2023-08-23, 02:53 PM
There's more info in the documentation, but tldr you'll want to create a directory on your jellyfin server that is readable and writable by jellyfin, I usually create that folder somewhere other than home, but you can do something like '/home/jellyfin' and put stuff there (I'd avoid doing it under /home/youruser as that can make things difficult to set permissions properly sometimes for JF; but others in here may have had more luck and they can let you know how/why they did things that way). If you want JF to then be able to find the media you will have to open the JF dashboard->library->"Add media library" and select/type in your libraries. If you don't see the folders (or get 'permission denied'-esk errors, double check that the JF user (if running bare metal), or the docker container have access to these folders. You can add more media by putting it into these created folders (either through filezilla if you have (s)ftp seet up, or simply by plugging in a usb stick and copy/pasteing). Note that the docs also have information for how to name your files and subdirs. so that jellyfin is able to identify them properly.