They Provide Meta Data about the Media, Play Series in proper order, Allow you to see rankings, Ratings, provides Art, etc and most importantly Keeps track of play history on a per user basis. The draw of Emby, Plex, and jellyfin is not just to file browse and open up files >& tablets should just be able to connect over SMB It is a good way to get your system compromised. putting samba or any other SMB server on the wider internet is a bad bad idea. >Telling your home router to forward 445 is not that hardĭont do not. And Tailscale's the only company on the planet who seemingly has the sense to extend our homenet's reach quickly/easily. Ideally upnp/dlna should also somehow be an option too, but it assumes secure private networks I think? I'd love if it could be exposed publicly but locked down but it does all use mdns. ![]() when we have seemingly so little that does the general job. It feels wild that we have so much bespoke special software for remote media serving. it'd be interesting/great to know if anyone does remote drives on android today. But then again I really have had no interest in Box/Azure Drives/whatever. I have no idea if Android still makes filesystem providers possible at all, but we havent seen any, and this one old one-time-drop artifact remains the only example I know of it ever having beem done ever on Android. Some of my media players still work with the 2017 code drom of the Android Samba Provider, but it uses old Android APIs so many media players wont work with it. These incressingly user-hostile anti-general-purpose-computing systems. The main problem why the obvious "just use computers" problems doesnt work is. So I often forward on another port (ex: 4445) and then everything works fine. Alas I've seen some isp's block users from connecting to 445, which seems insane (my ispets me host there, but my parents isp blocks me from dialing home?!). Usinf minupnpc or just building in auto-port forwarding would be better. Telling your home router to forward 445 is not that hard. This all feels like it should be 800x less of an issue because phones & tablets should just be able to connect over SMB & you should use whatever media player you want on your device. I think having the option to hide it would be enough to alleviate it, but apparently one cannot, How would you surface it without having an easily discoverable item in the sidebar? I think the complaint makes sense in relation to the Apple Music sidebar items,īut considering that there are users who want to use Apple Music, So it is not like the Apple Music "Explore" or "Listen Now" page is shown on every launch The application reopens where you last left off, Most media players I've used work like that. ![]() Listening to your own music in the macOS Music app is as simple as dragging (importing) the music into Music.app and selecting any of the options ("Recently Added", "Songs", etc.) in the Library sidebar. I'm not sure what you are referring to here. > However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button. ![]() This is a fairly ridiculous situation IMHO (well, solitaire in Windows getting ads/online is slightly more, but I'll never go there) since a music player that fulfills my needs is pretty easy: show a list of artists, play either the whole artist or a single album in shuffle mode. However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates of the alt music player I installed the author problem is true they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work. This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead."
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