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  • being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don’t know any other player that has similar.

    Well, you can remote control playback in Kodi through apps like Kore, and browse the libraries, but it’s a totally different experience in comparison to dedicated music player apps. Kodi is more like software for a home theater PC, a.k.a. media center.

    The best viable solution I can think of, that includes a desktop UI and remote control from a phone, would be hosting a Jellyfin server for the music library, then using the client app for Android to remotely control another client app running on your desktop. I do that everyday (but mostly for video content), since I’m using my phone to control playback on a Raspberry Pi running Kodi with the “Jellycon” client add-on, but that could be any other Jellyfin client, such as a regular Jellyfin desktop client.












  • There’s probably a Plex add-on for Kodi. At least, there is for Jellyfin and Emby. If you don’t like the UI, try changing it. I prefer the one called “Arctic: Zephyr - Reloaded”. You’ll need to customize the homescreen a bit to get the most out of it. That way you can make it show widgets of your content, e.g. the latest content added, continue watching, specific libraries, etc. That, at least, works very well with Jellyfin through the Jellycon add-on.


  • I thought this would work - and it does! Here’s how to add radio channels as Live TV:

    • From the Jellyfin homescreen menu, navigate to the Dashboard
    • Click the Dashboard menu button (three stripes at the top)
    • Go to Live TV
    • Click the first (+) button to add a new tuner device
    • Choose “M3U Tuner”
    • Select your local .m3u file or paste a URL
    • Click Save
    • Go back to the homescreen of Jellyfin
    • In the menu, click Live TV
    • Switch to the tab called Channels
    • If your .m3u file works, you can select any channel it contains from here.

    You can even add a custom logo for each channel:

    #EXTM3U
    #EXTINF:-1,Channel 1 tvg-logo="https://link.to/logo-ch1.png"
    http://liveradio.url.channel1.fake:8000/channel1-is-fake.mp3
    
    #EXTINF:-1,RadiOmega tvg-logo="https://linking.park/logo-radiomega.png"
    http://liveradio.nope.omegalive:8000/y/radiomega.mp3
    

    And rank them in the list by changing -1 to positive values IIRC.


  • I just tried this on an Ultra.cc seedbox with yt-dlp installed, and the Fintube plugin configured to the right path for that, yet when I go to Dashboard > Fintube and click the Submit button to add a video to the download, nothing happens. Can’t figure out what’s wrong.

    Maybe Jellyfin doesn’t have the necessary write permissions to write the file to that folder, but I’m not quite sure how to change those on such a seedbox, if that’s the case.

    Any experience with this to share? Would the Submit button usually lead to a different view, or does it just stay on that video submission screen while the download happens silently in the background? The lack of action I experience when clicking it feels a bit awkward…




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    6 months ago

    I’m in the same situation as you, more or less… I have three new 22TB drives that need an enclosure, preferably for JBOD (no hardware RAID needed) but I can’t figure out which ones are actually good products… I don’t mind using a random-brand product if it’s actually solid.

    I find it very difficult to figure out which ones will support my 22TB drives. And for some of them, it seems, it’s impossible to add new drives to empty slots later (because of hardware RAID, I guess?), which has made me hesitant in buying one with more slots than I have drives, in case they can’t be utilized later on anyway…

    I was looking at the QNAP TR-004 which was mentioned by someone else somewhere on Lemmy some months ago, but IIRC it would be impossible to use the fourth slot later if the drive isn’t included in the hardware RAID configuration…

    EDIT: I have also been looking into so-called “backplanes” as an alternative, since they seem to do the job and are cheaper, but I’m unsure if I’ll need a PC chassis/case/tower for that to actually work?

    If you find something good (products or relevant info), feel free to share it with me.