by Lowlander » Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:30 pm
I use MediaMonkey for music (DLNA playback and Sync), Vodcast downloading (but Plex for playback), Video (Sync (for local on device playback), but Plex for home network (Roku/Chromecast) and off network (online) streaming). Thanks to Roku/Chromecast I no longer use DLNA for video playback.
My problems with MediaMonkey are getting conversion right (Plex does this automatically for any client and so far this mostly works (had DLNA issues with Samsung, but Sony worked great with DLNA and Roku/Chromecast works flawless) and interface as DLNA provides a poor interface, whereas Plex through its clients provides a very rich (Netflix like) interface that is very user friendly (includes options for language tracks and subtitles). Plex also does an amazing job with auto-tagging video (does need to be in Plex defined file-naming and really only works for TV and Movies), but Plex falls seriously short in reading existing tags and it can't tag files (nor is the interface suitable for any serious tagging).
I use MediaMonkey for music (DLNA playback and Sync), Vodcast downloading (but Plex for playback), Video (Sync (for local on device playback), but Plex for home network (Roku/Chromecast) and off network (online) streaming). Thanks to Roku/Chromecast I no longer use DLNA for video playback.
My problems with MediaMonkey are getting conversion right (Plex does this automatically for any client and so far this mostly works (had DLNA issues with Samsung, but Sony worked great with DLNA and Roku/Chromecast works flawless) and interface as DLNA provides a poor interface, whereas Plex through its clients provides a very rich (Netflix like) interface that is very user friendly (includes options for language tracks and subtitles). Plex also does an amazing job with auto-tagging video (does need to be in Plex defined file-naming and really only works for TV and Movies), but Plex falls seriously short in reading existing tags and it can't tag files (nor is the interface suitable for any serious tagging).