Jellyfin Media Catalog

[LlamaChileShop]

Hey!

New to jellyfin and am doing initial set-up.  Replacing Kodi.  

I have 9 NAS devices on my lan from which I serve media.  Within these devices are numbers of folders (nfs mountpoints), containing various media types: music, tv, movies, books, etc. 
Total number of NFS mount points: 36

Catalogers: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, Prowlarr, Flaresolverr, and Bizarr.
Fetchers: transmission and sabnzbd
My env is 100% docker free!!!

So, I'm adding Jellyfin (and Jellyseer) to this set-up that's been established for over a decade and is very stable.  Working, even.

I started adding mount directories to Jellyfin and then wondered: wait a sec:  sonarr and the other arrs have all my media files already cataloged. Location. Monitored. Aggregated. Tidy.

Can Jellyfin instantiate it's media catalog just from talking to the arr (api) services instead of redundantly scanning mount points?

I mean, it'd be optimal to have a single source of media authority right?  Instead of having to scan devices twice when you register them with your services?  I see Jellyfin as a media server; abstracting the catalogs (nfs shares) through the indexers create a single source of authority.  All Jellyfin should be asking is: where's dis? and then goes and serves the media.

Anyways, if there's a way to do this, instead of slow scanning all those nas devices, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it.  Bonus points for docker-free installation because I ain't afraid of no command line.

Thanks and apologies if I trundled off any sacred cows to the bbq...it wasn't my intention.  I vastly appreciate any help I can get!

--mike

[TheDreadPirate]

TLDR; no.

If you have NFOs and images saved with the media, though, you can disable all the online metadata providers and Jellyfin will use the NFOs and images you already have.

[LlamaChileShop]

Thank you for the quick reply.

I have over 3K movies, and more then 25,000 other media files (shows, books, etc.) across 50TB of nas devices.

Was thinking it'd be smarterer for Jellyfin to ask for the existing catalog rather than creating a new, second, one from scratch.

Interesting idea tho...

--mike