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@JohnPhilpin I find that subtitles are really abridged, and close to the meaning but often not very precise and not equivalent to close captions. I speculate that dubs and subtitles serve different goals.

@UndamnedOne I only just learned about Jellyfin, or I might have chosen it over Plex. The functionality looks great! Once I've finished ingesting the majority of the physical media I'm hopeful I can scale down from the current elderly XEON mid-tower to a Raspberry Pi or similar class of device. I'm on the fence about how hard to try to capture Vinyl or Casette, because there's stuff I love that I haven't found other ways. Probably no one I know cares as much as me, but I want to see how well it can be done.

@grubz I thought about that but the mechanism needs more work. The unit itself is mid-fi and even if I was able to find a shop that would look at it, the time and effort would cost multiples of the initial purchase price

@JohnPhilpin I feel like it's a modest luxury now that I have the disk space to go lossless. But yeah, one has to really want it.

@the So. I am re-ripping audio CDs twice. Once to WAV, via Exact Audio Copy on Windows. Serving via Plex. Doing my best to capture Enhanced CD content and DVD content, also serving via Plex. The Enhanced CD content is Lo-Fi and messy. Also ripping CDs into Apple Music a second time, replacing MP3 files at various bitrates with Apple Lossless. Ripping DVDs and Blu-Ray via same Windows workstation, using MakeMKV and serving MKV files via Plex. I haven't decided on whether or not I'm going to compress to MP4 for Apple Home Sharing. I'm really concerned Apple's Home Sharing is a product nearing end-of-life, hence the effort on the Plex side. Consumption is via Apple TVs and 5.1 capable receivers.