some questions and suggestions

Bart274 · 12-20-2013, 02:58 PM

Hi,

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I'm new to Calibre and have some questions and suggestions.

- I really love Plex, I use it manage all my video, music and photos with it so I can watch everything on all my devices. It would be great if we could have a plugin for Plex so we can connect our Calibre library with it. (Maybe you could even work together with them so we can have it fully integrated)
- It would be great if we could have a better server webclient so we can manage our library through that client. I mostly use my ipad but it's a pain in the *** to edit my library through Teamviewer. It would be nice if we could edit some information about our books online if our server is running or let our server convert some books on the fly through the server web client.
- It would be great if we could have native apps on Android and iOS to browse through our library and read those books in that same app. Now I'm using the web browser to download a book and open it in two different apps (one for comics and one for books).
- It would be nice if we could sync bookmarks using the calibre server (this will only work in the native apps I think)
- It would be a nice feature if we could share only specific sections of our library with some friends

This is my vision for a perfect library system:
Calibre and Plex integrate with each other. Our metadata gets downloaded automatically when we add new books. The Plex clients allow us to sync bookmarks over all our devices, it could detect the device we use our client on and select automatically the best conversion of the book for that specific device and even convert it when we ask to download that book.

What do you think about this? Do you think this is something that can/will happen in the future?

Sincerely,
Bart

BetterRed · 12-20-2013, 04:00 PM

Perhaps some of your Android and Apple 'wishes' are covered by the stickies in here ==>> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=234

BR

theducks · 12-20-2013, 04:02 PM

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Bart274 · 12-30-2013, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Perhaps some of your Android and Apple 'wishes' are covered by the stickies in here ==>> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=234

BR

not all my wishes are covered there. I was really hoping for a more integrated way of handling my library on my devices, a plex like service would be awesome.

cybmole · 12-31-2013, 01:34 AM

IHMO - avoid plex like the plague until they fix/improve its use of app data. I added plex, on default scan settings, and it created, I kid you not, a quarter of a million extra files/folders in app data.
it creates a folder + some files for each an every media item it finds on the PC, so if you ever let it near a large photo or music collection you get this huge bloat.

you get a folder somewhere in app data that has so many entries that win 7 will hang if you even just ask it nicely to count them for you & you have to use task manager to regain control.

not the sort of design & coding that Kovid would produce

Bart274 · 12-31-2013, 04:58 AM

everything works great for me with plex and I have a lot of episodes and movies in my library.
plex uses the app data folder to keep your metadata in one place and uses hashes to improve searching. I have no problems whatsoever with it

cybmole · 12-31-2013, 08:15 AM

yes, it works ok - except that streaming to PS3 is crap, but that's donw to PS3 design), but have those guys never heard of relational databases - creating 250,000 files in order to "speed up searches" is a joke - widows indexer does that with 1 database file.

I shudder to think how many extra files & folders it would create if it was allowed into my calibre library.

now you could say: well, disc space is cheap, so who cares how many files it creates; but then you wonder why it's taking an extra hour every time you defrag/optimise your hard drive.....

I did keep it a while for movies, after forcing it NOT to index mp3s, photos, you could probably trick it indexing your books if you really want it to. you just need to somehow tell it that epub is a media file format & it will happily stuff your app data folder with hundreds of thousands of new entries

but seriously, Plex's raison d-etre is streaming media for a library to a range of devices. you can't stream an epub!.

calibre already as a server option.

12-20-2013, 02:58 PM	#1
Bart274 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: iPad	some questions and suggestions Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I'm new to Calibre and have some questions and suggestions. - I really love Plex, I use it manage all my video, music and photos with it so I can watch everything on all my devices. It would be great if we could have a plugin for Plex so we can connect our Calibre library with it. (Maybe you could even work together with them so we can have it fully integrated) - It would be great if we could have a better server webclient so we can manage our library through that client. I mostly use my ipad but it's a pain in the *** to edit my library through Teamviewer. It would be nice if we could edit some information about our books online if our server is running or let our server convert some books on the fly through the server web client. - It would be great if we could have native apps on Android and iOS to browse through our library and read those books in that same app. Now I'm using the web browser to download a book and open it in two different apps (one for comics and one for books). - It would be nice if we could sync bookmarks using the calibre server (this will only work in the native apps I think) - It would be a nice feature if we could share only specific sections of our library with some friends This is my vision for a perfect library system: Calibre and Plex integrate with each other. Our metadata gets downloaded automatically when we add new books. The Plex clients allow us to sync bookmarks over all our devices, it could detect the device we use our client on and select automatically the best conversion of the book for that specific device and even convert it when we ask to download that book. What do you think about this? Do you think this is something that can/will happen in the future? Sincerely, Bart

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12-31-2013, 01:34 AM	#5
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	IHMO - avoid plex like the plague until they fix/improve its use of app data. I added plex, on default scan settings, and it created, I kid you not, *a quarter of a million extra files/folders in app data.* it creates a folder + some files for each an every media item it finds on the PC, so if you ever let it near a large photo or music collection you get this huge bloat. you get a folder somewhere in app data that has so many entries that win 7 will hang if you even just ask it nicely to count them for you & you have to use task manager to regain control. not the sort of design & coding that Kovid would produce

12-31-2013, 04:58 AM	#6
Bart274 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: iPad	everything works great for me with plex and I have a lot of episodes and movies in my library. plex uses the app data folder to keep your metadata in one place and uses hashes to improve searching. I have no problems whatsoever with it

12-31-2013, 08:15 AM	#7
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	yes, it works ok - except that streaming to PS3 is crap, but that's donw to PS3 design), but have those guys never heard of relational databases - creating 250,000 files in order to "speed up searches" is a joke - widows indexer does that with 1 database file. I shudder to think how many extra files & folders it would create if it was allowed into my calibre library. now you could say: well, disc space is cheap, so who cares how many files it creates; but then you wonder why it's taking an extra hour every time you defrag/optimise your hard drive..... I did keep it a while for movies, after forcing it NOT to index mp3s, photos, you could probably trick it indexing your books if you really want it to. you just need to somehow tell it that epub is a media file format & it will happily stuff your app data folder with hundreds of thousands of new entries but seriously, Plex's raison d-etre is streaming media for a library to a range of devices. you can't stream an epub!. calibre already as a server option.