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[1129.80 --> 1132.84] I tell myself I'm a FOSS advocate, but this guy lives and breathes it. |
[1133.12 --> 1137.76] And so we were watching something on Plex the other night, and there was just an offhand comment about Plex. |
[1137.80 --> 1138.70] I can't remember what it was. |
[1138.70 --> 1142.12] And it made me think, well, I should probably try out Jellyfin again. |
[1142.18 --> 1142.92] It's been a few months. |
[1143.76 --> 1149.98] And so I thought, well, I've got a bunch of watched status in Plex that I'd rather not lose. |
[1150.42 --> 1155.58] And so I started investigating how I could sync the watched status between Plex and Jellyfin. |
[1155.94 --> 1159.16] And I came across this Plex Tract Sync plugin. |
[1159.48 --> 1162.06] So T-R-A-K-T for Tract. |
[1162.06 --> 1164.68] And this thing is awesome. |
[1164.94 --> 1170.10] Essentially, it scans your media in Plex and adds it to a tract collection. |
[1170.48 --> 1177.52] It will do things like sync the ratings and the watch status as well between different Plex servers that you run this thing against. |
[1177.52 --> 1183.42] There's a config file that you can edit, which will let you know which things you can and cannot sync. |
[1183.96 --> 1187.34] You know, you could exclude certain libraries like home movies, for example. |
[1187.94 --> 1196.20] It doesn't require a Plex pass or a Tract VIP membership, though, of course, if you're going to be hitting the Tract API a lot, consider supporting those guys. |
[1196.28 --> 1197.26] They do a great job over there. |
[1197.26 --> 1203.30] The downside, though, is it wasn't difficult to set up, but it wasn't easy either. |
[1204.06 --> 1211.12] So I ended up running this thing in a container, just a one-liner Docker run file, Docker run command. |
[1211.62 --> 1215.64] And then I set it to run on a cron job every four hours or something like that. |
[1216.84 --> 1217.96] I mean, it worked fine. |
[1218.26 --> 1226.18] There was a couple of gotchas with a pin you had to enter between Tract and the command line in the correct order to get things to link up correctly. |
[1226.18 --> 1228.34] But overall, what is appetized? |
[1229.18 --> 1234.94] Well, you're doing the Lord's work here, Alex, because this is powerful stuff here. |
[1235.02 --> 1245.72] Because the other thing that this clearly would be useful for is if you have a couple of locations and you have some of the same Plex media content and you watch them in separate spots. |
[1245.86 --> 1250.38] Like sometimes Hadee and I will watch something here at the studio and then I'll go home and watch something. |
[1250.46 --> 1253.48] And I have to manually mark things red like a damn caveman. |
[1253.90 --> 1255.22] And this could solve that problem. |
[1255.22 --> 1256.30] This is huge for that. |
[1256.80 --> 1259.34] And I'll tell you what I felt during this whole process. |
[1259.52 --> 1262.84] The next stage was for me to load up Jellyfin. |
[1263.38 --> 1265.08] I still had my config directory. |
[1265.20 --> 1270.14] So I just had to redownload the container and set it up again, which took all of 30 seconds. |
[1271.22 --> 1272.32] Don't you love Docker for that? |
[1272.90 --> 1278.00] So once I got Jellyfin up and running, the first thing that struck me, it remembered my library. |
[1278.08 --> 1281.26] It was like a time capsule of four months ago when I last tried it. |
[1281.26 --> 1287.94] But the first thing that struck me was how quickly everything loaded because there was no cloud communication going on. |
[1288.10 --> 1289.76] I was logged in instantly. |
[1289.98 --> 1291.78] My media loaded instantly. |
[1292.36 --> 1294.00] It was so refreshing. |
[1294.00 --> 1294.68] Yeah. |
[1294.68 --> 1294.76] Yeah. |
[1295.14 --> 1300.96] And I'll note, it's real nice if for just some reason you're trying to watch TV and you don't have an internet connection that night. |
[1301.62 --> 1303.80] Jellyfin just, you know, it doesn't mind at all. |
[1304.50 --> 1313.90] Before you go too much farther, can I ask you, you're not having to like modify the Plex container or put any software like a plugin into Plex or Jellyfin? |
[1313.90 --> 1318.52] It's just all running as separate containers that are speaking via API or what? |
[1318.98 --> 1326.46] Plex speaks via the API, I think, and it runs on your local system and you authenticate against the Plex website with your username and password. |
[1327.04 --> 1330.46] It also supports 2FA, which is pretty cool on the Plex side. |
[1331.14 --> 1333.92] But on the Jellyfin side, it's even easier. |
[1334.10 --> 1338.56] There's a plugin right there in the store built into Jellyfin, you know, three or four clicks. |
[1338.56 --> 1347.82] It's all done in the user interface, no wacky container stuff, and it adds itself into the scheduled task section of Jellyfin itself. |
[1348.36 --> 1349.62] This is perfect. |
[1350.06 --> 1353.32] I do have a question on the initial setup to sync between. |
[1353.92 --> 1361.44] How long do you think, since it was local, how long do you think it took to sync these watch status and the stars and stuff like that? |
[1361.68 --> 1362.26] It's a good question. |
[1362.26 --> 1367.80] The first run of uploading it from my Plex library to Tracked took about 16 minutes. |
[1368.56 --> 1372.38] I've got about 1,000 movies and, I don't know, 150 TV shows or so. |
[1372.64 --> 1374.38] About 60 terabytes worth of stuff. |
[1374.86 --> 1375.56] That's really reasonable. |
[1376.60 --> 1381.30] But Jellyfin, on the other hand, pulling it down was about half that time, about eight minutes or so. |
[1381.68 --> 1383.14] So it was a pretty quick process, really. |
[1383.26 --> 1389.50] And honestly, once it's running as a scheduled task in the background, as long as it doesn't take three days, I don't care how long it takes. |
[1391.18 --> 1395.80] Well, this is absolutely a will-do-after-the-show thing for me. |
[1395.92 --> 1397.16] I love it when you have these ones. |
[1397.28 --> 1397.92] That's great. |
[1397.92 --> 1399.16] I love that. |
[1399.74 --> 1402.28] I've thought, how am I going to solve this problem? |
[1402.38 --> 1404.74] Because it's not a huge issue. |
[1405.32 --> 1409.50] But I also, like you, have contemplated moving to Jellyfin. |
[1409.86 --> 1416.50] And I know this seems stupid, but one of the things that brings me back to Plex is we're in the middle of watching a couple of series. |
[1417.50 --> 1421.44] Or the kids and I are watching a movie that's like a trilogy or something like that. |
[1422.32 --> 1423.98] And we just want our watch status. |
[1424.50 --> 1426.18] It's silly, but it's been a real problem. |
[1426.18 --> 1431.40] So this sounds like a real way I could sync to TrackIt and then sync TrackIt to Jellyfin. |
[1431.66 --> 1433.04] And I could just start there. |
[1433.04 --> 1437.42] And this also could solve the problem between watching things at home and watching things at the studio. |
[1437.64 --> 1439.32] Alex, you're solving problems for me today. |
[1439.86 --> 1440.72] I'm here to serve. |
[1440.72 --> 1446.02] Now, the only thing that still has me pausing about Jellyfin is the Android TV client. |
[1446.22 --> 1449.38] It's still not quite as reliable as I want it to be. |
[1449.46 --> 1450.72] It's pretty close. |
[1450.82 --> 1451.92] It's really getting there. |
[1452.32 --> 1456.34] But there's just some nice things now, particularly Plex have added this, what do we call it? |
[1456.38 --> 1463.10] Like the Discover feature where you get some extra little ratings and some extra little things about which servers it's on and qualities and stuff like that. |
[1463.10 --> 1470.54] That Plex have done that I think Jellyfin could probably add as well that would just take the interface just to that next level. |
[1471.32 --> 1478.66] The search aspect of that Discover feature where it shows you all of your friends' servers is actually really nice. |
[1479.10 --> 1479.28] Yeah. |
[1479.62 --> 1485.20] But the beauty is you could switch between Plex and Jellyfin at your heart's content now and everything will stay in sync. |
[1485.60 --> 1486.38] That's a good point. |
[1486.38 --> 1492.80] You could also just get rid of Android TV and use a good TV platform like Apple TV and run Infuse, which works great with Jellyfin. |
[1494.04 --> 1494.84] Oh, you. |
[1495.24 --> 1499.68] Now, I also wanted to have a look and see if I was going to drop Plex completely. |
[1500.26 --> 1501.94] It needs to do a couple of things for me. |
[1502.06 --> 1507.16] I use Prolog on iOS to do audiobooks, and I actually shared this with your good lady while she was here, Chris. |
[1508.16 --> 1511.34] So I can see she's been listening to a lot of my audiobooks since then. |
[1511.34 --> 1516.22] And that's one of my favorite things of the trip, Alex, is we exchanged audiobooks once again. |
[1516.52 --> 1528.20] She exchanged some of her audiobooks, and she's like – she, I think, is probably in heaven right now because she's kind of been on a bit of a dry streak with audiobooks. |
[1528.50 --> 1533.70] And I'll be honest, I have not been super happy with how I was doing my audiobooks. |
[1533.76 --> 1535.02] Prolog helps a lot, though. |
[1535.48 --> 1538.20] That's been nice, but it's really only best on the phone. |
[1538.20 --> 1544.86] The downside to that is there isn't really a good solution to audiobooks and Plex on Android. |
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