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> Looks nice, but never seen so many rules on file organization. A good media manager would be able to sort that stuff out automatically. Am I missing something
by crispyambulance 4y ago
> Looks nice, but never seen so many rules on file organization. A good media manager would be able to sort that stuff out automatically. Am I missing something?
I feel the same way. It's sort of reminds me of Plex. Why are they making the same mistakes (regarding file-organization) as Plex?!
The thing is everyone has different ideas about how files should be named and organized. Plex really wants you to name your media files in a particular way, and I find that annoying.
After all, the Plex server maintains a database.
One should be able to point Plex to ANY media file, with ANY filename in ANY accessible filepath, fill in metadata and organizational tags for that media, and have that info useable by the client. But for whatever reason, Plex instead enforces weird naming conventions on your actual filenames and practically forces people to use software like filebot to mass-rename files.
It doesn't help, of course, that media file formats are a jungle with unreliable garbage meta-data in the files and widely varying limitations on what you can put in there.