Just did that a month ago. My office is already filling up with strange equipment which I’m not 100% sure where I got it from. I feel enticed to plug it into something…
(/srs happy to answer Linux/Jellyfin questions btw)
I was a dumb dumb and set my system up on alpine with podman for jellyfin and such, but my GPU is nvidia so I can’t use the GPU for transcoding since nvidia container toolkit does not work on musl. What do you use for your setup? Podman? LXC? I mean I like alpine but the lack of GPU really sucks for jellyfin and also running ollama stuff
I installed the apt package on Debian. It runs bare-metal (no container) and comes with a pre-configured systemd unit. Runs instantly, no problems except making sure it has enough disk space.
Are you sure? I’ve been just dumping my files into a folder and Jellyfin manages fine. If it’s music, you only see the files in your “songs” tab though, not in any of the other ones. Slightly annoying since there’s no Multi-Select in the Songs tab if you want to add them to playlists, but you can definitely access them just fine
All I can say it isn’t this way for me. At the point where I made the move to jellyfin, my filenames where in all different types of formats. Jellyfin was able to organise them all. Only a few files were not recognised like the other commenter said.
I got it set up after like 40 hours but it was fun. Great thing with Linux where it will allow you to move system files with zero warning. Its stable now but every decade or so when I cross paths with Linux and I have to dive into the matrix…
I’m just trying to set up a media server >.<
Just did that a month ago. My office is already filling up with strange equipment which I’m not 100% sure where I got it from. I feel enticed to plug it into something…
(/srs happy to answer Linux/Jellyfin questions btw)
I was a dumb dumb and set my system up on alpine with podman for jellyfin and such, but my GPU is nvidia so I can’t use the GPU for transcoding since nvidia container toolkit does not work on musl. What do you use for your setup? Podman? LXC? I mean I like alpine but the lack of GPU really sucks for jellyfin and also running ollama stuff
I installed the apt package on Debian. It runs bare-metal (no container) and comes with a pre-configured systemd unit. Runs instantly, no problems except making sure it has enough disk space.
(Not using a GPU though.)
is there a way to do jellyfin without imposing strict filename requirements
My experience is that it will sort of work with whatever you dump in there, might just not be organized perfectly neatly.
If it bothers you, you can dig into strict filenames and metadata annotations and such.
my experience was it just fully ignores anything that doesnt meet the draconian file naming standard
Are you sure? I’ve been just dumping my files into a folder and Jellyfin manages fine. If it’s music, you only see the files in your “songs” tab though, not in any of the other ones. Slightly annoying since there’s no Multi-Select in the Songs tab if you want to add them to playlists, but you can definitely access them just fine
All I can say it isn’t this way for me. At the point where I made the move to jellyfin, my filenames where in all different types of formats. Jellyfin was able to organise them all. Only a few files were not recognised like the other commenter said.
The Linux elders deemed you unworthy then.
if the jellyfin devs are linux elders, god help us.
I got it set up after like 40 hours but it was fun. Great thing with Linux where it will allow you to move system files with zero warning. Its stable now but every decade or so when I cross paths with Linux and I have to dive into the matrix…
… for now.