DaGeek247 of https://dageek247.com/

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Cake day: February 16th, 2024
  • DaGeek247@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex Server Replacement
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    2 months ago

    I had issues streaming directly from one device to the other without transcoding on WiFi. (I know you’re wired! Heard me out.)

    I found that, although it didn’t fix the issue, it did help to switch from using SMB to NFS. Something about the way the protocol works meant that SMB had enough of an overhead that it worsened my stuttering issues outside of the spotty WiFi connection. For sure it significantly sped up scrubbing access times as well.

    It may not be the issue, but it may be a step worth checking just to see if it is a part of the issue.

    For what it’s worth, 4k remuxes can have bitrate spikes well exceeding the limits of a single gbps wire. If you have a player with limited memory, or just limited cache settings, this may also be a part of the problem.

  • DaGeek247@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What's your recommendation for a small NAS?
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    3 months ago

    Terramaster had some pretty gnarly security issues that they badly handled in the past. No big deal if you keep it walled off from the internet, but their software would never let you know it should be kept away from any internet access.

    Also, if you get one of their units that has an ARM chip inside instead of an intel one, there is basically no chance you’re ever going to be able to use anything other than the software that they have by default. This makes the security issues impossible to resolve without completely removing internet access to the device.

  • DaGeek247@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Better music management
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    3 months ago

    I too was unsatisfied with jellyfin’s music handling. Not only was the website disorganized and bad at using the built-in album art, but all the android music players i could find for it were also barely usable as well.

    I can’t use musicbee because it’s windows only. I still want synchronized play history, metadata updates, and everything between my phone, pc, and mp3 player so a single OS software was out of the question.

    I use a combination of beets, navidrome, and tempo. Beets is the metadata manager; once i’ve beet imported an album, it’s ready for navidrome to pick it up and serve it to any of my devices. (I have a custom sync script for my mp3 player that does the same). Navidome serves the music to any connected devices, converts it on the fly to lower quality (for low speed phone network situations) and also keeps track of my play counts, and my playlists for me. It’s not nearly as complicated as some of the other setups, which I also prefer.

    I use tempo on my phone to connect to navidrome on the go and it has worked out incredibly well so far.

  • DaGeek247@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Help with Home Server Architecture and Hardware Selection?
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    7 months ago

    I know most of the less expensive used hardware is going to be server-shaped/rackmount. Don’t go for it unless you have a garage or shed that you can stuff them in. They put out jet-engine levels of noise and require god tier soundproofing in order to quiet them. The ones that are advertised as quiet are quiet as compared to other server hardware.

    You can grab an epyc motherboard that is ATX and will do all you want, and can then move it to a rackmount later if you end up going that way.

    The NVIDIA launch has been a bit of a paper one. I don’t expect the prices of anything else to adjust down, rather the 5090 may just end up adjusting itself up. This may change over time, but the next couple of months aren’t likely to have major deals worth holding out for.