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I hope this doesn't mean they are on the slippery slope of selling user data, thoughts?

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[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Roku client has made some amazing improvements and I’m thankful for those devs, but it’s still behind the Android version in terms of features.

Any features in particular you find yourself missing?

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For context, I run Jellyfin on a box at home that serves 3 Rokus and a family of 4. I also run Jellyfin at work, a small school, where it feeds 18 Rokus in wide variety of use cases.

There are two features on my wishlist that are available on Android but not yet Roku.

The first would be the ability to shuffle a playlist. I loved that shuffle was added episodes a while back.

Don't shame me for wanting to watch things in a random order. /s

The second would be the ability to search for subtitles. I love the new subtitles interface. It would be the cherry on top to be able to search for a missing subtitle without bouncing over to a separate devices.

I know that's a whole other kind of request, given the use of the open subtitles plugin.

Thank you for all you do!

[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

The first would be the ability to shuffle a playlist. I loved that shuffle was added episodes a while back.

This is possible today with the current release.

Click on your Playlist library. Then, on the grid of Playlists, highlight the one you want and instead of pressing "OK" press "Play" on your remote. It'll shuffle play the highlighted playlist.

For the subtitle one, I'm unsure what capabilities the API offers us and what functionality Roku would support, but it's at least worth taking a look and seeing what's possible.

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would have never stumbled upon playlist shuffling by myself. Wow! You have no idea how much you just made my day! Thank you!

[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I played around with the remote subtitles download this afternoon. I got it working. Still need to clean it up and get it looking nice, but here's a demo of it in action.

https://social.linux.pizza/@tgpo/111865510108311244

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

PR opened to merge the remote subtitle function into the next major release: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku/pull/1694

Here's a breakdown of how it works: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-movie-remote-subtitle-management?pid=15806

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe this happened because I made a comment on a Plex community. Thank you so much for even looking into this.

[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago