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How big is your media library? (twun.io)

submitted 1 year ago by SpookyMulder@twun.io to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Background: I've been writing a new media server like Jellyfin or Plex, and I'm thinking about releasing it as an OSS project. It's working really well for me already, so I've started polishing up the install process, writing getting started docs, stuff like that.

I'm interested in how other folks have set up their media libraries. Especially the technical details around how files are encoded and organized.

My media library currently has about 1,100 movies and just shy of 200 TV shows. I've encoded everything as high quality AV1 video with Opus audio, in a WebM container. Subtitles and chapters are in a separate WebVTT file alongside the video. The whole thing is currently about 9TB. With few exceptions, I sourced everything directly from Blu-ray or DVD using MakeMKV. It's organized pretty close to how Jellyfin wants it.

What about you?

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[–] fountainpenink@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mine is sitting around 10TB, mostly podcasts and a few videos like graduations.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Like 7

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i just got my music server going recently, let me see that i had like 19 thousand songs!

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you use for your music server if I might ask?

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

i settled on gonic via docker, for now, with jukebox mode controlled from dsub2000, as the device I'm using as the server is an old autonomic mms2a running debian. (not enough horsepower to run a full DE so it needs to be remotely controllable)

i just about drove myself crazy trying every single version of any subsonic related server and client, jellyfin (still running) ampache, mopidy with plugins, addons for kodi, various MPD iterations and control points, including trying to drive it from home assistant.

i am not sure if I'm completely happy with my setup, but with vpn, i can listen on the phone anywhere, make playlists that are immediately visible on the machine that can play to my speakers in the house (driven off of a matrixing amplifier)

i am giving my brain a rest before i try to look into snapcast

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