As the title says. I have been searching for something like Kodi but more focused on an offline library manager for all the media I have. I can just navigate with the file explorer through my folders but it just looks not that pretty. Is there anything like a library manager to display my videos/music in a similar way of big online platforms? Since I have a lot of things to watch on my drive I don’t actually use much internet lately and I’m searching for something like a good looking UI, but probably I’m not very good at searching :(
Do you know a anything like that?
Plex or Jellyfin might be what you’re after.
Are you wanting to play it back on a TV? Get an AppleTV 4K and run the Infuse app. It’ll scan the network folder and build a library with its UI.
Although I’m pretty sure you can do the same with Kodi and its various themes.
If you want offline, don’t chose Plex.
I have Plex premium. When there was an internet outage in my area, Plex struggled to play even offline media.
What’s wrong with Kodi - it has a lot of skins you can use to change the appearance to look like streaming services’
…If it’s because it’s a mess to use, totally get you lol, but if you’re willing to arrange & rename the files to be scanned properly then kodi works pretty well as an offline media library.
I usually scan my media with Media Elch before I move it into Kodi/Jellyfin then I know the files and folders have the right names and all Metadata is correct.
TV shows are grabbed, named and tidied with pyMedusa.
I use Kodi on a RaspberryPi with the Jellyfin add-on so if I watch something remotely then the watched status is synced everywhere.
