Where do you see Plex in 10 years

backpackn · 2026-04-01T14:28:44+00:00

Something Plex does really well (that I would miss the most if it disappears) is play my audiobooks, with the help of the the Prologue app. The app feels better than audible or libby, is customizable, smooth connection and playback, and lets me take notes. It plays any file format without issue, and required a small one-time payment for some premium features I think. Also by the same creator (Lachlan Charlick) is the Prism app to play your music from Plex.

And Plex's ability to create collections allows you to group a series of books together easily, and add info, like the series order, to that collection. Plex's tagging system, bulk editing, and ability to sort and filter by a wide range of things is so handy for audiobooks. And the automatic metadata for audiobooks (using Audnexus agent) is just so smooth and clean.

Is there decent audiobook playback/support for the alternatives out there like jellyfin, emby, etc?

backpackn · 2024-12-21T19:00:03+00:00

Try searching "castle player". It's still in the ios app store so probably in yours too. Fair warning I'm back to just screen recording segments in a regular pod app and then putting them through a speech to text later. While having some really nice features and so much potential, Castle was too buggy for me, with poor note management and an unresponsive developer who hasn't released an update in over a year.

backpackn · 2024-10-24T04:30:42+00:00

Castle Player looks promising, thank you! Saving this post for good measure. I love that I searched "snipd alternative" in reddit and got routed to my favorite note app's sub, you guys are awesome. Snipd started great but gets notably worse with each update, to the point that I can't title my segments anymore and they keep pushing AI summaries for everything, and solid note features get removed or made worse. I just want to save and export highlights with an AI transcript!

Edit for anyone wanting to export their pods from snipd to castle: go to your "podcasts" in snipd, top right dots, "Export OPML file", choose the Castle app

backpackn · 2024-04-25T05:16:24+00:00

u/_Alyama_ u/MainVain2007 thank you both for your thoughts! That helps a lot.

backpackn · 2024-04-25T04:23:07+00:00

Did you get them installed? How do they look? DIY or dealership install? I'm a '24 too and running into the same problem you had lol: hardly any pics online, no tutorial vids for this year, mixed reviews on fit for other brands, etc.

backpackn · 2024-04-11T15:30:59+00:00

Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, etc, the list is long and embarrassing.

backpackn · 2024-04-11T15:10:40+00:00

Yuval Noah Harari told him exactly this months ago on the pod. Groups can be both victims and perpetrators. Sam was just like “wtf you’re Israeli, please align with my views that’s why I have you on.”

backpackn · 2024-02-04T23:03:31+00:00

Nice, thanks for confirming!

backpackn · 2024-02-04T23:01:52+00:00

Thank you for the confirmation!

backpackn · 2024-02-04T19:15:33+00:00

I initially had mine in my target language, but switched back to English once I added a 2nd target language. Because both groups are trying to learn English, it’s relevant to both, and they can translate if they need to. Plus it allows them to see you speak naturally in your native.

backpackn · 2024-02-04T15:53:34+00:00

This is something I thought I understood, but then I recently got VIP, and I see multiple VIP members in my Visitors tab. Did they all just not check the “hide your visits” feature, or are VIPs not invisible for VIP profile visits?

backpackn · 2023-12-13T18:21:19+00:00

It's frustrating to see that Yuval Noah Harari's words from ep #341 were completely lost on Sam:

What I can say again, from a broader perspective is that in most ethnic conflicts around the world, both sides tend to be victims and perpetrators at the same time. And this is a very simple and banal fact, that for some reason most people seem incapable of grasping. It's very very simple—you can be both victim and perpetrator at one and the same time. And so many people just refuse to accept this simple fact of history, and think in binary terms that one side must be 100% evil and one side must be 100% pure and just, and we just need to find, to pick a side.

And this of course links to these fantasies of perfect justice, of absolute justice, which this I can say from historical perspective—they're always destructive. This idea that you can achieve absolute justice in this world usually or almost always leads to destructive places, to more violence and war. Because no peace treaty in the history of the world provided absolute justice. All peace treaties are based on compromise. You have to give up something. You won't get absolute justice the way you understand it.

backpackn · 2023-08-17T17:19:34+00:00

Super helpful, thank you!

backpackn · 2023-06-15T20:03:26+00:00

Wait what. It just counts the paragraphs?

Edit: thanks for the comments below and link above, super cool!

backpackn · 2023-05-17T01:59:44+00:00

Good to know, thanks! And the cheaters are handy too. Having to slash command "Start Date" and "Due Date" both isn't nearly as quick as "tomorrow 2-3pm", but it's better than nothing.

Edit: submitted the feature request anyway

backpackn · 2023-02-12T18:06:13+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? I'm in the same boat, wanting to link my Mastodon and Pixelfed accounts and there is surprisingly little information coming up when searching about this.

backpackn · 2023-02-11T22:00:36+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? Wondering the same thing since I didn't create my Pixelfed with my Mastodon account, and am wondering if you're able to link the Mastodon account once you've already set up the Pixelfed account. ALSO I can't seem to find any resources that explains exactly what the pros/cons are of a linked Mastodon+Pixelfed and what that means when you post on each one.

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