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I tried jellyfin after my most recent nas upgrade (pi5 w/ external drives). It seemed _really_ nice, but it also worked extremely badly for my specific use case
by Octoth0rpe 2y ago
I tried jellyfin after my most recent nas upgrade (pi5 w/ external drives). It seemed _really_ nice, but it also worked extremely badly for my specific use case. It seems to want a specific folder structure for all of your media, and its layout conflicted badly with my existing conventions. My partner has our media collection obsessively organized by country, then by genre. Jellyfin made some kind of attempt at categorizing this, and just ended up showing us tons of previews for things we did NOT have (eg, our British folder was interpreted as us having The Great British Baking Show, which we do NOT have). It seems like every media solution wants to ignore your folder structure and present some fake hierarchy, which really doesn't work at all for me.
We ended up buying an apple tv and installing the vlc app which connects via smb and is happy to show us the original folder structure.