macOS alias support

[streamac 2]

I've just installed Emby and it looks like a very good replacement for StreamToMe. One thing I'd like to see is support for macOS aliases. That way I wouldn't have to always move files into the Emby library folder, I could just copy the alias in place and leave the original file where it was. Currently I get a playback error if there is an alias file in the library instead of the original, so looks like Emby isn't able to follow the alias.

I can't imagine this would be that hard to implement. I'm using Kodi as the local media player and it works with aliases.

[ebr 14910]

Hi.  For now, you could use strm files.

Strm Files

[streamac 2]

On 8/23/2021 at 3:59 PM, ebr said:

Hi.  For now, you could use strm files.

Strm Files

Thanks for the tip. I was able to create an Automator action that creates the strm files for selected files. Alias support would remove one extra step so hopefully it can me implemented at some point.

For anyone wanting to do this, create a new Automator service and add "Run Shell Script" action. Set "Pass input: as arguments" and use this snippet as the command:

for f in "$@"
do
	echo "$f" > "$(echo "$f" | sed 's/\.[^.]*$/.strm/')"
done