metadata storage

[metropical]

I just moved my music to a 4T WD Blue in a MacPro3,1.
The server runs on a LAN'd 2018 Mac mini.
Would moving the metadata to the internal SSD of the mini be a space and efficiency upgrade?
If that is possible, how would that be done?
Or perhaps point me to something to read that I haven't yet found.

[TheDreadPirate]

Is your music metadata currently in NFO files? IIRC, Jellyfin reads those when they are initially added to the library. After the initial scan, metadata is retrieved and served from the database until a change in the NFO is detected. I THINK if you simply removed the NFOs the metadata still exists in the Jellyfin database. It would be worth testing this out for a single album/artist.

[metropical]

nfo, so it would seem.
are you saying that if the nfo move worked and all was intact, then moving the metadata db to the internal should be OK?
Just to clarify, the internal on the mini.
All the music still resides on a 4TB in a LANd MacPro.

[metropical]

oh silly me. just looked and the meta is on the internal of the mini. giggle, giggle, giggle.

[TheDreadPirate]

nfo, so it would seem.
are you saying that if the nfo move worked and all was intact, then moving the metadata db to the internal should be OK?
Just to clarify, the internal on the mini.
All the music still resides on a 4TB in a LANd MacPro.

Yes.  When you add your music with the NFO, the NFO is read during the library scan and that information is put into the Jellyfin database.  When you view that music in your client, it is not retrieving the information from the NFO it is reading it from the database.

If you want to keep your NFOs to ensure consistent metadata if you ever had to rebuild Jellyfin, you can keep them.  If you want to reclaim the space,  you SHOULD be able to delete the NFOs since the data has already been ingested into Jellyfin's DB.  I can't imagine the disk space recovered would amount to much.

However, test this assumption on a single album or artist before mass deleting all your NFOs.

[metropical]

  I can't imagine the disk space recovered would amount to much.

However, test this assumption on a single album or artist before mass deleting all your NFOs.

yes, deleting nfo looks like it would amount to pocket change disk space recovery. Average nfo is 2kb.
thanks for looking in.