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#PLEX ON MAC PRO 2008 FOR FREE#
Plex would just confuse me.Plex is your home for free TV and movies, giving you access to 80+ live channels and thousands of on-demand titles from around the world. My photos are in the cloud so there is no issue accessing them from any of my devices. but I did not feel the need to leave the Apple architecture.
Plex is supposed to be great by ALL accounts. I use iTunes as my platform for both my ripped movies and music. The iPads and iPhones are wirelessly connected of course and they too never experience any dropouts or connection issues. My house is wired with Cat 6 cable with 3 Netgear Gigabit switches strategically placed so every internet capable device in my home is wired. I replaced my old Extreme with the newest model when it came out a couple of years ago. The Airports have work flawlessly for me for 10 years. I have one Airport Express to extend the network to the other end of the house. I use my 2007 iMac for my iTunes library I stream all over the house. The purchased movies from iTunes are stored in the cloud and readily available from any iPhone/iPad/Apple TV/MacBook in our home. I did the original set ups on the old headless MBP with a monitor attached obviously.
#PLEX ON MAC PRO 2008 MOVIE#
The unit is headless and is only turned on when someone wants to watch a movie from the home/ripped library. I simply turned on home sharing on my headless MBP and connect it via Cat 6 cable to my home network whose router is the newest AirPort Extreme model. The home movies from my DVS Camcorders ripped easily ). I turned my older MacBook Pro whose screen had been totally demolished into storage Library for home movies and commercially protected DVD movies I was ABLE to rip (Ripping those was not easy because High Sierra and El Capitan are the 2 OS on my Macs and those particular 2 OS HELP the copy protection features on those commercial DVD's- I was able to find one program that would rip about 1 in 3 of my collection of 200 Commercially protected DVD movies. Plex can act as a DLNA server as well, so even devices that don't have a specific Plex client can stream media.Ĭlark, you continue to be the only person I've ever known who doesn't like Plex. When I travel, the iOS client automatically tracks my home server IP and allows me access to all of my ripped content. Streaming (both local to the server and remotely) is free, however, and works great. Some of the Plex Passholder-only features include syncing media from the remote server to the iOS client for off-line viewing, syncing media to cloud storage, and automatic syncing new photos from your iOS device to the server. And while the Plex sever and client modules are free, as is most of its functionality, certain key functions that may (or may not) matter to you require a paid "Plex Pass" recurring subscription, or one-time "lifetime" payment (last time I checked I think it was $120 for the lifetime pass). Plex will do everything you ask, including centrally storing photos, and your old MBP is more than enough machine to act as a server for it. I didn't see an appropriate topic/thread to post this question, sorry if I missed the correct location. I had semi-experience with a NAS when i owned a Time Capsule, but I never got buy in/use from the family.Īny suggestions for using the older Macbook as some kind of server to allow for storage of old and new media and allowing me to keep my new Macbook Pro relatively clean of crap that was accumulated over 5 years of life? I have seen Plex, and it looks like an easy solution for music and movies but I'm not sure about photos. I'm hoping to put the older Macbook Pro out to pasture as some kind of shared drive, NAS, media server etc so that the old media files can be accessed while storing new media as acquired. My household also has a daughters Macbook Pro, one iPad, multiple iPhones and an Apple TV gen 3, so having those devices also accessing the photos, movies and music would be a plus.
Currently, we curate all our music and movies in iTunes and photos in Apple Photos.
#PLEX ON MAC PRO 2008 PLUS#
Over the last 5 to 10 years of Mac use, I've picked up 500 GB plus of music, movies and photos that i can't bring over to the new computer due to the smaller SSD. I just purchased a new Macbook Pro with arrival in the next month. My late 2011 Macbook Pro is nearing end of life, the iGPU is dying, making the system unstable due to random shutdowns.