This is my first time hearing about Pixel Brite, what's the history behind it?
History- I started it last year the night before my birthday so I guess it's kinda like a midlife crisis. I've been working on it relentlessly since and kind of want a real job at this point just so I can take PTO.
testflite@pixelbrite.site if interested
There's going to be a very generous free tier and everyone's getting Pixel Brite+ for the foreseeable future.
Free includes all the table stakes features; hardware acceleration, remote access, adaptive bitrates, gapless, lossless, etc.
I may limit superfluous things like the metadata fidelity, make you watch one of those old timey before-the-movie reels "Let's all goto the lobby and get ourselves some snacks!", disable niceties like automatically playing similar music when the queue ends (like Spotify), themes... things like that.
What are your thoughts? Is there anything in particular you're looking out for?
It helps me guard against things like "Hey, this company decided to remove this feature that I use a lot (cough cough, watch together on Plex), or put something behind a paid wall where it was previously free".
With open source, I can at least fork/pin it from some version and merge things from upstream that I want, which is the reason why I was looking at Jellyfin.