How to organize your local media library? (feddit.org)

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I am searching dor some form of software that I can use to watch all the different media I have stored locally, similar to Jellyfin. However the Problem is, that I do not have a dedicated media server (yet), so I am searching for something that I can use like Jellyfin, but that just runs locally. Everything that I have found is aimed at media servers. Do you have any suggestions?

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[-] Bienenvolk@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

On which device?

Kind of a cheap answer but if we're talking Linux/Windows and you intend to host Jellyfin in the future anyway, you could just spin it up on your machine. That way you can already familiarise with it.

Otherwise, I'd recommend to just maintain a sane file structure (which you'd later need for Jellyfin anyway, and probably for sanity also) and then watch/hear it with VLC. I believe VLC even supports some form of library management, but I have not used it, yet. It definetly supports queues.