I am starting to get to like Jellyfin. Most things I have set up in Plex are just working, but the bit I do like is that it uses the metadata from Calibre for the book sections so I can manage everything from there. No point in duplicating all that capability IN Jellyfin. I just add the two main book directories to the Jellyfin media and they work. I was looking at BookBrainz to see if that would be of help with extra information, but it's early days and many of the books *I* have are not listed, so I need to upload what I do have already. A job for another day perhaps.

I could have saved a couple of hours yesterday had I read the manual. While the music libraries are managed nicely via the MusicBrainz metadata, DVD's are a bit more of a problem especially when ripped at home. While MakeMKV quite happily rips the various elements of the DVD, it does not add the titles which need to be sorted manually. One mistake I was making was using 'Extra' rather than 'Extras', but 'Featurettes' actually seems a little better. I was struggling with the Carry On films collection, but it seems the newer film 'Carry On' is confusing things, and simply renaming the collection 'The Carry On Collection' sorted the first stage. While my main Film directory consists of just single files for each film, it looks like it will make a lot more sence to now create individual directories for each film and allow Jellyfin to store the thumbnail images with the film. While Plex defaults to storing these elsewhere, it does make sence to keep everything together.

Having spent some time tidying the Music collection in Plex, it is nice to see Jellyfin pull up the same metadata on this content. It still suffers from the irritation of foreign composer titles rather than the english version but at least I can clean that up locally now.

So the next problem is do I worry about installing version 10.10.6 on my openSUSE based server, the community package available is 10.10.4 ... I should just be able to download the newer version and switch directories once the installer has sorted the elements such as the services entries, and perhaps I should isolate the data from the program directory as well. THAT is something I tend to do with all packages I have control of. Much prefer the likes of Firebird for managing databases where the data location is well defined.

And styling the web client would be something to have a closer look at. I am used to being able to select different themes and I'm finding the default skin is a little clunky even on the high res desktop monitor, and the TV could handle twice as much content. Just another item on the TODO list.