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Great read. Open question to any other readers: is there a best practice or common pattern to managing media and playlists? If I want to create different playli
by silicon2401 5y ago
Great read. Open question to any other readers: is there a best practice or common pattern to managing media and playlists? If I want to create different playlists referencing the same media (audio and video playlists), can I have one or more folders containing playlist files as long as the media stay put? Are playlist files compatible across media players?
My real-life goal is to have a library of media on a NAS and then various playlists played through various clients: my PC, a raspberry Pi, a PS2 with Freemcboot, etc. I also want to be able to combine playlists, like "rock" and "metal" music for example. Not sure where to get started.
- entropicdrifter 5y agoJellyfin has full playlist support. AFAIK it keeps the playlists themselves as text files on the Jellyfin server that just reference the media files themselves, wherever they may be. Adding playlists to your Jellyfin server does not seem to add files onto your NAS, in my experience. That's just the default behavior, though. Could be that you could set it up to save the files to a folder in the NAS.
- silicon2401 5y agoThat's awesome, thanks for the response. I've been looking for a free and open source solution to media so this adds to my interest in jellyfin
- dsr_ 5y agoIn general, use the filesystem hierarchy consistently. /media/music/artist-or-composer/album/01_trackname.flac /media/video/seriesname/season/01_episode.mkv /media/music/playlists/ and construct your playlists in .m3u format, which is the nearest thing to a cross-player standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
- silicon2401 5y agoThanks very much, I remember that format now from before I streamed media. Seems like that should be at least a good starting point for what I want, I'll look into that further.