It wouldn’t even find Constantine at all. I couldn’t then fix them up to have the right names, because it only allows one show per folder. It then got most things right, but Arrowverse became 8 shows, called “Year One”, etc. So I tried adding each of the four folders separately. Plex found four shows: “Archive X”, “ News Watch”, “Arrow”, and “Marvel Cinematic Universe”, which isn’t a show, so it found no metadata. Use case: my tv shows are sorted into the following structure:Īrrowverse has all the CW shows named with a number at the start to have them in chronological order so as to get all crossovers correct.ĭS Video finds every single show when I point it to the TV Shows root folder, and names them accordingly. Plex ignores anything in subfolders and assumes you have only one show per folder, and allocates metadata based on the folder name. DS Video just finds every file in the folder you choose, regardless of sub folders, and allocates metadata based on the file name. But putting that aside, it’s so restricted in everything you do. Firstly, the constant pop ups asking me to subscribe are an immediate killer for me. Everyone kept telling me to ditch DS Video and use Plex instead. Something that I could even sell to my customers for their libraries, if they wanted.Plex is atrocious. Would a server with Plex be the way to go or something else like a networked hard drive?ģ) What would be a slick way to run a media server? I was thinking about a mac mini or something. I'd also like to have a spot where all my movies would be located.

I could upgrade it to Win7 Pro but I would have to add more memory).ġ) What software are you guys using for ripping CD's?Ģ) I want to move all my music from my PC just in case something happens and the computer dies one day. My office computer is a Vista machine, (don't laugh, it's a Sony all-in-one that has been pretty good. We have a mix of PC and Apple devices in the house. I also have Sonos through out the house for music.

I have an Apple TV (3rd gen) in my family room system which is our only TV in the house. Currently I have all of my music in my office computer and any time I get new CD's, I just add them to iTunes. I was wanting to rip all of my DVD's and Blurays into a library for easy access.

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