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I tried out the new Discover and watchlist thing and it seems pretty cool? I would get a lot of use out of this if all my media didn't already fall off the back of a truck. An overview of what's available and what's new across all my streaming subscriptions that isn't littered with ads is really nice to have. Good feature and it's a perfect fit for Plex.
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acksplode posted:I tried out the new Discover and watchlist thing and it seems pretty cool? I would get a lot of use out of this if all my media didn't already fall off the back of a truck. An overview of what's available and what's new across all my streaming subscriptions that isn't littered with ads is really nice to have. Good feature and it's a perfect fit for Plex. Yeah, I hadn't realized until this thread that Apple was doing the same crap, junking up your screen with ads. I wonder if they're considering making Plex an Android app launcher. It would be like the Google TV / Fire TV / Apple TV app launcher experience, but without a ton of dumb ads.
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Apr 8, 2022 21:18
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acksplode posted:I tried out the new Discover and watchlist thing and it seems pretty cool? I would get a lot of use out of this if all my media didn't already fall off the back of a truck. An overview of what's available and what's new across all my streaming subscriptions that isn't littered with ads is really nice to have. Good feature and it's a perfect fit for Plex. Yeah, I used mdblist that hooks into trakt.tv to provide Sonarr with a rough filtering of 'hey everytime you see a new english language TV show that doesn't look like complete dogshit, grab the pilot for me thanks' but discover will help me see what's coming out even if I don't need to hook it into sonarr.
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Apr 8, 2022 21:29
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kri kri posted:At least its confined to the ATV app. I remapped my home button immediately when I got the appletv. I recently booted up my nvidia shield again, and holy poo poo that thing is infested with ads. And glacially slow compared to the ATV. It is absurd. Yeah, good thing installing a new launcher is easy. I notice shows on my watch list are in order by Service, not alphabetical. So Disney (ABCD) Netflix (ABCD) and so on. The Watchlist needs work and  for them opting in everyone to a BETA. If that's does indicate a sign of things to come.
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Apr 8, 2022 21:49
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cruft posted:Yeah, I hadn't realized until this thread that Apple was doing the same crap, junking up your screen with ads. The call of ad revenue is strong. If Discover takes off, I'm sure Plex will take money from companies to promote whatever dumb media they want.
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Apr 8, 2022 22:48
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univbee posted:Not Plex-specific but something I wanted to mention because the results behind it are pretty incredible. It's worth giving a couple of other models a try. Artemis is really good at taking wonky MPEG-2 and outputting something that looks like a low res bluray or HDTV rip. It just cleans it up without trying to over-paint hair and eyelashes etc. It's also quite a lot faster than Gaia. I use it on mediocre F1 archive footage to great effect.       Results can be black-magic for removing the blockies that destroy anything in motion in particular.
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Apr 9, 2022 19:39
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Huh, weird. I went to consolidate all my watch lists into Plex with the new Watchlist beta, and I can add everything except TV shows that are already in my library. I can add the show to the watchlist if I use the "more ways to watch" option, but it won't let me do it from my library page like it does with my movies. And if I go to the show in my watchlist after adding it that way, it won't show me that it's available in my library either (it'll show movies in my library that way though). It's not a big thing, I can always just go back and check my TV library page to see what I've got up next but that's weird.
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Apr 10, 2022 15:14
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kri kri posted:It's not bad design for Apple, they want you to purchase things and re-subscribe to services. I don't really use the Apple TV app at all, I just use the apps which are mostly Plex, Netflix, Disney Plus. Netflix refuses to tie its service into Apple TV app, so you have to use the app anyways. Anybody else finally dump Netflix? My Plex library is massive, and I have no issues subscribing to streaming services (We have access to almost every streaming service through friends and family account sharing), but Netflix just keeps jacking up their prices, 4K is extra, and most of their content is fluff or gets cancelled after a few seasons. The only thing I'll really miss is GBBO, which I can typically just watch through BBC anyways. Most of the media I'm watching nowadays comes from HBO, Disney+, or AppleTV+. Bonzo posted:Yeah, good thing installing a new launcher is easy. It's 2022 - Why would any b2c business bother investing in their QA team when they can roll out software updates to hundreds of thousands of users to do it for them?
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Gay Retard posted:Anybody else finally dump Netflix? My Plex library is massive, and I have no issues subscribing to streaming services (We have access to almost every streaming service through friends and family account sharing), but Netflix just keeps jacking up their prices, 4K is extra, and most of their content is fluff or gets cancelled after a few seasons. The only thing I'll really miss is GBBO, which I can typically just watch through BBC anyways. I would dump Netflix but my wife won't let me. I think they keep rolling enough true crime and standup shows through it so she stays interested. The selection is pretty bad whenever I go look. Heck, AppleTV+ has been crushing it lately with their shows, Severance, Foundation and Slow Horses are all good to great. I'd rather move from Netflix to Disney+, I think the kids would probably prefer that too.
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Apr 11, 2022 19:55
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Netflix is just not worth $20 a month. At this point I don't know if its worth $10 a month. They lost a huge amount of back catalog (Star Trek, The Office, MCU shows, etc) and now seem to be recycling Korean content, design shows, stuff no one else wants (branded as originals), and bizarre reality shows. Even their sci-fi stuff has fallen flat and they can't keep going back to Stranger Things. Disney is $130 a year and (in  at least) has Hulu content. CBC Gem is $5/month and has live TV plus some decent content. The UI is terrible though. Apple is $8 a month and has amazing exclusive content.
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Apr 11, 2022 20:23
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If my wife didn't fall asleep to Criminal Minds every night, I'd probably cancel Netflix. As it is, happy wife, happy life.
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Apr 11, 2022 20:55
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I figured that would be been pulled and up on Paramount+ by now.
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Apr 11, 2022 20:57
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Bonzo posted:I figured that would be been pulled and up on Paramount+ by now.
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Apr 11, 2022 21:21
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I'm really glad everybody was able to gut Netflix and we're back to Cable TV again. It was a real shame paying one low price to a single service for everything I wanted. Which, I suppose, is why we're all posting on the Plex thread.
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Apr 11, 2022 21:33
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Netflix lost Star Trek!?!?! I havent been able to watch much TV since I had my kid this year but was looking forward to working my way through all of Star Trek TNG. That sucks! If not for in-laws pilfering off my Netflix we'd probably get rid of it too. Sonarr/Radarr/Plex just make things a whole lot easier.
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Apr 11, 2022 21:39
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 , trust me. I did the same thing earlier this year and they can deal with it. “This isn’t worth the $20 a month to me and I’m cancelling the service. If you want to do a family plan or something let me know and we can see what we can do.”
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Apr 11, 2022 21:44
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cruft posted:I'm really glad everybody was able to gut Netflix and we're back to Cable TV again. It was a real shame paying one low price to a single service for everything I wanted. Yeah. There was a window there where I basically abandoned piracy since Netflix was solving The Cable TV Problem effectively enough and at the right price point. Then the license holders figured out how to run a website and the market got hosed again. Innovation!
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El Mero Mero posted:Yeah. There was a window there where I basically abandoned piracy since Netflix was solving The Cable TV Problem effectively enough and at the right price point. Then the license holders figured out how to run a website and the market got hosed again. Yeah basically the granulation of services has ended up costing me more to get less each year so gently caress it, back to 
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I'm paying ~$4/month for Netflix premium. Used a VPN to get rates from Turkey.  It's a bit of a hassle to do, but worth not spending $20+ a month for Netflix imo.
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Apr 11, 2022 23:00
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I thought they blocked VPNs? No one had Netflix in Canada until everyone started figure out the VPN so we could get US content. And I believe that is what caused the content owners to say, "gently caress it, want mine" and now we're back to cable. Pretty soon TimeWarner is going to just offer streaming sticks in place of cable boxes, just you watch.
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Apr 11, 2022 23:03
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Bonzo posted:I thought they blocked VPNs? No one had Netflix in Canada until everyone started figure out the VPN so we could get US content. Nope, works just fine for me. I only used the VPN to lock in the Turkish rates. After that, I just log into my account on whatever device and can play everything from the US catalog no problem. Billing is in TL + VAT, but gets converted. So total + VAT fees is 54.99 TL/month, which works out to just under $4/month USD.  From my bank transactions 
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Apr 11, 2022 23:07
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Bonzo posted:Pretty soon TimeWarner is going to just offer streaming sticks in place of cable boxes, just you watch. This is already the case. Comcast has something called an "X1 TV Box" that lets you watch Netflix, which is helpfully something you can buy through Comcast. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/netflix-package-faqs
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Apr 11, 2022 23:08
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I've got Spectrum/Charter and use an app to watch Live TV. Which I need to cancel because my promo rate expired.
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cruft posted:This is already the case. Comcast has something called an "X1 TV Box" that lets you watch Netflix, which is helpfully something you can buy through Comcast. Bell has Netflix and Crave baked into their Fibe boxes. With Apple looking at a subscription model for their hardware, I bet Comcast or similar will just rent you a smart TV for $120 a month on a 24 month lease and OH GOD THAT COULD HAPPEN!!?!? Apple+ has been running short ads for MLB games. Not sure of the pricing but its interesting to see how they run that.
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cruft posted:This is already the case. Comcast has something called an "X1 TV Box" that lets you watch Netflix, which is helpfully something you can buy through Comcast. My good friend asked me if he could get Plex working on one of those things. I laughed and ordered him a Google TV for him instead.
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Sky already do this in the UK, you can get their branded TV with a subscription which then removes the need for their satellite dish. I have not heard anything about whether or not the TV still functions if you stop subscribing since its basically a receiver box with a screen and speakers. They do a subscription bundle that includes Netflix now as well.Bonzo posted:Apple+ has been running short ads for MLB games. Not sure of the pricing but its interesting to see how they run that.
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Netflix charging $10/mo for Standard Def streams is criminal.
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With Plex the only thing I pay for it Youtube Premium since that'd be near impossible to get via Plex. I also get HBO Max free with my internet but I don't really use it. My girlfriend keeps up Netflix and Hulu for mostly trash reality tv shows and true crime stuff. I could probably get most/all of it on Plex if I really tried but she hasn't asked and I don't really feel like polluting my server with that junk.
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Apr 12, 2022 16:57
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Watchlist doesn't tell you when there's a new episode on streaming. You can to click into the season(s) to see if there's an un-watched show.
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Looks like Radarr merged Plex Watch list support!
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At this point I’m almost too embarrassed to admit I don’t know or understand how sonarr/radarr/trakt work with Plex and what they do. I read the docs and I think they’re designed to be read by computer touchers and I still do things the old fashioned way. Is there an idiot’s guide anywhere?
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Jeherrin posted:At this point I’m almost too embarrassed to admit I don’t know or understand how sonarr/radarr/trakt work with Plex and what they do. I read the docs and I think they’re designed to be read by computer touchers and I still do things the old fashioned way. Is there an idiot’s guide anywhere? I like to think of Sonarr and Radarr as elaborate RSS feed readers: they essentially watch for new content that you're interested in and download it for you. Sonarr is for TV and Radarr for movies, there are equivalents for music and books. They don't integrate with Plex directly, they just manage the media directory that your Plex server is pointed at. So like you can configure Sonarr with a file source to watch, such as a site's RSS feed, integrate it with a download client that it can hand off to, and then tell it which shows you're interested in, and it'll download new episodes as they appear. Or upgrade episodes to better quality when it becomes available. If Plex is watching the directory then it'll pick up the new files. Trakt is a totally separate thing, like a social media site where you can review media and see what people are watching. But it has an API that can be used to find out what movies/shows are new or trending, or what movies a specific user is interested in, and you can filter by genre and other useful things. So Radarr and Sonarr have an integration that lets you pull from that API to automatically add media to your watch list. I have a family member that loves horror movies, so I use the Trakt integration to download the top 10 trending horror movies over the last month. I'm not aware of a simple guide for any of this, I think you have to dive in. To keep it simple I'd pick one of Sonarr or Radarr, depending on whether you download more movies or TV shows, and start there. Block off a few hours to install it and configure it, enjoy the fruits of your labor for a while, get comfortable with running it, then decide whether it's worth the effort to continue along.
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Jeherrin posted:At this point I’m almost too embarrassed to admit I don’t know or understand how sonarr/radarr/trakt work with Plex and what they do. I read the docs and I think they’re designed to be read by computer touchers and I still do things the old fashioned way. Is there an idiot’s guide anywhere? https://trash-guides.info/ I can't say I've used these myself but I see them get cited an awful lot. Sonarr is a TV tool, Radarr is a movie tool. They're generally used with usenet and torrent sites to automate adding things to your collection. You tell Sonarr you like a show, it then tracks new episodes and downloads them automatically from your pre-existing sources and moves them over to your Plex library, with a standardized naming format. Trakt is a bit different, it's just a tracking site for you to know what episodes/movies you've seen. There's been ways in the past to have Plex automatically talk to it and update your lists, but to do that officially now requires a $30 subscription. It also lets you make watchlists and similar, which you can feed into Sonarr/Radarr if you want. I use another site again to automate this a bit further, ie I give it parameters about what I want (new US tv shows that are on certain networks, for example) and it'll tell Trakt the stuff that it finds that meets this, and Sonarr can in turn read that list. It's complicated the first time you set it all up, then it clicks and you're good and you rarely need to make adjustments. efb: ha hopefully our two posts cover all the bases EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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I would strongly suggest you get Sonarr running and then look at Radarr. I find Radarr has many more settings and will tend to download a 384GB 4k movie for no reason other than it thought you needed an upgrade.
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Bonzo posted:I would strongly suggest you get Sonarr running and then look at Radarr. I find Radarr has many more settings and will tend to download a 384GB 4k movie for no reason other than it thought you needed an upgrade. Yeah how the gently caress do i stop it upgrading? its annoying when ive watched the film and then months later all of a sudden its grabbed an 80GB rip for seemingly no other reason than it felt like it.
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You set cut off limits with regards to what you want. Like if you don’t want remuxes etc don’t have them selected. You can also set max file sizes for each type of rip in the settings.
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^^^ efb  Laserface posted:Yeah how the gently caress do i stop it upgrading? its annoying when ive watched the film and then months later all of a sudden its grabbed an 80GB rip for seemingly no other reason than it felt like it. Settings -> Profiles -> Quality Profiles to configure the logic that tells Sonarr/Radarr what quality to download and whether to upgrade files. You can tweak the default quality profiles or add your own. Settings -> Quality -> Quality Definitions to configure the cutoffs for min/max size (total and per-minute) for a given file type. You can tweak these so you aren't downloading absurdly huge bluray rips or something. I forget what the defaults look like, but if you're getting surprised by big downloads maybe check quality profiles to make sure you aren't downloading remuxes.
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Your details completely usurp my ‘eh that shits there somewhere, just look’ post ha.
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the issue i have is that i will usually get a sub 10GB file in the quality i want and it just randomly decides one day to upgrade it. why there isnt just a 'stop searching for files once downloaded successfully' i cannot understand. sonarr does not do this at all. I'll try what you suggested though.
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Does the new watchlist feature not actually sync what I have watched and what I haven’t? For example, I have watched 1.5 seasons of For All Mankind in Plex. However, if I go into my watchlist it shows everything as unwatched. Is there a setting I’m missing?
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