#Plex on mac pro pro
#Plex on mac pro plus

I turned my older MacBook Pro whose screen had been totally demolished into storage Library for home movies and commercially protected DVD movies I was ABLE to rip (Ripping those was not easy because High Sierra and El Capitan are the 2 OS on my Macs and those particular 2 OS HELP the copy protection features on those commercial DVD's- I was able to find one program that would rip about 1 in 3 of my collection of 200 Commercially protected DVD movies. Plex can act as a DLNA server as well, so even devices that don't have a specific Plex client can stream media.Д¬lark, you continue to be the only person I've ever known who doesn't like Plex. When I travel, the iOS client automatically tracks my home server IP and allows me access to all of my ripped content. Streaming (both local to the server and remotely) is free, however, and works great. Some of the Plex Passholder-only features include syncing media from the remote server to the iOS client for off-line viewing, syncing media to cloud storage, and automatic syncing new photos from your iOS device to the server. And while the Plex sever and client modules are free, as is most of its functionality, certain key functions that may (or may not) matter to you require a paid 'Plex Pass' recurring subscription, or one-time 'lifetime' payment (last time I checked I think it was $120 for the lifetime pass). Plex will do everything you ask, including centrally storing photos, and your old MBP is more than enough machine to act as a server for it. I didn't see an appropriate topic/thread to post this question, sorry if I missed the correct location. I had semi-experience with a NAS when i owned a Time Capsule, but I never got buy in/use from the family.ДЄny suggestions for using the older Macbook as some kind of server to allow for storage of old and new media and allowing me to keep my new Macbook Pro relatively clean of crap that was accumulated over 5 years of life? I have seen Plex, and it looks like an easy solution for music and movies but I'm not sure about photos.

I'm hoping to put the older Macbook Pro out to pasture as some kind of shared drive, NAS, media server etc so that the old media files can be accessed while storing new media as acquired. My household also has a daughters Macbook Pro, one iPad, multiple iPhones and an Apple TV gen 3, so having those devices also accessing the photos, movies and music would be a plus. Currently, we curate all our music and movies in iTunes and photos in Apple Photos.

#Plex on mac pro plus

Over the last 5 to 10 years of Mac use, I've picked up 500 GB plus of music, movies and photos that i can't bring over to the new computer due to the smaller SSD. I just purchased a new Macbook Pro with arrival in the next month. My late 2011 Macbook Pro is nearing end of life, the iGPU is dying, making the system unstable due to random shutdowns.