I've worked one of two ways in the past, just play individual files with VLC which pretty much always just works, but of course you have to know your directory structure and know what you want when you go looking.
Have you tried Plex Media Server? It will present all your media
like KODI.. I'll have a look... s'pose the next question is does it have any kind of auditing for missing/removed files.. I did't have it in
place long but th at was one of my main problems with KODI.
the same items. So what's anyone doing with their collection to try and keep an orderly eye on things?
Having beaten the network into submission, and aside from an odd
teething problem its working like a champ. I find I'm looking for
something to organise the video collection.
...So what's anyone doing with their collection to try and keep
an orderly eye on things?
All I know about Plex is the name. I always figured it was something like
So I'm peering into Plex, it seems to be pretty anal about the conventions it wants to use for folder/file names. Is this a real problem or is it
I've used plex for years - its awesome.
It will visually tell you what you havent watched, you can add items to a "play list", or even have it downloaded to a device for offline viewing.
And when you name your media files appropriately, it will go off and get the meta data for the media (image, actors, description, etc).
And if you are interested in multimedia with a specific actor, you can
list everything in your catalog with that actor, etc.
But does Plex operate completely offline? It sounds like it needs a WAN
Do I still need to register for a "free" account even if I am not interested in their streaming service of their movies or music? You don't need to login with iTunes to use it as a local DB or player.
If I had my druthers, I would would simply use iTunes to catalog
No need to reinvent the wheel - just work with the one that you got.
It will visually tell you what you havent watched, you can add items
to a "play list", or even have it downloaded to a device for offline viewing.
And when you name your media files appropriately, it will go off and
get the meta data for the media (image, actors, description,
etc).
All I do is rename my items with
<text>.<year>.<i .mp4|mkv, etc, as I drop it on the NAS.
I think the only important thing is the imdb_id, since sometimes
movies have a different name...
I can't find a reasonably straight forward how-to for plex. At the moment I have the pkg installed, and I can see it running there. I can't seem to coerce it into finding any media though, even with "Plex Media Scanner". I also can't convince the windows client to see the local server out there either....
You manage it by pointing to http://ip.address:32400/web
Not a fan of itunes, but I haven't looked at it since about 7.5 that
was the last version that would work with the ipod I still have
kicking around here somewhere. If I can get it fired up.... In fact
the whole ipod thing didn't work for me very well, I tended to prefer
the .mp3 player... just dump some goodies on there and play..
..Followed by KODI still I think.. despite being something of a
management pain in the past, it looks simple to drive for SWMBO....
I like iTune's ability to play lossless files. I was starting to
project. I mean.. what was the point when you can just look it up
with Spotify.
..Followed by KODI still I think.. despite being something
I never heard of KODI. It seems to be tied to a streaming service
Plex
I can't find a reasonably straight forward how-to for plex. At the
moment I have the pkg installed, and I can see it running there. I
can't seem to coerce it into finding any media though, even with "Plex Media Scanner". I also can't convince the windows client to see the
local server out there either....
I know you were talking to someone else, but you reminded me that
Plex was a thing. I think I'll implement Plex or some other kind
of Media-oriented streaming server as opposed to Samba.
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