In addition to plex serving a bunch of video/music media, my home media server also serves: - Old Videos Games via shared folders to local setups of retroarch

In addition to plex serving a bunch of video/music media, my home media server also serves: - Old Videos Games via shared folders to local setups of retroarch via Steamlink to my TV. I have literally thousands of retro games available from Atari VCS to PS2 I can play at a moment's notice. Using playnite I've also pulled together all the games from Steam, Gog and Epic into one place which all streams relatively well to my TV via Steamlink. - Books, Comic books, Papers, and Magazines. I use ubooquity over calibre since it just fits my style and needs better. I have almost 100,000 pieces of readable media organized and available. - Photos, we travel a lot and I like photography. So I have hundreds of thousands of photos also served up via plex. I use two computers to do this. One is a cheap file/media server that's running plex and ubooquity. It's attached to two Mediasonic 4-bay probox serving up somewhere around 70TB of raw storage. The other is a higher-end daily-use computer with a decent GPU that can push the steamlink games and emulate old games with filters really well. It has 32GB of RAM but only around 4.5TB of storage -- which is fine since I use the file serve for most everything. I should probably consolidate both machines down to one higher-end system and offload my desktop activities to a lower-end system but this setup is more something that's grown organically over time and wasn't really "designed". However, the end effect is, I can plop in front of my TV, and choose from a virtually unlimited collection of media. And when I want to read something, I'm exclusively tablet now on the couch or in bed, and have virtually unlimited amount of reading material available as well. I'll watch, play, and read something pretty much every day, so this setup has proven itself immensely. It's also allowed me to eliminate rooms full of media, game systems, and other The only remaining hangup that I'm not happy about is how to best handle audiobooks. Right now I shove them into plex as another audio library, but it's kind of a mess and plex thinks they're all music or something. Tbh, I don't really like how plex serves up audio anyways. I also love it if plex just supported ebooks in the way ubooquity does, then I could unify my servers and also more easily serve reading material outside my home network. The last remaining media I really want to be able to serve up in someway without converting them all are old chiptunes, amiga mods and other demoscene tracker music. I have a huge collection but haven't yet found a good way to serve them up in a way I like and have them accessible in the ways I have my other media available.