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How big is your media library? (twun.io)
submitted 4 days 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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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Movies: 7796

TV Series: 1443 (4128 seasons, 49344 episodes)

Music (tracks): 37909

All up its pushing 45TB currently. All legal backups, obviously.

I’m trying to get all 1080p 10bit 5.1 x265 for tv and movies, but am not converting 264 -> 265 myself as it would take forever and is lossy. Sonarr and radarr will take care of it eventually anyway with the way I’ve set up my profiles.

Subtitles are usually SRTs grabbed by Bazarr, stored in a subtitles folder inside each movie folder.

Folder structure is just the standard folder per movie, and folder per tv series with sub folders per season.

Music is 320kbps mp3 where possible, and for the last year or 2 I’ve been trying to get FLAC and then convert to mp3 (automatically) and archive off the FLAC for safe keeping.

Whenever the 265 successor comes out I’ll look at upgrading to 4K if the space requirements are not crazy. With the price of storage and large bay NAS/DAS devices there’s just no way I could do 4K as it stands.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

1,028 movies

517 shows (20,702 episodes)

Shows are all 1080p or lower except a couple seasons of select shows in 4k. Movies are 4k HDR when it's available, otherwise best quality I can find.

I use Jellyfin because of the client apps and FOSS nature.

I tend to prefer HEVC/h.265 encodings for the strong trade off between player compatibility and smaller size for the quality level, but h264 and AV1 are also both in my library. I don't reencode anything except through the Jellyfin server transcoding.

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

About a gig of books, and one movie called "Lensman: Secret of the Lens"

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

80K+ hires music flac - no movies - no episodes, no shows, no podcasts, no youtube

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days 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 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days 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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