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Could you expand on Kodi, Emby, et al spying on you? I hadn't heard about this, but I don't watch the space closely.

• nobody9999 2y ago
  IIRC, Emby requires a login to function even with just local content. And data is sent to them on what you do on your local system. No thanks. And I meant Plex, not Kodi. Kodi doesn't (AFAIK) spy on their users, but Plex does. My apologies.
  • russelg 2y ago
    If you want an emby fork without the login etc, you can try Jellyfin out. I really think it's overtaken Emby in functionality already anyway.
    • nobody9999 2y ago
      >If you want an emby fork without the login etc, you can try Jellyfin out. I really think it's overtaken Emby in functionality already anyway. Thanks for the suggestion. I did try jellyfin (for playing my 18,000+ audio tracks) and when I tried to shuffle them all (that's my use case) it crashed, every. single. time. I'm sure it's fabulous for many folks, but it doesn't meet my needs.
      • russelg 2y ago
        Late response on my part, but I'm happy to report back that shuffling my 17,000 track library does not crash Jellyfin on the latest stable version. Give it another try maybe?
        • nobody9999 2y ago
          Thanks for the heads up! Perhaps I will.
        • nobody9999 2y ago
          Thank you again for your suggestion. And (as you already knew -- and now I do too!) you are correct. The Jellyfin server no longer crashes when trying to shuffle all my tracks (~20,000). And when I view my music by "Songs", I can shuffle all the tracks without issue while using the web interface via Firefox. Hooray! I never got that far with jellyfin before. Unfortunately, the Roku jellyfin client (again, this is my use case) doesn't have a view by "songs" option. As such, in order to shuffle all my tracks, I needed use a playlist (an actual m3u playlist rather than a jellyfin playlist -- as I don't really want to have to individually click on 20,000 tracks and add them to a jellyfin playlist -- which might or might not work anyway). Which isn't a big deal, as I already used such playlists elsewhere. But attempting to play or shuffle such a playlist fails. Not just on the Roku client, but on Firefox as well. So I guess I'm either going to have to wait for jellyfin clients to support such large m3u playlists, or until the Roku client has a "Songs" view. Again, thanks for your heads up. It was much appreciated!
          • nobody9999 2y ago
            As a follow-up, it appears that once jellyfin had time to complete all its processing of the media I configured, Firefox was able to shuffle a playlist of ~20,000 tracks -- after an hour or so. The Roku jellyfin client (not the server, it seems pretty stable) reliably crashes after ten minutes or so of attempting to load the same playlist. Interestingly, jellyfin on Android appears to have the same behavior as the Firefox/web interface, although I didn't wait an hour to see if that was the case. That said, Finamp[0] (also available on FDroid, FTW!) on Android loads up the playlist just fine and starts playing almost immediately. Which makes me wish Android was my use case. :( All in all, it was rather disappointing. That said, I still do appreciate your suggestion. [0] https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp
            • russelg 2y ago
              It's a shame it doesn't work for your use case :( Finamp is a great app, it's well developed and works far better than the official Jellyfin app/site imo. Jellyfin on android is pretty much just a webview, so it should behave similar to your browser.
  • fmj 2y ago
    IIRC, Emby has also had some GPL compliance issues. Jellyfin is a fork with of Emby with all the crap removed.