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How big is your media library? (twun.io)

submitted 3 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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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes I hear about other people's storage setups and I think, "that is overkill, no one really needs that." According to this thread, I am quite mistaken about that. 😳

I have 2,057 songs, taking up a measly 51 GB, on a Funkwhale server. No movies or TV shows.

That should get a little larger soon. I have about 100 vinyl records that I want to make digital rips of.

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have single movies that are larger than your entire song library.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 4 points 2 days ago

I'm kind of surprised that it's only 51 GB. They're all FLAC files ripped from CDs -- I was expecting like 300 GB at least.

So apparently this 1TB SSD is going to last me a while. :P

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Lawrence of Arabia 4K remux is so fucking crispy.