Peter Galbavy wrote: > I generally use LMS for music and Plex for video material but I have and > do use Plex for certain music applications; A number of personal > observations: > > People making comparisons between the scanners have simply not set > things up right in the first place. On the same hardware looking at the > same file and setting Plex up to use the basic (NOT premium) music > library with "use embedded tags" results in much the same time as an LMS > "clear library and scan". Similarly for re-scans. > > Gapless playback is very limited and mostly to externally maintained > clients. It's not a server deficiency but a client one and the Plex > development of music features in clients is pretty poor. > > The metadata handling of compilations / VA albums is horrible and > primitive and seems random. It ignores the COMPLILATION tag on all > formats completely and instead uses the heuristic of checking the > ARTISTS tags to see how many there are. My non-scientific estimate is if > it finds about 10% of the tracks from the same artist it puts it under > their name. ALBUM ARTIST, while supported, is poorly handled. > > On the other hand the standard interface is much better. Sync support is > excellent to mobile devices. It's slick. > > LMS wins as a nerd's music infrastructure, Plex wins as a consumer > facing system. > > I have ignored the unavailability of simple (to install and maintain) > LMS client hardware and software.
If I could find a decent audio client for Plex, I'd consider moving away from LMS. Especially if it supported multi-channel audio. d6jg wrote: > I think this is a very fair assessment. I too use LMS for music and Plex > for video but do allow Plex to scan my music also. Yep, same here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SamS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103565 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
