Yes, I’m aware of this version. But that doesn’t solve the original issue.

I would, but from what I’m hearing it’s down to a single Dev and apparently the MusicBrainz DB change has kept it basically offline for weeks. I’d think my ask is very low on that list of ever getting done.

Is there a reason you’re trying to expose them to the internet? IMO you’re better off not doing that and using Overseer as the only exposed service that talks to everything else. Exposing the whole arr stack is just unwise and unnecessary.

Yeah… that’s a non-starter for me. Not gonna risk my entire home lab when Plex doesn’t have any of that risk.

Also, running in Docker is fantastic but I’ve found Docker to be unstable at times depending on the version.

I’ve heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues, which I don’t know if that’s accurate or not. But the BIGGEST issue is lack of a proper tvOS app. I really don’t feel like using Infuse or some other app just to use my library. Year after year I hear about people switching and yet, the gap is simply still there.

Thank you! It didn’t come off as a dig at all. Trust me, I thought about it and spent about an hour on Internet Archive looking for a version that ran on its site. But nothing was there and I learned the hard way last year that Virtual Box is still in the Intel era, so it’s useless for me.

I did look into UTM as others are saying, but based on its description it may not be able to run an OS that far back. Something to look into down the line.

Either way, again, thanks for reading my work. I really do appreciate it. There’s some other old Microsoft goodies I’ve written in the past, like this commercial introducing Excel.

Wow, that’s a cool story! Thanks for sharing it! I had no clue there was even a beta test group back then. Was that outside of Microsoft?

Hi, author here 👋. Thanks for the feedback. If the Internet Archive had it on their own VM to run, I would’ve tried playing with it and taken some screenshots. However, I simply did not have the time to get it running locally on my machine, especially because I’m all Mac and Virtual Box doesn’t run on M-series hardware.

I agree it’s a missed opportunity, but I chose to go a little bit of an easier route.

Thanks for reading and enjoying the other 99% of the article. 😉

TBH I would consider an M4 Mac Mini and either a NAS or DAS to go along with it. The power, efficiency, and price make it a really compelling choice.

Correct and what I’ve seen from Jellyfin / Emby are poor looking at best. While I could cobble together a system that works for me, there’s no way anyone I share with would put up with it. Plex is PLEX for a reason.

Been beta testing this as a Kickstarter backer for many months and it’s one of my top iPhone apps. Iconfactory has done a real good job and I’ll say that if you like the app, $80 for a lifetime purchase really will pay for itself after only a year of using it.

The weird thing is that it doesn’t matter what instance/server your friends are on. If they follow you, they’ll get all your posts in their feed. The best advice I can give anyone starting out on Mastodon is to follow tags instead of people in order to surface interesting posts, then you can follow people as they come up on feeds.

Oh it will as soon as the investors demand more ReTurN oN iNvEsTmEnT.

You got it. Good luck!

So there’s 2 files that go along with the main script: a config file and a download list.

The download list file is literally a list of YT channel URLs and any time I want it to get new channels, I add to the list. Conversely if I get tired of watching a channel, I comment it out or just delete it. YT-DLP just traverses the list.

The config is where the magic happens. That dictates how the file is named, quality you download at, location it’s saved to, format, etc. You can incorporate SponsorBlock which is awesome and even DeArrow has an integration. I enjoy the logging feature so it doesn’t re-download vids it’s already snagged. Generally I’ll tell it to get every video from a channel that’s been posted in the last 15 days.

My destination for the files is a YouTube library folder I set up in Plex. Plex sees it just as another TV-like library and it pulls the metadata from the files, which are embedded by YT-DLP.

Hope this helps!

I use YT-DLP to scrip the download of vids I want to watch and it drops them into Plex for me. I set it to run every 4 hours.

1. I think it can, you just need to give it the machine’s name or local IP and the port.
2. Nope!
3. Caddy handles all certs from LE and renews them for you too. Nothing you need to do on your own.

Is there a way to hook the custom Listenbrainz playlists into Lidarr so I could have a new mix / recommended playlist each week?

Yes this is possible. I have a few hosted items with subdomains and I have it set up as follows:

All subdomains point to the same IP. Router port forwards all 80/8080 traffic to server. I use Caddy in Docker to forward the requests based on the subdomain to the appropriate docker container hosting the actual service.

This makes spinning up something new simple. You get a docker container of New Thing going, edit the CaddyFile to point to it too, set up new subdomain in cloudflare. No new open ports needed.

Hope this helps!

Will be interesting to see how this goes in a year or two.