LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Media Server”

app03 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:03:42 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Media Server” https://linuxunplugged.com/tags/media%20server Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0700 An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. en-us episodic Weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests and tons of opinion. Jupiter Broadcasting An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux. no Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com 685: Pool Party https://linuxunplugged.com/685 88e48827-4ac6-4439-9990-ecc55215e70b Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe. 53:37 no <p>We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe. </p> Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, open source, zerdr, PJ pick, jellyfin, promise amnesia, rclone, erasure coding, object storage, RustFS, NixOS, flake.nix, Hermes, MinIO, Ceph, flakelet, ffdash, Chompass, sops-nix, agenix, distributed storage, S3, self-hosting, homelab, media server, media pool, FUSE, declarative configuration, secrets management, systemd credentials, AI agents, VR, ARM, gaming, network storage, Valve, Xiaomi, Game Correspondent Jeff, Steam Frame, Mac SE/30, Armada, Absorb, Audiobookshelf, wizarr, Vikunja, zellij, zj-radar, LND, pi, llama-swap, Home Assistant, Love Down Babylon, Jellarr, Zaboomafoo We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.

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]]> 684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly https://linuxunplugged.com/684 b372b103-b15b-446f-a0b6-f3c33769596a Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better. 1:00:47 no <p>We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better. </p> Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, open source, Jellyfin 12, Jellyfin, Wizarr, Seerr, Maintainerr, Tracearr, jellarr, Pelagica, Tether, ICSx⁵, Smriti, Vikunja, LibreNotes, OpenLogi, Automatic Ripping Machine, InFuseSync, Hermes, Home Assistant, Zola, Commodore, Bitwarden, media server, self-hosted media, self-hosted, Jellyfin upgrade, photo library, task manager, calendar, Apple Continuity on Linux, optical disc ripping, media management, media requests, media analytics, declarative configuration, home automation, media automation, media preservation, ebook reading, OPDS, FFmpeg, subtitles, books, media scanning, performance optimization, TechDev, Nextcloud, Immich, Mealie, OpenMouse, Podverse We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

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Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
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Jupiter Garage SWAG
Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH.
Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software!
Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr.
Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.
jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.
Jellyfin 12.0
Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
[Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
State of the Fin 2026-05-24
Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub
Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here.
On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface
Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
Smriti — photos without a server
ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux.
Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again.
go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own.
Vikunja: The task manager you actually own
automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube
OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator
OpenLogi
OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers.
Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.

]]> We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

Sponsored By:

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
Jupiter Garage SWAG
Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH.
Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software!
Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr.
Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.
jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.
Jellyfin 12.0
Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
[Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
State of the Fin 2026-05-24
Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub
Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here.
On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface
Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
Smriti — photos without a server
ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux.
Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again.
go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own.
Vikunja: The task manager you actually own
automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube
OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator
OpenLogi
OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers.
Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.

]]> 659: Truth Trapper Keepers https://linuxunplugged.com/659 9ccfe1b0-8b6f-4ac7-b50a-477842808697 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack. 52:37 no <p>The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack. </p> Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Podcast, Linux Unplugged, open source, Keeper, Keeper.sh, calendar syncing, calendar aggregation, self-hosted, MCP, NixOS, podman, systemd, PiBox, KubeSail, Raspberry PI, Compute Module 4, CM4, Raspberry PI Compute Module 4, embedded Linux, SBC, single-board computers, Raspberry Pi backplane, tiny NAS, NAS, media server, rpiboot, usbboot, Jellyfin, Wayland kiosk, kiosk, appliance, Cage, Cage kiosk, van life classifieds, I want that van!, Pentium 2, binary boost, fq, binary format inspection, File Fridge, cold storage, homelab, sigrok, signal analyzer, logic analyzer, PulseView, roast songs The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
OneCal
PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
Azuay Province - Wikipedia
Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

]]> The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.

Sponsored By:

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
OneCal
PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
Azuay Province - Wikipedia
Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

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