I’m suppperrr excited to test out plex cloud and as soon as I heard about it I signed up right away. Its been almost 2 weeks and I haven’t gotten it. How long might it take for me to get to use it?
No way of knowing. I strongly suggest you read along in the countless other threads.
You’ll find there are some serious issues on the Amazon side with uploading media (not even plex’s fault) which are impacting the testing / shakedown.
As @ChuckPa said…
@ChuckPa said:
No way of knowing. I strongly suggest you read along in the countless other threads.You’ll find there are some serious issues on the Amazon side with uploading media (not even plex’s fault) which are impacting the testing / shakedown.
Well the uploading side of things isnt my concern, I already have 40TB in acd its just being able to use it
@ColeMundus said:
@ChuckPa said:
No way of knowing. I strongly suggest you read along in the countless other threads.You’ll find there are some serious issues on the Amazon side with uploading media (not even plex’s fault) which are impacting the testing / shakedown.
Well the uploading side of things isnt my concern, I already have 40TB in acd its just being able to use it
Maybe not for you, but others will/are having still having the upload issues.
If i need elaborate based entirely on my own experience and what has been reported by others:
- Upload speeds are slow (writing to the cloud) and inconsistent.
- PMS reading from the cloud to stream. Do not confuse downloading from the cloud with whatever mechanism Amazon uses between cloud servers.
In a single sentence, Amazon I/O is slow/unstable and being worked on. It’s not giving PMS what it needs.
I do not see the beta advancing much, if any, until this basic level of functionality on Amazon’s side is resolved.
@ChuckPa said:
If i need elaborate based entirely on my own experience and what has been reported by others:
- Upload speeds are slow (writing to the cloud) and inconsistent.
- PMS reading from the cloud to stream. Do not confuse downloading from the cloud with whatever mechanism Amazon uses between cloud servers.
In a single sentence, Amazon I/O is slow/unstable and being worked on. It’s not giving PMS what it needs.
I do not see the beta advancing much, if any, until this basic level of functionality on Amazon’s side is resolved.
I’m so ready to pull the trigger on Amazon Unlimited, I click on the page almost every day ready to get started by beginning to upload my ~16TB of media. These issues are enough to make me think that maybe I should wait just a little longer.
@“Stewie Griffin”
The best tool we’ve found for uploading to Amazon is rclone . Their ACD client just doesn’t cut it, imho.
Your sentiment is exactly why I keep trying to tell everyone else to calm down, be patient, and why Plex Cloud is till early in the Alpha / Beta testing.
If you have rclone and a decent upload speed, your content will get up there a lot faster and easier. Rclone keeps working until it succeeds, Amazon’s tool will give up on the file forcing you to try again manually.
I uploaded my entire media collection of ripped movies and TV shows (about 7TB) with rclone in 131 hours. I’m on 100/100 FTTH line.
Works great.
So I know rclone is cmd line, but can you just drag and drop into the terminal window instead of typing everything?
No… That’s why it’s “command line”. Terminal windows do not support drag & drop. They only support copy/paste of text.
@ChuckPa said:
No… That’s why it’s “command line”. Terminal windows do not support drag & drop. They only support copy/paste of text.
Not 100% true 
On OSX you can can drag&drop Folders and Files on the terminal and it writes the location, which can be useful if the folder you’re using is kinda “deep” down in a folder structure.
That’s not the terminal window doing that. That’s the Desktop Manager performing the translation. The fundamental interface (under all the drag & drop) mechanisms is the file/path name. They’ve always worked that way.
In Linux, if I drag an item (file for example) onto my terminal window. The Desktop manager passes the pathname. The Terminal window accepts the implied paste and makes it look like this (when I drag photo XC-1.jpg), I get the pathname pasted.
[chuck@lizum ~.52]$ '/home/chuck/XC-1.jpg'
If that is the desired functionality, then I will agree it’s a qualified yes and agree to be corrected. That is the limit of the functionality. It’s not like having a graphical UI and it doing the rest of the work .
I’m currently using Goodsync to sync to Amazon and it’s pretty fast and won’t quit until it finishes. Been a Goodsync user for years.
