2023-06-21, 02:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 2023-06-21, 02:16 AM by deslea. Edited 1 time in total.)
Is it possible for two instances of Jellyfin to refer to the same media source folder without issues?
My use case is this: I have a Jellyfin instance on my home server that has things TV-oriented - movies, tv shows, music videos etc. Let's call this the TV instance. I also have a separate instance for things audio-oriented (music etc). Let's call this the Music instance.
(The segregation is pretty much just a real-world-usage one - it doesn't help my productivity to see TV shows as an option when I'm looking for background music to work, LOL. I realise there are other ways of structuring this, like having it all in one instance and having user-based limits on what libraries appear, but let's work with what I have for now. I can look at restructuring if needed later).
Is there any reason the Music instance couldn't refer to the same music videos source folder already being used by the TV instance? I realise there is a possibility that one would overwrite the other's NFO changes, so I would envisage one being set to write metadata to the folder and the other not, but is there anything else that could go wrong?
Many thanks for any advice anyone can give.
My use case is this: I have a Jellyfin instance on my home server that has things TV-oriented - movies, tv shows, music videos etc. Let's call this the TV instance. I also have a separate instance for things audio-oriented (music etc). Let's call this the Music instance.
(The segregation is pretty much just a real-world-usage one - it doesn't help my productivity to see TV shows as an option when I'm looking for background music to work, LOL. I realise there are other ways of structuring this, like having it all in one instance and having user-based limits on what libraries appear, but let's work with what I have for now. I can look at restructuring if needed later).
Is there any reason the Music instance couldn't refer to the same music videos source folder already being used by the TV instance? I realise there is a possibility that one would overwrite the other's NFO changes, so I would envisage one being set to write metadata to the folder and the other not, but is there anything else that could go wrong?
Many thanks for any advice anyone can give.