After adding my entire Blu-ray library to Jellyfin, physical discs feel obsolete
The author reflects on digitizing their Blu-ray library using Jellyfin, leading to a sense of obsolescence for physical discs. While they appreciate the aesthetic of a movie shelf, the convenience of streaming has changed their viewing habits. Ultimately, the author questions the necessity of keeping physical media around.
- ▪The author has started digitizing their Blu-ray library.
- ▪They find swapping discs less appealing compared to streaming.
- ▪Physical discs now feel more like an aesthetic choice than a necessity.
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| Original publisher | XDA Developers |
| Canonical URL | https://www.xda-developers.com/after-adding-my-entire-blu-ray-library-to-jellyfin-physical-discs-feel-obsolete/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 15:30:22 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T15:32:38.197Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T15:32:38.197Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qkOPNdVTCTsN |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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