Hi all
Sorry I have been very busy and engulfed in setting up emby on my server on my freenas box. Its not a walk in the park for shure. Many issues with permission. I have also installed emby plugins for KODI on my development machine monday and since i documented how to do it and what not to do, i installed it on the HTPC .
I started listening to music only today and so far no truncated songs. Unfortunately my maggies are experiencing some delamination of the magnet to the mylar. This is not good for listening. I found the kits at Magnepan and i found a technician to perform the repairs. They will also rebuild my thorens.
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DaveBlake I am trolling the net to find high quality cd to replace my vinyl. this will becoming a massive investment. Im lucky that most of my vinyl is in excellent condition. So I may just replace those LPs not in good condition with the 320 cds..
My learning from this experience is that
- My requirements can be met. ( they are not so far fetched)
- learned much about tagging (this is a mandatory step before committing your media to server)
- Learned about the importance of properly tag your media (this will become important when you will build smart playlists. specifically tags such as date, genre, album cover, naming conventions of songs, artists)
- Learned about permissions issues between freenas and emby and how to solve them. For those that may interested i will post the solution here below
- Learned about demarcation of functions between Freenas emby and Kodi (although in many cases overlapping, there are benefits to properly defining beforehand which solution will do what and when). This will save disk space, time and frustrations
- interact with the forums. the people in these forums are very helpful and knowledgeable
For those of you who use freenas, here is what i did to resolve the permission issue between emby and freenas. I strongly suggest that your library is properly tagged before you embark on building such a solution
I deleted the Emby jails and the emby plugin
performed a line command to clean the iocage
iocage clean -a
I deleted the iocage dataset in the freenas storage status
Rebooted freenas
then re-installed the emby plugin
in the jail before adding mount points
Go to the jail shell (I applied this is the solution in the jail shell That was provided to me by an emby architect)
service emby-server stop
pw groupmod emby -n emby -g 1000
pw usermod emby -n emby -u 1000 -g 1000
chown -R emby:emby /var/db/emby(hit tab)
service emby-server start
where the UID and GID used was that of the owners of the datasets. He suggested to create a new user and group id
The added mount points in a vanilla configuration
then selected to manage the emby plugin
added the folders .. and there were all 3 mount points media/music, media/tv shows and media/movies
after 22 hours of scanning now all is rosie in lala land
and it worked
Once again thank you all for helping me