PleX

Either I’m nuts (possible) or Plex’s shuffle functionality does a poor job randomizing from the set. What’s your take? I’ve been trying to figure out if it is just my perception or potential bias since our memories are fallible and whatnot. It seems like TV show > Shuffle and Playlist (containing all episodes) > Shuffle yield different favored episodes (so maybe a different shuffle algo). And then when I play in episodic order, I recognize episodes that seemingly haven’t played in a while. I suppose I could pull play counts off my server, but that’s no fun! Sooooo, is it just me?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/1227766 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/1227762 > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/1227646 > > > > > I currently have 90Tb of libraries shared via a Windows server. I've been using Mediasonic hard drive enclosures with 8 or 16Tb drives and Windows/Intel storage spaces for 4 drives for the "Movies" library, 8 drives for the "TV" library, and another 4 drives for "Photos" and other random NAS. I literally only share with family, but, that's still about 12 users across the US due to school. I have a stable 1000/1000Mb fiber connection that has been working perfectly for the past few years. So, my issue now is, I want to host my own Lemmy, Matrix, and NextCloud servers, but they all seem to need a Linux-based server. I've read in the past that Linux Plex servers run into a lot of issues since it was designed to run on Windows. I'm not averse to buying yet another computer, but, before I do that I thought I would seek some advice if I should combine everything into one Linux server, or leave Plex as its own Windows server and put everything else on a new device.