I am a bit confused regarding the message Plex sent out yesterday regarding the process of Plex Cloud. As it initially was announced to be working with ACD, I (and probably many others as well) have immediately signed up for an ACD account and have been uploading content ever since then. In their latest message the focus seems to be on other hosters that for many of us will not be an option, as they simply are ridiculously expensive for bigger collections (mine is around 24TB now and growing). I mean, look at Google, who charge almost 300$/month for 30 TB… they can’t be serious.
When signing up for a Beta invite (which I did not get so far) I never intended to use the Beta with all of that data, but was of course looking forward to have everything ready for the eventual go-live of this solution. With the latest announcement, does this mean ACD is completely on the back-burner now? Is it (aside from cloud backup purposes) still worth uploading my stuff? I managed 8.5 TB so far and was planning to keep going, of course, and pay the annual fee which will start in 20 days or something - what are your thoughts?
No I’m pretty sure it just means that they are having technical issues with the implementation of it. It’s probably costing them a lot of money spinning up the transcoding instances.
I have my media all uploaded into ACD and yes, there are issues concerning rate limiting being experienced with Plex Cloud interfacing with ACD. I also initially thought there were no other providers that were viable, but I have signed up for a GSuite (Google Business) account as that gives unlimited storage on Google Drive for about £6 a month… They do say unlimited is only if you have a minimum of 5 users, but others with a single account seem to be getting the unlimited storage.
Using ACD with Plex, for me, as been nothing but great. There have been occasional issues with library scans using Plex Cloud but once the media has been scanned by plex playback has been outstanding.
@hthighway said:
Using ACD with Plex, for me, as been nothing but great. There have been occasional issues with library scans using Plex Cloud but once the media has been scanned by plex playback has been outstanding.
Yep though I haven’t had an Invite yet, I am kinda running Plex in the cloud. My online server has plex installed and acd mounted to it. Direct playback has always been perfect even with high bit rate files. This is to myself and two friends I share with simultaneously, whilst uploading with rclone. In a similar fashion to what you mention about scanning I have to restart plex for it so see new media. I tend to do this once a day out of hours…but then it’s only really a back up server if mine goes down away from home.
@lordcrumb said:
That sounds promising… how much media are we talking about, and how fast or slow were library updates? I assume you are a beta user?
With regards to Google for business… it’s probably a bit risky with the 1TB cap if they ever crack down on people…
If that was addressed to me I have uploaded 25TB so far. A duplicate of my TV show archive at home. And no…as mentioned I haven’t had the invite yet. It’s a server I rent that points to acd.
Library scans were close to normal. However as mentioned a restart of Plex is needed to see new media.
I’m simply highlighting that acd is extremely stable for streaming.
@lordcrumb said:
That sounds promising… how much media are we talking about, and how fast or slow were library updates? I assume you are a beta user?
With regards to Google for business… it’s probably a bit risky with the 1TB cap if they ever crack down on people…
If that was addressed to me I have uploaded 25TB so far. A duplicate of my TV show archive at home. And no…as mentioned I haven’t had the invite yet. It’s a server I rent that points to acd.
Library scans were close to normal. However as mentioned a restart of Plex is needed to see new media.
I’m simply highlighting that acd is extremely stable for streaming.
What tools do you use for uploading and mounting?
Personally I use rclone for uploading and acd-cli to mount ACD and have not seen the need to restart the server to get Plex to see new content. I do though unmount acdcli, run a acdcli sync and then mount again after anything gets uploaded.
@lordcrumb said:
That sounds promising… how much media are we talking about, and how fast or slow were library updates? I assume you are a beta user?
With regards to Google for business… it’s probably a bit risky with the 1TB cap if they ever crack down on people…
If that was addressed to me I have uploaded 25TB so far. A duplicate of my TV show archive at home. And no…as mentioned I haven’t had the invite yet. It’s a server I rent that points to acd.
Library scans were close to normal. However as mentioned a restart of Plex is needed to see new media.
I’m simply highlighting that acd is extremely stable for streaming.
What tools do you use for uploading and mounting?
Personally I use rclone for uploading and acd-cli to mount ACD and have not seen the need to restart the server to get Plex to see new content. I do though unmount acdcli, run a acdcli sync and then mount again after anything gets uploaded.
Exactly that method.
the box I use has buttons to restart all installed apps.
So I restart acd and Plex. You’re probably right and i may only need to restart/remount acd.
I just figured while I’m in the interface restarting one I may as well do both.
The box runs Sonarr too. So after uploading a show I then point Sonarr to acd temporarily. Purely as a quick and easy was to check that everything has uploaded correctly.
Not that it applies directly to the thread or Plex Cloud, but I have been having issues uploading pictures to ACD via Synology’s Cloud Sync as well. This issue is DEFINITELY bigger than Plex. Also, it appears the PMS Cloud servers live in Azure land, not Amazon land, so that is yet another potential point of difficulty with the Plex Cloud project.
@hthighway said: RCLONE is great, if you have a lot of bandwidth it will use all of it, if you let it, to push content to ACD
Yeah I’m very new to it and still learning some of its features. But as a strictly windows gui kiddie who falls over even using command prompt normally, it’s pretty easy to learn as I go.
By the way apart from your ninja status here, are you a developer on something outside of Plex? I’m sure I stumbled across you whilst reading up on altering my server automation. I’m probably wrong and definitely off topic lol.
