2024-12-10, 09:31 PM
I just spent a few hours setting up jellyfin on my Synology NAS (as a container)
I really like this app!
Unfortunately, I am removing it because it requires a flat directory of media assets. My assets are organized in subfolders.
Every other tool I have tried or used, on servers, desktops and phones (plex, player apps, windows media player, roon, blackplayer, etc) happily indexes a whole directory structure.
Also, I need the structure for some sanity _outside_ the media server.
Even music, which is close to Jellyfin's needs, does not match the jellyfin spec:
My music is close, but watch:
/artist-1/album-a/track-1.flac // fine so far... 15K files organized like this!
/soundtracks/movie-a/track1.flac // oops! 1K files organized like this!
So basically, my feature request is: Keep the current approach as the default (if there are strong opinions about this), and add a "crawl subdirs" option to treat it as a dogs breakfast of stuff.
Love your great work and I will miss jellyfin!
I really like this app!
Unfortunately, I am removing it because it requires a flat directory of media assets. My assets are organized in subfolders.
Every other tool I have tried or used, on servers, desktops and phones (plex, player apps, windows media player, roon, blackplayer, etc) happily indexes a whole directory structure.
Also, I need the structure for some sanity _outside_ the media server.
Even music, which is close to Jellyfin's needs, does not match the jellyfin spec:
My music is close, but watch:
/artist-1/album-a/track-1.flac // fine so far... 15K files organized like this!
/soundtracks/movie-a/track1.flac // oops! 1K files organized like this!
So basically, my feature request is: Keep the current approach as the default (if there are strong opinions about this), and add a "crawl subdirs" option to treat it as a dogs breakfast of stuff.
Love your great work and I will miss jellyfin!