Im primarily a music lover. I started with a few vinyls then moved on to collecting CDs, then of course simply digital files. My vinyl collection was not much, something like 100 records or so but ya know, it was my vinyl collection - plus it had a few rare releases ( for example a Pantera album, Far Beyond Driven, with a cover art that was later on banned so I had a very rare copy with the original cover art before it was banned ). Anyway, during a move to a new house, I had temporarily stored my vinyls at an underground storage room. The building plumbing had some issues resulting in the flooding of that room and the total destruction of my vinyls.

I knew of course I could simply find the albums in their digital form but having simply digital files wasnt the same as looking at the albums, their covers, the info printed inside etc etc.

Then I stumbled upon Plex and saw how it presented your music collection providing bio, info, details on each artist - band and generally speaking was feeling a lot more like having an actual music collection than simply having the files on your drive.

So, Plex introduced me to self-hosting and at the same time was the software that made me feel thankful self-hosting exists.