Yeah, I’m not sure why you’re being an ass when I’m trying to help you but I’ll leave you to it

I’m not trying to get you to change anything. You can organize your media however you like, I’m mostly just setting up the solution:

The solution that you’re looking for is called filebot (https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7). In filebot you first define how you name your media and what directory structure you’d like to use. You can use it to handle ingesting new media. It will read common naming schemes used on files often shared online and re-name them into your defined directory and filename structure.

In addition, it comes with bindings already setup for the ‘plex’ format (that Kodi and Jellyfin also use) so you can, once you’ve defined a format to match your preferred directory structure, use filebot to hardlink your media library into a different Plex-compatible structure. Since you’re using hardlinks it won’t use any additional disk space.

Then you can keep your media how you always have it, have a powerful tool to handle managing that library (for example, you could define a new format and it can move the files between them) and also hardlink the files in a Plex folder structure which will let you have access to a media player interface.

If you manage any media at scale you should learn how to use filebot in any case, manually organizing a library can be tedious and take a while. Filebot is a lot faster once you learn it.

e: Also, if you ever run into a media collection that is already in a plex folder format, you could use filebot to re-organize it into your preferred directory format. It works on music as well and can use ID3 Tags or, if they’re missing, AcoustID audio fingerprints. TL;DR: Use filebot

I understand, I used to manually organize my own files as well.

When I’m given the choice of user interfaces. Choosing between a file browser and something like Kodi, Plex or Jellyfin seems pretty easy, to me.

Even with the most organized file system, a file browser just isn’t a good UI for a media player interface. No user tracking (watched episodes, saving progress or playlists), for example.

That being said, everyone’s use case is different. There isn’t a “right” way, but in a multiuser environment across multiple types of devices with non-technical users it’s much easier and feature rich to simply use Kodi/Plex/Jellyfin.

Trying to setup direct access to the file system of a media server which could be accessible by Android/Apple phones, video game consoles, smart TVs as well as Linux and Windows clients would be more complex than just using a media interface and a standardized media directory structure.

Kodi doesn’t organize your media, you use other applications for that (tinymediamanager, sonarr/radarr, etc).

The default library layout, for Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi is very human navigable, for example TV Shows are in this format:

TV Show Name
 |-Season 1
 |-Season 2
 |-\-S02E01-Episode_Name.mkv

There may be a few extra files in the directories depending on what metadata you’re storing and what you’re pulling from the Internet, but it is organized and navigable.

Remember the government saying that they were going to treat anti-musk vandalism as terrorism?

They’re not doing that by issuing press releases.

They’re looking for “terrorists” on social media and their subpoenas to social media sites let the site know the kind of content that the government is labeling terrorism and then the site starts banning that content.

Meanwhile they’re using that terrorism declaration to do things like charge protesters with crimes. For the ones who are on visas (like students, professors, etc) they are using those crimes as an excuse to revoke their visas and deport them.

Reddit is censoring things that are being pursued by law enforcement because their is no safe harbor laws that protect sites from things the government declares as illegal.

Reddit censorship is reflecting federal law enforcement priorities.

I would be less worried about deleted posts and more worried about who’s houses are being raided due to “terrorism” charges because they’re too vocal about healthcare reform or protested in the vicinity of property damage to Musk properties

Yeah, every product that they sell will do it.

Using something like OSMC (or buying a Vero is you don’t want to mess around with the setup) will let you control what runs on your player.

Until you do that, you’re paying some random company while also giving root access on a device in your house and letting them waste your time with ads.

All you get out of the deal is avoiding having to learn how to use a new piece of software. A Pyrrhic victory due to the fact that you have to learn to use Roku.

I’d rather spend a few hours learning how to setup Kodi. It’s free software, you don’t pay for it and it’s Free software, you control it with no strings attached.

Reddit didn’t start pushing it, it just stopped fighting it.

They lost a lot of human users and moderators over the last few years (during the API changes, for example) and their place was filled with “power mods” who run multiple large subreddits.

The moderator:user ratio has gone way down and so the people who game social media to push their messaging (nation states interested in disrupting the US) are essentially unchecked.

Now, instead of dumb bots that just copy/paste comments we have LLM-enabled ‘users’ (or even entire subreddits) that only exist to amplify these messages and manipulate the karma system to suppress opposition.

You don’t need to be a moderator if you can just use your network of hundreds of thousands of bots to downvote people out of the conversation or to boost articles to the front page.

They’re not “smart” TVs. They’re TVs with shitty android spyware boxes attached.

Stop using that garbage. Don’t connect it to a network, just use it as a display.

If you need to watch YouTube on your TV go and grab an OSMC (Kodi-based OS for media boxes) media box. You can get a pre-built one for around $100, or install it yourself on a raspberry pi.

These manufacturers depend on you being lazy and accepting their spyware. You will save yourself so much more headache in the long run if you control your own hardware and software.

Trying to navigate through the world without some minimal knowledge of computers means you’re going to get taken by every scam like what Roku is pulling.

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No, because then you can just run software cheats at kernel level which would be completely undetectable to userspace anti cheat

Yeah, it has real ‘Early 00s Smartphone Cameraphone’ vibes