Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt’s not just the tvs, they’re doing it on their streaming sticks too.
Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt’s not just the tvs, they’re doing it on their streaming sticks too.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, every product that they sell will do it.
Using something like OSMC (or buying a Vero is you don’t want to mess around with the setup) will let you control what runs on your player.
Until you do that, you’re paying some random company while also giving root access on a device in your house and letting them waste your time with ads.
All you get out of the deal is avoiding having to learn how to use a new piece of software. A Pyrrhic victory due to the fact that you have to learn to use Roku.
I’d rather spend a few hours learning how to setup Kodi. It’s free software, you don’t pay for it and it’s Free software, you control it with no strings attached.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
My big issue with kodi is that i like my library files to be human named and it does not. Dealbreaker
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kodi doesn’t organize your media, you use other applications for that (tinymediamanager, sonarr/radarr, etc).
The default library layout, for Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi is very human navigable, for example TV Shows are in this format:
TV Show Name |-Season 1 |-Season 2 |-|-S02E01-Episode_Name.mkv
There may be a few extra files in the directories depending on what metadata you’re storing and what you’re pulling from the Internet, but it is organized and navigable.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
aight, and that’s fine for you, then that’s fine for you.
That is not how I roll
-> \fileserver
–> Sci fi series
—> Babylon 5 ----> 1.01 - 1.01 - Midnight on the Firing Line ----> … ----> 2.01 - Points of Departure
etc etc etc.
I’ve played with a translation file so Kodi’s file scrapers can understand that X is Y and react accordingly, but it’s very “my way or the highway” and I don’t bow to a machine. When it refuses to even acknowledge the existence of a file (as in just display the file name, not necessary with any metadata) unless it can jam its thumb up there, I’m out.