You've talked about PLEX before, and it seemed that most features you talked about were just extensions that required a cable or other subscription service for access (or were illegal?), so I was not very interested in that.
However, I am interested in this crowd sourced data for CDs. I rip my CDs to a hard drive, and the program I use accesses and automatically downloads the basic info (album title, track names, some artists info) from a database, and populates the track with this data. That's good, but I was disappointed that it rarely includes composer, and does not have fields for the individual musicians /instruments for each and every track.
I'd love to be able to search my digitized collection and request every track that has (for example) "Klaus Voormann" on "Bass", or any other combination. Or just be able to browse the musicians and instruments on each track. I used to see some of this as I read the album covers as I listened, but searching would be great. My player program (Rhythmbox) was updated so I can now right-click and do a Wikipedia search on the track, better, but not great, not searchable like a database.
Does the PLEX database include this added detailed information? Or does anyone know of an alternative?
-ERD50
First... Plex DOES require cable/broadband and all of the data comes from your computer.
As far as details on music, other than Artist and Album, no.. (at least not yet), but the song titles do show.
The amount of information that PLEX shows on Movies and TV shows is excellent, and growing, and the search function has improved by quantum leaps over just a year ago.
Am pretty sure that smart TV's can use the program w/o a media player like Roku, but am not positive.
I did a check last night, and found that I could stream 2 movies at once thru two different computers.
The part I really like is the smoothness of placing the files on the program. Just load a folder, and it sorts sub-folders and all of the detail. My thousands of pictures sort down to easy management, almost better than my computer.
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As to "advertising"...
Yeah... I'm well aware. I can assure everyone, that I don't do this for compensation or to push product, and what was written was NOT
cut and pasted, , but what I wrote. It's a free program, that I've used and like, and wanted to share with friends here on ER, as I think it's so versatile, and can replace multiple streaming programs. I suppose too wordy again.