Hi All,
For my first attempt at blatantly skimming you all for your hard-earned knowledge, I am a little stuck with the rather pedestrian subject of Video Station. Specifically, the export and import process for when I move stuff from my aging DS414 to my shiny new Synology that should be arriving shortly.
Migration Assistant is not an option for the DS414, and honestly in most cases I can move things over manually, so not a problem. (New Synology, new disks, network connection.)
My concern (if that is not too strong a word) is with Video Station. On my DS414 there is obviously a certain percentage of media whose metadata was 'manually' corrected. Obviously I would like to avoid repeating this time consuming exercise. I have (surprisingly) found little material on transferring the Video Station database, although:
Synology forum 1 is certainly pertinent. Telos pointed out the simple Export function that apparently worked with 'much' of the metadata.
Synology forum 2 suggests attacking the database itself, although the thread is quite old now so I'm not so keen.
In Import Metadata from SynoForum (from the aforementioned Telos?) where the Export function is again proposed,
So... after seemingly answering my own question, I tried the Export function and was surprised/shocked when it started creating .vsmeta files in every single folder in my library. (Although, to be fair, that is exactly what Telos had stated, although I managed to filter that part out.)
I guess I am simply looking for reassurance, because in my Happy Place, I was always keen to minimise the number of entries I manipulated manually, so that as far as possible the auto tagging tool could do its job (and would therefore update the info if it was subsequently refined). Surely, if every single film and episode has a .vsmeta attached, then this can no longer happen... Is this correct? (If it is correct, then this appears to be a real shame.)
Or am I barking up the wrong tree and worrying about nothing?
One final question... In VS and Plex, Telos mentions the Plex roots of Video Station. Is the naming convention for Plex identical to that of Video Station? (Soon having a Plex capable NAS, it is a likely step for me, and I know it is possible to use the same media folder structure for both. I sincerely hope the answer is "Yes".) And Jellyfin, does that use the same naming structure?
Any light you are able to shine would be appreciated, thank you!
For my first attempt at blatantly skimming you all for your hard-earned knowledge, I am a little stuck with the rather pedestrian subject of Video Station. Specifically, the export and import process for when I move stuff from my aging DS414 to my shiny new Synology that should be arriving shortly.
Migration Assistant is not an option for the DS414, and honestly in most cases I can move things over manually, so not a problem. (New Synology, new disks, network connection.)
My concern (if that is not too strong a word) is with Video Station. On my DS414 there is obviously a certain percentage of media whose metadata was 'manually' corrected. Obviously I would like to avoid repeating this time consuming exercise. I have (surprisingly) found little material on transferring the Video Station database, although:
Synology forum 1 is certainly pertinent. Telos pointed out the simple Export function that apparently worked with 'much' of the metadata.
Synology forum 2 suggests attacking the database itself, although the thread is quite old now so I'm not so keen.
In Import Metadata from SynoForum (from the aforementioned Telos?) where the Export function is again proposed,
So... after seemingly answering my own question, I tried the Export function and was surprised/shocked when it started creating .vsmeta files in every single folder in my library. (Although, to be fair, that is exactly what Telos had stated, although I managed to filter that part out.)
I guess I am simply looking for reassurance, because in my Happy Place, I was always keen to minimise the number of entries I manipulated manually, so that as far as possible the auto tagging tool could do its job (and would therefore update the info if it was subsequently refined). Surely, if every single film and episode has a .vsmeta attached, then this can no longer happen... Is this correct? (If it is correct, then this appears to be a real shame.)
Or am I barking up the wrong tree and worrying about nothing?
One final question... In VS and Plex, Telos mentions the Plex roots of Video Station. Is the naming convention for Plex identical to that of Video Station? (Soon having a Plex capable NAS, it is a likely step for me, and I know it is possible to use the same media folder structure for both. I sincerely hope the answer is "Yes".) And Jellyfin, does that use the same naming structure?
Any light you are able to shine would be appreciated, thank you!