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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sort of, I guess? It probably would be very different if I’d been naming them in a way that works for jelly from the start, but it’s just a massive undertaking at this point to… retrofit, for lack of a better term coming to mind.

I was under the impression they used the same agent for metadata, but they must not, or there must be some changes in how Plex handles stuff.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotcha. I hear you can run a utility outside of Plex to do the conversion, but I do have the luxury in this case of starting from scratch, myself.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Good to know, I’ll have to look into that. I’d like my jelly set up for the very few highly technical people I know who can manage their own connections (I got my limited technical skills somewhere!!), as well as my own home use, so thats helpful. Also to have a backup option for the person I care enough about to manage a VPN for (literally one person, but I also want them to have access to my calibre database as well as share folders for GOG games, and they are with it enough to learn what I teach them for maintaining the connection)

Im not sure exactly when I became a data hoarder, but I certainly am now, and more tools are good. Thanks for that info :)