Mark Boszko
I wrote a blog post about how I manage home media, and make backups of (most of) it: movies, TV, music, books, audiobooks, that sort of thing. Some sections could probably be more fleshed out, but I’m curious if you might find this useful: https://stationinthemetro.com/2023/08/03/managing-home-media
Managing Home Media

As companies start to decide that sometimes it is better for them to remove access to media that you have “purchased” — I thought it would be good to share how I manage my media at home. This is a …

Station in the Metro
Aug 5, 2023 at 3:27amWeb
Show threadmalducinAug 5, 2023

@swizzlevixen definitely useful. Kinda started a bit before the pandemic when @tvaziri mentioned his efforts. Pretty far along and movies, & someTV. Music barely organized in folders,. Books and magazines pretty good. My biggest worry is photos & videos.

For conventions I use mostly plex style with some Kodi ideas. Don't have plex installed per se, I just copy stuff to a usb & play on tv oi an rpi. Considering jellyfin. I do use Calibre. For cataloging tMM and filebot for renaming

Show threadMark BoszkoAug 5, 2023

@malducin @tvaziri Thank you! That’s great to hear. I appreciate the feedback.

I guess for magazines I have PDFs mostly. I … haven’t really considered photos aside from basically throwing everything in Apple Photos (née iPhoto) and crossing my fingers.

Is tMM tinyMediaManager? I didn’t know about that before.

Show threadmalducinAug 5, 2023

@swizzlevixen yep tinyMediaManager mainly because it's self contained and cross platform, although it has some limitations. But for TV & movie cataloging I like it.

Magazines, especially physical I use Google Sheets. Books library Thing but might switch to bookwyrm. Since I'm Linux based don't have a good solution for photos or music, hence using filebot and things like Picard and then organize into folders.

What I really need to do is get the hang of handbrake instead of only ffmpeg

Show threadHollieAug 5, 2023

@swizzlevixen Thanks for this! I've been trying to learn more about Plex servers and this info is especially helpful.

With books, I've never gotten the DeDRM tool to work inside Calibre, and so I actually use an old MacBook Air with a super outdated copy of Calibre and the Kindle app to do that. Additionally I'm not able to get anything published after 2021 or so (the transition seems to have happened sometime in 2022) unlocked via DeDRM. I've been watching the MobileRead forums for an update.

Show threadMark BoszkoAug 5, 2023
@hollie hmmm I did my most recent kindle conversions within the last year. I think there was a split and the original DeDRM developer stopped updating it, and someone else forked it and took over. Have you tried with the newer plugin? When I get home I can look and confirm which one I used.
Show threadHollieAug 6, 2023
@swizzlevixen I don't think I have tried the new one, I'll do that this coming week! It'd sure be nice to retire the outdated machine and start using a current edition of Calibre.
Show threadJose VazquezAug 17, 2023
@swizzlevixen that was a fun read. Not sure that I’ll ever be able to go back to physical media, I wish I had never gotten rid of my old stuff 🥲
Show threadMark BoszkoAug 17, 2023
@josevazquez Thanks! I got rid of a lot, that I also regret a bit, but I’m still getting more from time to time. Great stuff is still being released on BD for the first time. Filling in old gaps in the collection. Just like vinyl — you can start collecting again if you want to 😉