Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week agoMy big issue with kodi is that i like my library files to be human named and it does not. Dealbreaker
Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week agoMy big issue with kodi is that i like my library files to be human named and it does not. Dealbreaker
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kodi doesn’t organize your media, you use other applications for that (tinymediamanager, sonarr/radarr, etc).
The default library layout, for Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi is very human navigable, for example TV Shows are in this format:
TV Show Name |-Season 1 |-Season 2 |-|-S02E01-Episode_Name.mkv
There may be a few extra files in the directories depending on what metadata you’re storing and what you’re pulling from the Internet, but it is organized and navigable.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week ago
aight, and that’s fine for you, then that’s fine for you.
That is not how I roll
-> \fileserver
–> Sci fi series
—> Babylon 5 ----> 1.01 - 1.01 - Midnight on the Firing Line ----> … ----> 2.01 - Points of Departure
etc etc etc.
I’ve played with a translation file so Kodi’s file scrapers can understand that X is Y and react accordingly, but it’s very “my way or the highway” and I don’t bow to a machine. When it refuses to even acknowledge the existence of a file (as in just display the file name, not necessary with any metadata) unless it can jam its thumb up there, I’m out.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I understand, I used to manually organize my own files as well.
When I’m given the choice of user interfaces. Choosing between a file browser and something like Kodi, Plex or Jellyfin seems pretty easy, to me.
Even with the most organized file system, a file browser just isn’t a good UI for a media player interface. No user tracking (watched episodes, saving progress or playlists), for example.
That being said, everyone’s use case is different. There isn’t a “right” way, but in a multiuser environment across multiple types of devices with non-technical users it’s much easier and feature rich to simply use Kodi/Plex/Jellyfin.
Trying to setup direct access to the file system of a media server which could be accessible by Android/Apple phones, video game consoles, smart TVs as well as Linux and Windows clients would be more complex than just using a media interface and a standardized media directory structure.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week ago
ok. Please stop trying to convince me to change to something I do not want to.
I stated my issue with Kodi. If there’s no solution to that issue then it’s a dealbreaker, like I said.