Moving from Kodi

[jsimmonstx]

My environment consists of the following:

- I'm running Kodi on two devices.
- I currently have a giant media machine. This machine exists to serve up all of my media (six 1-3tb hard drives) and does nothing else.
- I also have a MariaDB server for Kodi so I can run Kodi without having to do a media scan on each device.

I'm considering switching away from Kodi for three primary reasons:

- Since version 19 was released, my TV shows don't always auto-play. As an example, I'll use Big Bang Theory. I select "All Episodes" so I can watch all episodes from all seasons one right after the other with no input on my part beyond picking a starting episode. My problem is that it does fine for the first five seasons, but when it gets to season 6, the auto-play doesn't work. This continues through then end of season 7, and then fixes itself in season 8 and beyond. 

- When Kodi re-scans my media, it looses its mind and doesn't correctly identify movies (I suspect this might also be partly/mostly TMDB's fault). This leads to my biggest complaint

- There's no way I've found in Kodi that allows me to fix the movies without somehow finding out which file is being assigned the wrong name and trying to come up with a file name that TMDB can use (I'm guessing this is where it's going wrong).

In all of those reasons, the Kodi devs aren't in the slightest bit interested in helping to address the issues.

Before attempting to switch to JellyFin, I need to know the following:

- Does it have an auto-play feature for tv shows?
- Will it allow me to fix misidentified movies *in the interface* during/after scanning?
- Does it allow the use of a central database to allow several instances of jellyfin devices on the network to access it to get a list of movies on the server, or do I have to setup each device (scan the media server) individually?
If it does use a database,is it possible to lock a movie with the desired name so subsequent rescans don't mess it up?

Thanks in advance.

[conor]

1. It'll vary by the client but they do generally have an auto play next up feature.
2. In the context menu for a movie there's an identify option to search the TMDB and choose the correct item. This is in the webui & android clients but TV based clients don't tend to have admin functions available.
3. Unlike Kodi it is built to use the server/ client model. So multiple users/ clients all work off the same database.
4. There isn't a lock function but when a film is correctly identified a subsequent scan doesn't mess it up unless the filename is changed.

Btw, there's a jellyfin addon for kodi which works well.

[WWWesten]

If it does use a database,is it possible to lock a movie with the desired name so subsequent rescans don't mess it up?

4. There isn't a lock function but when a film is correctly identified a subsequent scan doesn't mess it up unless the filename is changed.

It's in the context menu, under Edit metadata.
   

[KodiUser1138]

Using Jellyfin as your server and Kodi as your client for the easy TV interface experience is AWESOME. It sounds like you need to do a bit more learning on managing your media libraries though. Believe me there are some tough lessons early but once you figure out a few things it makes future life so much simpler. First and foremost, make sure you use a proper naming convention and then ensure all media related files are saved locally. Most important is the NFO files for much easier identification of the media in the future when, not if, your database dies.

If you use JF as your media scraping service it can do all that. Or within Kodi the same but you need to manually export the metadata/artwork files after.

A dedicated media machine is a great idea. If you think 6 1-3TB drives is giant though... well, can't imagin what you'd call 35 4-24 TB drives!