2025-12-17, 09:00 PM
(2025-12-16, 01:05 PM)luckless Wrote:(2025-12-15, 08:40 PM)rlue Wrote:(2025-12-15, 01:07 PM)JF2025 Wrote: @Derfel The mixed libraries option is legacy and probably should come with a warning not to use.
There is a post from 4 years ago on Reddit r/jellyfin from a Jellyfin Team member saying: "Mixed libraries are basically never the right answer. It's really hard for the scanner to correctly identify a media type based on a folder name, and support for them in clients is frustrating at best. That library option is mostly there for legacy reasons."
They go on to say: "it was there when we forked, nobody has removed it yet, and if we remove it now a small subset of people will revolt."
I appreciate the clarification, but I would ask how users are supposed to handle niche / independent content which maybe you don't expect there to exist public metadata for at all, and which doesn't fit neatly into the existing categories? For instance, I have a collection of instructional VHS/DVD/YouTube content (and another collection of academic lectures) ripped to my library, where some of it is serial and some is one-off. I would really like to avoid creating two separate "How-To (Movies)" / "How-To (Series)" libraries.
I don't necessarily need Jellyfin to fetch metadata and cover art for me; are there existing library types that support this use case? I really do think that, at a minimum, this use case should be acknowledged in the docs and forums, even if only to say "We don't officially support a way of doing this yet." Surely, I can't be the only one who has a whole collections of obscure media types that you wouldn't expect to find on tmdb or omdb?
(also congratulations to the devs on another release; always very grateful for the free software 🙇🏻)
There is "home videos and photos" library type which I use for a use case similar to yours.
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