As the title says. I have been searching for something like Kodi but more focused on an offline library manager for all the media I have. I can just navigate with the file explorer through my folders but it just looks not that pretty. Is there anything like a library manager to display my videos/music in a similar way of big online platforms? Since I have a lot of things to watch on my drive I don’t actually use much internet lately and I’m searching for something like a good looking UI, but probably I’m not very good at searching :(
Do you know a anything like that?
Jellyfin all the way. Its just amazing, Im surprised most comments are not like mine
Thanks this was exactly what I needed
Plex or Jellyfin might be what you’re after.
Are you wanting to play it back on a TV? Get an AppleTV 4K and run the Infuse app. It’ll scan the network folder and build a library with its UI.
Although I’m pretty sure you can do the same with Kodi and its various themes.
If you want offline, don’t chose Plex.
I have Plex premium. When there was an internet outage in my area, Plex struggled to play even offline media.
You just need to set it up accordingly.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-for-local-network-access/
*If you want to have exactly one user (the admin user) always.
I limit it to my devices, better than not being able to access anything during an outage.
What’s wrong with Kodi - it has a lot of skins you can use to change the appearance to look like streaming services’
…If it’s because it’s a mess to use, totally get you lol, but if you’re willing to arrange & rename the files to be scanned properly then kodi works pretty well as an offline media library.
I usually scan my media with Media Elch before I move it into Kodi/Jellyfin then I know the files and folders have the right names and all Metadata is correct.
TV shows are grabbed, named and tidied with pyMedusa.
I use Kodi on a RaspberryPi with the Jellyfin add-on so if I watch something remotely then the watched status is synced everywhere.
Kodi for local stuff, jellyfin for if you want to access it remotely.
For Music, I’ve started using Navidrome on my server and Feishin on my desktop (a SubSonic server and client respectively). The music has all been tagged using Beets so there’s a nice display.
For Video, I second the AppleTV 4K with Infuse app recommendation. Just accesses my library using NFS, and gets all the metadata from wherever to show an organised library, with a player that can handle anything.
