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My environment consists of the following:
- I'm running Kodi on two devices.
- I currently have a giant media machine. This machine exists to serve up all of my media (six 1-3tb hard drives) and does nothing else.
- I also have a MariaDB server for Kodi so I can run Kodi without having to do a media scan on each device.
I'm considering switching away from Kodi for three primary reasons:
- Since version 19 was released, my TV shows don't always auto-play. As an example, I'll use Big Bang Theory. I select "All Episodes" so I can watch all episodes from all seasons one right after the other with no input on my part beyond picking a starting episode. My problem is that it does fine for the first five seasons, but when it gets to season 6, the auto-play doesn't work. This continues through then end of season 7, and then fixes itself in season 8 and beyond.
- When Kodi re-scans my media, it looses its mind and doesn't correctly identify movies (I suspect this might also be partly/mostly TMDB's fault). This leads to my biggest complaint
- There's no way I've found in Kodi that allows me to fix the movies without somehow finding out which file is being assigned the wrong name and trying to come up with a file name that TMDB can use (I'm guessing this is where it's going wrong).
In all of those reasons, the Kodi devs aren't in the slightest bit interested in helping to address the issues.
Before attempting to switch to JellyFin, I need to know the following:
- Does it have an auto-play feature for tv shows?
- Will it allow me to fix misidentified movies *in the interface* during/after scanning?
- Does it allow the use of a central database to allow several instances of jellyfin devices on the network to access it to get a list of movies on the server, or do I have to setup each device (scan the media server) individually?
If it does use a database,is it possible to lock a movie with the desired name so subsequent rescans don't mess it up?
Thanks in advance.
- I'm running Kodi on two devices.
- I currently have a giant media machine. This machine exists to serve up all of my media (six 1-3tb hard drives) and does nothing else.
- I also have a MariaDB server for Kodi so I can run Kodi without having to do a media scan on each device.
I'm considering switching away from Kodi for three primary reasons:
- Since version 19 was released, my TV shows don't always auto-play. As an example, I'll use Big Bang Theory. I select "All Episodes" so I can watch all episodes from all seasons one right after the other with no input on my part beyond picking a starting episode. My problem is that it does fine for the first five seasons, but when it gets to season 6, the auto-play doesn't work. This continues through then end of season 7, and then fixes itself in season 8 and beyond.
- When Kodi re-scans my media, it looses its mind and doesn't correctly identify movies (I suspect this might also be partly/mostly TMDB's fault). This leads to my biggest complaint
- There's no way I've found in Kodi that allows me to fix the movies without somehow finding out which file is being assigned the wrong name and trying to come up with a file name that TMDB can use (I'm guessing this is where it's going wrong).
In all of those reasons, the Kodi devs aren't in the slightest bit interested in helping to address the issues.
Before attempting to switch to JellyFin, I need to know the following:
- Does it have an auto-play feature for tv shows?
- Will it allow me to fix misidentified movies *in the interface* during/after scanning?
- Does it allow the use of a central database to allow several instances of jellyfin devices on the network to access it to get a list of movies on the server, or do I have to setup each device (scan the media server) individually?
If it does use a database,is it possible to lock a movie with the desired name so subsequent rescans don't mess it up?
Thanks in advance.