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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[-] D06M4@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

If by this you mean you want to only rely on your smartphone then the local storage you want is just that. Get a good SSD that you can connect to your phone and carry it around. Then share your phone's screen to a TV over WiFi or copy the file to your phone's internal storage and plug it with an USB to HDMI cable if that's an option for you. A good app on Android for file browsing is MiXplorer.

I usually only think about running stuff like Jellyfin when I'm already using my PC, so turning it on or off is never an issue and I'll never need an external server for this purpose.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I was talking about my PC, but I do not want to always search the film in my Hard drive (and I really liked the interface from jellyfin, so I wanted something similar)

[-] D06M4@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

What OS do you use?

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Im using OpenSuse, but after someone made me aware, that I can in fact run jellyfin on my local machine and just run the server when needed, already installed jellyfin (since im planning on hosting it on my soon to be server, so might as well get some practice using it.