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Youtube – I gave up for the time being after Google put some restrictions that killed the default option.

Spotify works well with a variety of devices via Spotify Connect.

Plexamp alexa android#

I haven’t tried to put Spotify in Kodi, I’m happy to just use the Android TV app. I just moved to Spotify Premium Family and it’s unlikely I’ll look back. Of course in their infinite wisdom Google had to mess up a good thing, and YouTube Music is such as pathetic replacement it’s not even funny. We used to have a Google Music family subscription which I found was fantastic value for the money. (Similar functionality is built in Plex.)

Lazy TV – I use this to be able to automatically play the next episode of a series at the end of the one I just finished watching.

Library Node Editor – use this if you don’t want your stand-up comedy or documentaries mixed with fiction TV series.

The MovieDB helper – details about movies, shows, actors.

Lesser-known alternatives: TV Time, Simkl.

Plexamp alexa skin#

You can also access public lists and create your own, which you can turn into skin widgets via OpenMeta.

lets you keep track of what you’ve watched and liked.

Do back up your skin settings when you have something you like, as it’s pretty easy to lose a lot of work with a couple of operator errors or because of crashes.

The whole widget / submenu / submenu widget logic takes some time to get used to, but it lets you lay out your content exactly the way you want to.

Arctic Zephyr 2: good-looking and very flexible skin.

Bear in mind though that this adds more GBs of metadata for your Shield to handle, making the external hard drive requirement only more important.

PlexKodiConnect, a better approach than the official Plex for Kodi solution.

Among the most useful additions to core Kodi, I recommend: Kodi on the other hand is infinitely configurable thanks to all its settings, skins, and addons, and handles more content types. I like Plex as a server but the media player is a bit limited. Media Players: Stick to Plex & Android Apps for Ease of Use While Kodi is Where It’s At for Extreme Customization These tips apply to all devices that can run Plex Media Server, not just the Shield.

Plexamp alexa how to#

This part became so huge that I spun it off into its own entry explaining how to turn Plex into the ultimate media server.

Plexamp alexa pro#

Plex Library Pro Tips: Movies, TV Series, Documentaries, Video Tutorials, Sports, And More It’s great that you can have a sizable library managed on the Shield, but expectations should be reasonable and for huge libraries it’s not a substitute for a more powerful device. Jellyfin.Ģ021 update: I moved Plex Media Server to a Docker container on my Synology DS920 NAS as my collection, now at 100TB and counting, had become a strain for the Shield as a server. If you don’t like Plex or like researching options until you drop, see Plex vs. My focus is on using Direct Play on the local network with a few clients, not transcoding to my extended friends and family which would require a beefier server. on a 4K Fire Stick in one of the bedrooms) or the Plex web app, and of course on the Shield itself. We access Plex via various devices either through apps (e.g. Your PMS data (we’re not talking about the media files themselves here) will be at \internal\Android\data\\Plex Media Serverĭo not let your attached hard drive get completely full, otherwise your Shield will badly crash. On the right, the external 2TB hard drive adopted as pseudo internal storage. On the left, the Shield’s Root showing storage > emulated. You can also mount remote drives on the Shield which will let you load them in PMS. Then and only then add media to your libraries.

Plexamp alexa install#

Install PMS from scratch and move it to the external drive (that pretends to be internal) before you load media to your libraries, otherwise it takes forever or outright fails.

The sweet spot for best price/TB these days is with the 8TB WD Elements hard drive.

I freed up an old 2TB Western Digital drive I had on my network.

Hook up a USB hard drive to the Shield.

What eventually brought sanity and stability to the whole thing was to: I also went through two Sandisk USB keys but the whole thing would always end up flaking out at some point. PMS works well on the Shield (though there have been some Shield-specific issues such as local assets not showing) but if you have a large library, you do NOT want to set it up on the feeble 16GB of internal storage, as you’ll fill that in a hurry with all the media metadata, even if you turn off video thumbnails in your libraries’ advanced settings. Shields come with Plex Media Server (PMS) pre-installed, so this is the option I went with. In the past I went back and forth between running Plex and Emby on my PC, but I really wanted to move that task off my desktop which was one of the reasons why I bought the Shield in the first place. Use a USB Hard Drive so that Plex Can Scale As a Stable Media Server