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Not open source but still very usefull and self hosted : http://plex.tv

Ampache is cool but is really heavy for a simple hosting. Plex does movies and tv shows sort too. Place a Transmission / Deluge torrent client behind, you have a true media center, on a little server.

Owncloud is cool but very buggy !

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> Owncloud is cool but very buggy !

Sorry that you experienced bugs. Just to ensure that we fix any potential bug: Could you file those as described at https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md? Thanks a lot!

I would recommend checking out SyncThing first for anyone curious about ownCloud. They have similarities and differences, I found SyncThing suited my needs more personally but there's some stuff that only ownCloud can do.

There's also BitTorrent Sync which is cool, but sadly proprietary.

Plex hadn't worked for me when I tried it out of curiosity some years ago. Some devices worked, some had failed to discover it at all. IIRC, the network was fine and it seemed like some issue with their DLNA/SSDP implementation but I haven't bothered to debug proprietary software. Installed MediaTomb and it worked reliably nearly out-of-the-box.

A open source alternative to plex would be http://emby.media.

Hey Mooty, nice that you like ownCloud. However, »very buggy« is not very specific. It would be cool if you could open actual issues in our tracker at https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/ so we can actually fix it.

Thanks! :)

> Owncloud is cool but very buggy

That's not my experience at all. It's been running solid for a year now, on a lowly VPS and two MacBooks. It's got very nice Debian packages and an excellent iOS client.

I think it's rude to just say "very buggy" and leave it at that.

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