2018-07-28, 03:59
I've recently set up a Raspberry Pi with Kodi to be a DNLA media server. I access it through various devices, PS4 and Xbox mainly. I much prefer to just access my media by using the file system as on my hard drive. It's very well organised and when Kodi imports it, it all gets messed up due to naming conventions. However it is perfectly navigatable through the file structure of the hard drive. So I prefer to just use that because it works and to change all the file names would take time I don't have.
This works great for my movies and TV show folders. I set them up under video and those libraries come up on the devices I use to access the media. For Music I cannot get this to work. I added my music folder from my hard drive to the music library, but I cannot access that folder from other devices. Is there a way to share this? I can see all the content through the Kodi sub menus, but as explained above content is all messed up due to naming. Especially for compilations and bootlegs of live shows.
Secondly , is there a way to not share all the sub menus such as top 100, genre ect. I don't want to use those as for my purpose it's very cluttered and messy. From the devices I want to access the kodi server with, all I want to see is the shared folders from my hard drive . One for music, one for movies and one for TV shows. Not the kodi library versions. Just the folders as on my hard drive. Is this possible?
This works great for my movies and TV show folders. I set them up under video and those libraries come up on the devices I use to access the media. For Music I cannot get this to work. I added my music folder from my hard drive to the music library, but I cannot access that folder from other devices. Is there a way to share this? I can see all the content through the Kodi sub menus, but as explained above content is all messed up due to naming. Especially for compilations and bootlegs of live shows.
Secondly , is there a way to not share all the sub menus such as top 100, genre ect. I don't want to use those as for my purpose it's very cluttered and messy. From the devices I want to access the kodi server with, all I want to see is the shared folders from my hard drive . One for music, one for movies and one for TV shows. Not the kodi library versions. Just the folders as on my hard drive. Is this possible?