scan or wait until a scheduled scan kicks off to see them in the library. If you're using sonarr/radarr this works pretty well: https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan
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Feb 17, 2024 20:54
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Plex Dance fixed it but now everything is showing as recently added 
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Feb 17, 2024 21:07
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Well I had a PSU failure and it took my two media drives with it. Neither are visible in windows or BIOS and don't work or even spin up when connected to an external drive. Sucks but thankfully it's all just media and therefore nothing irreplaceable. I've replaced the two 4TB drives with two 8TB drives and I guess I'll begin the process of Building Back Better. I can't decide if I should just wipe my Plex Library completely and start fresh or if it's better to hang on to the database so that I'll still have watch history for anything I decide is worth grabbing again. I guess I should basically just wipe my *arrs and start over. (lol at "wipe my *arrs")
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Feb 23, 2024 22:23
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Why wipe the arrs at all? Just redownload everything
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Feb 24, 2024 03:05
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kri kri posted:Why wipe the arrs at all? Just redownload everything I had a lot of junk on there, I'd rather just start fresh and be intentional about what I want.
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Feb 24, 2024 04:42
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I'm wondering how to name and organize made for TV movie series. My sister loves those Hallmark Channel mysteries. A few years ago, TVDB had them organized as TV shows. Each series was listed as one season, and the various movies for each series were listed as separate episodes. However, TVDB seems to have changed things and now each movie in each series is listed as a stand alone movie. Previously, I'd organize them something like this: code:I noticed that TVDB now has "lists" for each of the series with the individual movies: https://thetvdb.com/lists/matchmaker-mysteries So the previous organization strategy doesn't work. Does anyone have any idea how to organize these without having like 50 separate Hallmark movies floating around? I really liked the idea of having them organized like TV show episodes but I don't know if that's possible anymore. Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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Feb 24, 2024 07:34
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Put in movies library, add to a collection for them, then mark as hide movies outside of collection.
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Feb 24, 2024 07:42
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EL BROMANCE posted:Put in movies library, add to a collection for them, then mark as hide movies outside of collection. 
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Feb 24, 2024 08:15
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double post
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I can't recall the option name, but Plex keeps a copy of your watch status and will apply it to any new library. So if I've a movie or show is marked as watched in the old library, it should be marked was watched in the new one. Might take a while to sync but it should work.
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Feb 24, 2024 18:09
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I'm pretty sure that goes away with some (perhaps weekly?) process like clean bundles if the show(s) don't exist anymore. So you need to get the library repopulated quickly enough or figure out which maintenance thing to turn off. At least that's how it used to be - with sync everywhere it may no longer be the case, but it's worth looking into.
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Feb 24, 2024 18:14
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EL BROMANCE posted:Put in movies library, add to a collection for them, then mark as hide movies outside of collection.
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Feb 25, 2024 08:56
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So now having suffered catastrophic data loss do you guys use any cloud backup solutions? Or in-house backup solutions? I lost two drives at once in the same machine so I think any backup would ideally be on a separate machine somewhere else in the house. I think I may have lost my MP3 collection which kinda sucks since I had some rips of my friends' bands' CDs from the 2000s that I won't be able to find again
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Feb 25, 2024 16:08
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Has anyone had issues with plex since updating their server to 1.40.0.7998? I went from playing everything just fine to having tons of playback issues, the most common saying my connection isn't strong enough for playback and not even starting movies as a result, even though I'm playing stuff on my local network. Browser playback is plagued with buffering and quality drops.
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Feb 25, 2024 16:55
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prom candy posted:So now having suffered catastrophic data loss do you guys use any cloud backup solutions? Or in-house backup solutions? I lost two drives at once in the same machine so I think any backup would ideally be on a separate machine somewhere else in the house. drat, that sucks. Cloud-wise, there's been a bit of a crunch so offerings aren't as generous as they were a few years ago, including for businesses with lots of money to spend. Basically once you start wanting more than around 5 terabytes of storage, costs start to become a bit high for personal use, e.g. Backblaze is the most cost-effective offering but for, say, 50 terabytes of cloud storage, you're looking at $300us a month. But you might be able to leverage the 5tb for music only, something like that. For personal storage of up to around 140tb of storage, I think the "safest" solution is to get a NAS of some form that lets you put whatever OS you want onto it, and then buy a license for UnRAID. UnRAID is unique in that, while it gives you redundancy, it's not a striped RAID solution, so while performance isn't as high, if something catastrophic happened you wouldn't have to rebuild the RAID, or lose 100% of your data for losing some but not all of your drives. Basically, the drives that aren't your parity drives just have loose files on a Linux partition, and if you were really in a bind you could just grab a drive, get a SATA to USB adapter and copy data over using any Linux or other OS letting you read XFS. I'm actually in the process of setting this up now since Google gave me an ultimatum to get rid of data from my once-unlimited cloud storage or face deletion.
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The screwed the pooch in the last update or two for most of the desktop players so I wouldn’t be surprised if what you’re seeing is related.
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Mr. Apollo posted:This did exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks. I’m glad! It’s the key to having a collection that spirals out of control without making the main library view a nightmare to navigate.
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prom candy posted:So now having suffered catastrophic data loss do you guys use any cloud backup solutions? Or in-house backup solutions? I lost two drives at once in the same machine so I think any backup would ideally be on a separate machine somewhere else in the house. How much data did you have? It might be worth just getting an external USB drive and back your stuff up to it each month/week/year. Cloud backup will be slow and expensive. Getting a NAS could be challenging (unless you're familiar with them and you could still loose data if you choose the wrong RAID options. univbee posted:drat, that sucks. Then there is this. But Unraid licensing is about to change so act fast.
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prom candy posted:So now having suffered catastrophic data loss do you guys use any cloud backup solutions? Or in-house backup solutions? I lost two drives at once in the same machine so I think any backup would ideally be on a separate machine somewhere else in the house. I bought a hot-pluggable USB hard drive, wrote a script to back up the stuff I care about and skip the stuff I don't, and put it on the hard drive. Whenever I think to, I plug the drive in and run the script. One day I'll get a new second USB hard drive to replace the one that died.
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I lost about 6TB, and I replaced the two 4TB drives that died with two new 8TB drives so I guess I'll theoretically need to be able to back up 16TB. Looks like a 16TB external is fairly affordable relative to paying monthly fees for the rest of time so that'll be the way to go it looks like. Thanks! Oh and thankfully I found a backup of my music so I'm happy. It also had itunes backups of my phone from like 10 years ago, just in case.
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The way to go isn't worrying about backing up your entire collection - doing that you're either paying an exorbitant amount of money for someone else's storage, or you're doubling your own storage costs to build a second copy. Just back up the photos and music and things you can't recover by other means. Then you're probably looking at an amount of storage that you can duplicate across the free or lowest paid tiers of Google/OneDrive/Dropbox/etc for a lot less than the cost of a 16TB drive that's just as vulnerable as your main array to a ransomware attack or a fire. And while no, you can't strictly depend on any of the big cloud providers to offer you 100% reliability, that's why you don't just trust one.
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Oh yeah I have my photos backed up in like 4 places and I'll be backing up my music collection more carefully now too. I thought I had copies of it on both my computers but it was just on one. It was just kind of a pain to lose my media collection. Although at the same time it has made me think about what I actually want to have in that collection.
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prom candy posted:So now having suffered catastrophic data loss do you guys use any cloud backup solutions? Or in-house backup solutions? I lost two drives at once in the same machine so I think any backup would ideally be on a separate machine somewhere else in the house. To avoid data loss employee the 3-2-1 System: 3 copies of your data, 2 local, 1 off site. For something (probably) relatively small like MP3s B2 Backblaze should only run you a few bux a month. I've got a pretty extensive music collection, a lot of it in FLAC, and it's still "just" over 2.5 TB. I've got 6.5 TB total with them for $1.28/day. And yeah the key was not trying to back up everything, just the stuff that is personal to you or that is actually rare.
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I back up everything but video to backblaze, and I have two 16tb easystores that I back everything up to. (Only 12tb capacity in my NAS right now.) one easystore is at a friends house, and I trade it out for a fresher backup every now and then.
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Feb 26, 2024 08:50
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Looks like my music collection is small enough to fit within my iCloud limits. Photos I have on two cloud services and 2 or 3 places locally. Everything else is replaceable I think.
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What's the best way, short of mkvmerge, to join together multiple episode files in Plex? The output of the Ren and Stimpy DVDs comes out to something like this:code:Non-working .plexmatch file: code:
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