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Hi, I just discovered MediaElch and it looks interesting and useful, but I am not understanding its intended relation with Kodi and thought I'd ask here.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running LibreElec and Kodi; a couple of hard drives are connected to it and they contain my libraries (Movies, TV Shows, Music).

Then I have a Linux laptop with MediaElch installed and no media content. I do have those drives mounted on the laptop as network shares, but I'm assuming this is not the standard use case for MediaElch.

My MediaElch can talk to my Kodi, e.g. I can trigger a library clean, but my MediaElch library is empty and I don't understand how to populate it. If I added my network shares, wouldn't that just create a parallel library in ME that's unrelated to the one in Kodi? And what if people don't have network shares mounted?
I expected to import the Kodi library and be able to enrich it through file renaming and nfo files, am I completely mistaken? Are the actual library contents supposed to reside on the same computer MediaElch is running on and then exposed to Kodi as network shares? I found no mention of any of this in the guide but you never know. I just can't imagine how MediaElch and Kodi can interact without using network shares one direction or the other - any help would be very appreciated!