Wow; thank you, @Trollheart! That's very generous of you!
I'm keen to take you up on your kind offer. I just need to factor in that, as curious as it sounds, watching shows and films is taxing on my mind and I can only handle televisual works in very minute doses. So don't go to any trouble simply for my account. I would be curious to peruse a text index of your folder structure if you have such a thing handy?
That taxing element is precisely what has kept me from moving full-speed ahead with Jellyfin as a metadata-rich graphical navigator for my video library. (I posted briefly about that project in the Your Day thread here.) With over 7,000 films, and a significant portion of it indie content not indexed in any major web database, the project of renaming the folder and file structure so that Jellyfin can correctly interpret the trailers, movie posters, cast, crew, related viewing, etc would be arduous to say the least.
The admin of the Jellyfin forum suggested I try a robust Java app like TinyMediaManager to automate chunks of the project. I installed it, but am wary of mistakenly mis-tagging massive sectors of the library so I've held off. And as I said, as I so seldom watch anything at all, it would be a whole lot of work without much of a practical yield.
More savvy media archivists use utilities like Sonarr, a software that can monitor and download your favorite shows from RSS feeds to batch automate scraping the web for the latest episodes of all your favorite shows and tag them correctly for you. But that would have been helpful a decade ago before I constructed this massive library.
To return to the topic at hand, music is a different media animal for me. I listen to ambient music more than 12 hours every day (while awake and asleep), which is what makes me consider this PMP project, even if only for the nostalgic element circa 2008.
Maybe others will have thoughts to share about the potential investment. Thanks, everyone!
I'm keen to take you up on your kind offer. I just need to factor in that, as curious as it sounds, watching shows and films is taxing on my mind and I can only handle televisual works in very minute doses. So don't go to any trouble simply for my account. I would be curious to peruse a text index of your folder structure if you have such a thing handy?
That taxing element is precisely what has kept me from moving full-speed ahead with Jellyfin as a metadata-rich graphical navigator for my video library. (I posted briefly about that project in the Your Day thread here.) With over 7,000 films, and a significant portion of it indie content not indexed in any major web database, the project of renaming the folder and file structure so that Jellyfin can correctly interpret the trailers, movie posters, cast, crew, related viewing, etc would be arduous to say the least.
The admin of the Jellyfin forum suggested I try a robust Java app like TinyMediaManager to automate chunks of the project. I installed it, but am wary of mistakenly mis-tagging massive sectors of the library so I've held off. And as I said, as I so seldom watch anything at all, it would be a whole lot of work without much of a practical yield.
More savvy media archivists use utilities like Sonarr, a software that can monitor and download your favorite shows from RSS feeds to batch automate scraping the web for the latest episodes of all your favorite shows and tag them correctly for you. But that would have been helpful a decade ago before I constructed this massive library.
To return to the topic at hand, music is a different media animal for me. I listen to ambient music more than 12 hours every day (while awake and asleep), which is what makes me consider this PMP project, even if only for the nostalgic element circa 2008.
Maybe others will have thoughts to share about the potential investment. Thanks, everyone!
Quote from: Marie Monday on Today at 09:41 AMThis is just unnecessary, anyone can ask to give their info to someone else if they want to be reachable in times of emergency, in practice most of us already have forum people in our phone or discord contacts. There is no reason why it has the be one designated person or why it should be organised centrally
This and not only this but to have one person have all that contact information and then we just trust they won't one day decide to have a meltdown and use that information for ill intentions just doesn't sit right with me. I just don't see the point. People also get bored of forums and if said person also decides they don't want to be part of a forum anymore, they would still have access to that information which even more so lends itself to misusing that information.
keyword from tiktok! (its also a good song too)
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This is just unnecessary, anyone can ask to give their info to someone else if they want to be reachable in times of emergency, in practice most of us already have forum people in our phone or discord contacts. There is no reason why it has the be one designated person or why it should be organised centrally