Mmmm... http://www.slideshare.net/shawneldridge14/plex-cloudsync
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Is this 'official' ?
I can see how a service like Cloudsync would be handy for very small collections, ie mostly music, photos and some home movies.
But for anyone with a proper collection, ie all their boxsets, blurays and dvds, are going to need crazy amounts of online storage, even with transcoding. Will cloudsync attempt to intelligently "guess" the media the user is currently watching and pre-emptively upload related media to the cloud for potential viewing later?
I'm happy right now with the myplex functionality that allows me to access my media outside the home as my server is turned on 24 / 7. The only trouble is my current broadband upload speed at 1mb which restricts the quality I can enjoy remotely quite a bit. This is due to be upgraded to fibre later in the year though (5mb+ upload) so I can't wait. I'll be able to share my library with my parents as well!
My guess is it would be similar to the current plexSync functionality, which allows you to do one of the following:
- Select specific episodes to sync to your device
- Select a specific season to sync to your device
- Select a specific show to sync to your device
- Select a specific section to sync to your device (e.g. TV)
The first option is just syncing something specific, however the last three allow you to set the syncing to unwatched only, and then set a limit of say 10, in this scenario for example you would get the first 10 unwatched episodes (eps 1 - 10) of a season, once you watch episode 1, episode 11 starts to transcode and then sync, so as you watch each episode, the next unsynced unwatched episode is transcoded and synced.
It sounds like CloudSync is the way to go but does anyone have any idea when it is going to happen? I have subscribed to Plex and so far I am quite happy with it but with Cloudsync it would take it beyond having just a streaming Service....which for me it is at the moment. I can't see much of a difference between Plex and Amazon Music Player....they both can stream Music but the advantage with Amazon is you don't have to have your computer running to access your music files. Whereas if Plex could introduce CloudSync I think you could link to the cloud eg. Betcasa and then you could stream files via Plex......as long as you had a internet connection
Is that correct?
Please forgive me if I have got things wrong as I have only got Plex and I am a Newbie but I'm trying to learn as quickly as possible
You've essentially got it right, the only thing to note is you would need to tell the plex server which items to sync to your cloud provider and wait for it to upload before you can stream from the said cloud provider
Marty, thanks for your answer. Do you know when CloudSync is going to come to Plex?.........it keeps on saying soon but when is soon meaning 6 months away or a year away?
At the moment in my opinion and what I want out of Music Streaming.....Amazon Music Player is the one for me. If CloudSync came to Plex then they would be way out in the lead......I could not only stream Music from favourite Cloud Provider (which at the moment is Betacasa) but also watch movies I had uploaded to the cloud. At the moment I can only use Plex if my main computer is running. I'm thinking that if I was on Foriegn Holiday and near a Internet Wi-Fi I could stream Music and Movies without having my computer at home running.
Recently we were in Malta and I could listen to Music Streaming from Amazon Music Player and if I wanted to watch Movies I brought my 500Gb Seagate Go-Flex Satelite which has it's on server....it's a great device especially with the Hack in place which lets me surf the internet.......but with CloudSync + Plex it would give me even more freedom and I wouldn't need to bring the Go-Flex.........less tech equipment to bring on holiday and not be stolen. It's a wonder more companies are not trying to provide this....to me it seems to be the future. Maybe this is harder to achieve than I think and that's why it is taking so long and that is why no others have suggested it......I don't know
I'm not entirely sure when it's released, all I know is the original post from I think Engadget was from CES, where the Plex team was showing a demo version that's still in development. As with all the awesome features that are developed it's a surprise, waiting seems to pay off.
A new DropBox competitor has launched, which gives you 15 GB for free, and possibility to get more space for free by referring (lots more than DropBox).... maybe the team can look into adding support for this provider as well?
copy.com
They have an API: https://www.copy.com/developer
is there still no news on cloudsync? I am still very much hoping for this to come to bitcasa or an equivalent soon!
New to Plex. Love it for home but really don't want/need a box on 24/7 there. Cloudsync seems perfect extension to Plex for me - any word yet on Cloudsync?
I saw this popped up in the bottom right of my plex client today, "Thanks for logging in, welcome to cloud plex!", I obviously instanted wanted to know what it was and jumped on here.
Honestly? I see no use for it, it may be nice if you have infinite money and yet have no ability to upgrade your internet connection nor common sense, however, anyone in their right mind (Who has an hour or two to spare) would be swerving far far away from dropbox to store large replacable files like movies, music and audio. At dropbox's current pricing, $1/1Gig/1Year, it means you'll be paying the price of the movie per year just to store it, and, that's assuming you have a pretty poor quality version (10ishGB per movie). I know some people might use this for a month or two if they're going away, or, are no longer going to be within a LAN proximity to their nodes that store the data, however, personally, I'd rather just lease a low-end dedi/VPS with a 100Mbit connection and a couple hundred GB worth of space, drop plex on there and be happy. Personally, I've recently been leasing one of Ovh's KimSufi dedis (1TB space, $15/month) and I've got zero complaints. I'm not too sure what their ToS state on storing movies there, as, I personally am not using it for that purpose, however, it seems **a lot** cheaper than dropbox if you're willing to invest a tiny bit of time.
On another note, wouldn't this completely cut down on features that Plex can offer? Due to the fact that dropbox is just a file hoster, the client can no longer ask the plex server for a lower quality video if bandwidth is getting tied up, use server-sided plugins (Such as trakt.tv), or even keep watch status (Unless, of course, it then submits that data to another server, at which point then we have to ask, why hasn't plex server syncronization (E.G. watch status) been implemented yet?).
Still no news 
I hope Hubic from OVH to be supported as Hubic propose 25Gb for free And 100Gb for 15€ a year a Great solution to sync more content at low price …
I think 25 Gb is a good buffer in the cloud for unwached TV shows.
I noticed when syncing to Google Drive the transfer pretty much shuts off any other network access to my Linux Plex server. Is there a way to throttle the transfer? In testing some bigger transfers I found that the location of the Cache folder was not tunable so I had to use a symbolic link to relocate it to a larger drive. My only issue at the moment is the upload to Google Drive is taking up all of the bandwidth on my network, which is annoying (unless I do it at night). Anyone have suggestions for a work around?
If I sync to Dropbox, and my notebook has the PlexCloudSync folder synchronized locally via the Dropbox client, will Plex use the local files, or should I deselect that folder for synchronization?
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