This week I am trying to move my #video library from #Plex running on #TrueNAS to #Jellyfin running on TrueNAS.

First impression is that Swiftfin (the AppleTV app) is not good enough. I have 500-600 films in a hierarchy of dozens of directories. Both Jellyfin and Swiftfin dump all that into a pile called #Movies. So my screen has all 500+ films in alphabetical order.

Things like Monsterdon schlocky films are right next to comedies and drama and action.

I want to see my top level folders like Comedy, Action, Kung-Fu, etc. Then I want to descend into them. I can kinda get this in the web UI, but the TV UI is determined by the app.

Other than that, I’m really enjoying it. I love the collections and the automatic figuring-stuff-out. It’s been good.

I love the lack of shoving stuff in my face. Plex of course wants to shove things into my face.

I’m downloading Infuse for #AppleTV to see if it works better.

This week I am trying to move my #video library from #Plex running on #TrueNAS to #Jellyfin running on TrueNAS.

First impression is that Swiftfin (the AppleTV app) is not good enough. I have 500-600 films in a hierarchy of dozens of directories. Both Jellyfin and Swiftfin dump all that into a pile called #Movies. So my screen has all 500+ films in alphabetical order.

Things like Monsterdon schlocky films are right next to comedies and drama and action.

I want to see my top level folders like Comedy, Action, Kung-Fu, etc. Then I want to descend into them. I can kinda get this in the web UI, but the TV UI is determined by the app.

Other than that, I’m really enjoying it. I love the collections and the automatic figuring-stuff-out. It’s been good.

I love the lack of shoving stuff in my face. Plex of course wants to shove things into my face.

I’m downloading Infuse for #AppleTV to see if it works better.

As a pretty hardcore #TrueNAS and #Plex user my jaw was on the floor reading this review of prosumer home movie server/player equipment from Kaleidescape.

This great snippet should set expectations 😂

"The $2,995/£3,399 needed for the 4K Strato E puts Kaleidescape within reach of way more people than any player before..."

And that's just for the player! You're looking at another $6k for the server, with a measly 8TB of SSD in it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2025/11/18/home-cinema-epiphany-how-kaleidescapes-strato-e-and-mini-terra-prime-turned-my-home-theater-world-upside-down/

Question for Jellyfin (or Plex) users: how do you have your movies and TV show libraries set up? Just two generic "movies" and "TV shows" libraries? Separate ones by genre/studio/some other categories?

#Jellyfin #plex

From a dusty college Vaio to a full-blown Plex media hub, my first DIY server taught me: backups > performance, constraints breed learning, and self-hosting builds confidence. 🖥️💡

Control your tech. Build your freedom.

https://wiobyrne.com/my-first-diy-server/

#DIYServer #Homelab #DigitalSovereignty #Plex

@rolle @robert Going even beyond small businesses... I wonder how much malicious bots target just individual self-hosters?

I was once told that I shouldn't worry that Jellyfin could never send out a "we were breached" email like Plex does.. because nobody would ever try to hack into my Jellyfin server since I'm not a big corpo.

#SelfHosted #Plex #Jellyfin #SelfHosting #HomeLab

I have a bunch of files I need to move from one hard drive to another for boring reasons, and am wondering if this is a good time to finally rebuild my home server. I have an Intel NUC plus a Synology NAS for storage, and I mostly just run #Plex and #HomeAssistant.

With Home Assistant, I’ve been a bit annoyed with the Docker image not supporting some of the add-ons you can use if you use Home Assistant OS. I wonder if I should run that directly on the NUC, and then Plex on the NAS? 🤔

I did not receive the email from #Plex about the leak (username, password, email).
I change my password, disconnected all my sessions and even changed my email.

Change your #plex passwords now if you didn't know... It was sent to affected users but who knows?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/plex_breach/

Change your #plex passwords now if you didn't know... It was sent to affected users but who knows?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/plex_breach/

I did not receive the email from #Plex about the leak (username, password, email).
I change my password, disconnected all my sessions and even changed my email.

Oh, yeah! #Plex got hacked!

They SAY passwords were hashed, but PLEASE #reset your plex #password and force a sign-out on ALL devices using their interface as follows:

When doing so, there's a checkbox to "Sign out connected devices after password change," which we recommend you enable.

Irritating...especially cos they don't say WHEN this happened!

@lisamelton @briankrebs

PS: On Synology search the /volumes/Plex (or whatever you named it) for Preferences.xml - and continue with these instructions. I don't know why they don't include the #Synology instructions... they put out the Synology app!

https://support.plex.tv/articles/204281528-why-am-i-locked-out-of-server-settings-and-how-do-i-get-in/

So, all-in-all they've done a good job of hardening their server-side databases and ingress points, I'd say.

Oh, yeah! #Plex got hacked!

They SAY passwords were hashed, but PLEASE #reset your plex #password and force a sign-out on ALL devices using their interface as follows:

When doing so, there's a checkbox to "Sign out connected devices after password change," which we recommend you enable.

Irritating...especially cos they don't say WHEN this happened!

@lisamelton @briankrebs

"An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, and securely hashed passwords. "

"An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, and securely hashed passwords. "