Yeah, freedom has become vanishingly rare

That’s a big feature PR of over 2000 lines of code. It’s not a bug fix release kind of patch. 10.11 for sure

Ghost In The Shell, (the original anime movie) kinda

Look at the date

Happy to help! Lots of people get this wrong, so pass it on :-)

I agree with your comment completely, just wanted to add that the term is “Martial Law” as in, “the military is in charge now”

Jellyfin does not support federation between multiple server instances the way Plex does, unfortunately. I was working on a project to enable direct server-to-server federation but once I got into the details it became clear that it was going to be a difficult problem that would require a separate server apps combined with a plug-in for Jellyfin on each end. Even then, Jellyfin isn’t made to support e.g. servers being down, except by failing to stream a file, which doesn’t have a good way to convey to the user that the file is temporarily unavailable vs broken/bad

Jellyfin can read nfo files on disk and you can set it to never modify the files, or you could set Jellyfin to keep all of its metadata in its own DB and never put metadata in the same folder with the media files. Either way it’s entirely doable to prevent a metadata loop like you’re describing

It organizes and renames files and also syncs your watch statuses for shows. Basically it works as a complete library management tool. It also checks the file hashes for anime against AniDB, so it’s more reliable at getting the metadata right.

I realize you may already be locked-in on the name, but you should probably be aware that Pine64 have an upcoming pair of ear buds called PinePods as well. So not just another project with the same name, but another FOSS-community project, to boot.

This seems like an awesome project though. As a fellow Rustacean, it excites me to see.

Personally I have a secondary external SSD I use for my cache and transcode directories so that my transcodes aren’t throttled by being read from and written to the same disk.

Also of note is that Jellyfin does have a cron job built into it to clear the transcodes directory. You can see it under Dashboard -> Scheduled Tasks -> Clean Transcode Directory. I have mine set to run every 24 hours.