If you're using Windows then Foobar 2000 is great. I use it for manually managing and tidying my collection in addition to converting pretty much any format to any other format.
That being said, you can install it as a snap in Linux as well if that's your poison.
And base model still unavailable in the UK.
If I was just buying for myself I could live with the mid range price point. But for four kids that's a lot of money to shell out.
I've got a better chance of buying buying crocodile tears or hens teeth.
Great article, so many memories flooded back thinking about those games. Although it's horrible to think that Sabre Wulf is 40 next year.
That thought does not make me feel any younger.
I remember first playing the original arcade on a cross channel ferry to France as part of a school trip.
Still a great game that my kids can't play as it's too hard for them.
And shouldn't be so tall that you need a winch to get over them without trashing the bottom of your car like the new ones near to where I live.
Also using Jellyfin and it's great.
Regarding the number of different clients, yes they have less than Plex but remember Jellyfin is a free product and is a considerably younger project so more clients will come in time.
I run a Jellyfin add-on with my Kodi setup and it runs great and streams to three of my mother's LG TVs, one uses a web client as the official client hadn't been signed off by LG, another uses the official client (LG run multiple versions of their WebOS) and the third runs the official client on fire stick from the Amazon app store.
CRT displays hanging from massive brackets really date a show.
Absolutely second Unraid, easy to set up, Parity drive gives you protection against drive failure and dockers are an immense bonus. I have Jellyfish as a docker to serve my media around my home or when I'm out and about. Can use Gelli on Android just to listen to the music on my server.
Other plus, Unraid is essentially a JBOD so you can increase its size when ever you need to.
Think I paid £60-70 about 8-9 years ago and it's been worth every penny.
Can't praise it enough.
Do they names represent anything like in jokes?
I see Bydo and that always reminds me of the Bydo Empire from R-Type from the 80s
I haven't tried Connect either :-)
Really enjoying Liftoff though and would certainly suggest giving it a go.
Bit late to this party but R-Type was one of favourites at the arcades and back when ther were so many outstanding games.
I occasionally get my kids to try them and despite the fact the controls are so much easier they can't play them, the games are too hard!!!
I feel the same way about their games or at least the controls, I feel like I need to learn to be a court stenographer to use the controls using multiple combos to do something. Pah I say!
I usually scan my media with Media Elch before I move it into Kodi/Jellyfin then I know the files and folders have the right names and all Metadata is correct.
TV shows are grabbed, named and tidied with pyMedusa.
I use Kodi on a RaspberryPi with the Jellyfin add-on so if I watch something remotely then the watched status is synced everywhere.