Browse Folder Which is Monitored but not Indexed

[pavichokche]

My goal is to have a way to browse and play videos from a folder on the machine which my server runs on, but not to actually scrape stuff from that folder into any library. I don't mind having to go into the 'Folders' so I think I just need to somehow create a mixed library which stays hidden and is monitored without actually indexing anything.

Version: 10.8.10
Operating System: Windows
Architecture: X64

[TheDreadPirate]

You can't control the visibility of media in the way you are describing. You can specify which libraries are visible to which users in the Users Dashboard. If you don't want it scraping for metadata you can turn off all metadata providers.

1. Create library with all metadata providers disabled.
2. Remove access to this library from other users.

I think that is the way to get it the closest to what you are describing.

[pavichokche]

You can't control the visibility of media in the way you are describing.  You can specify which libraries are visible to which users in the Users Dashboard.  If you don't want it scraping for metadata you can turn off all metadata providers.

1.  Create library with all metadata providers disabled.
2.  Remove access to this library from other users.

I think that is the way to get it the closest to what you are describing.

Thank you! I was wondering what would happen if I simply disabled all the scrapers but wanted to check with the experts in the forums first in case there was an easier solution. Anyway, this works perfectly! Thanks a bunch