GotanMusic 0 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Hi My installation is Emby (4.8.3.0) on Truenas Core (13.0-U6.1). I recently started adding collections by following the help links and selecting each of the tracks/Albums and then either creating a new collection or adding to an existing one. When I checked on the server in the collections folders it looks like it has duplicated all the files. I was expecting it just to contain pointers to each of the files - not duplicates. Is this right? What should I be doing here? Given these are FLAC files and 11k of albums I might need to re-think my strategy here - I won't have the space to create masses of duplicates. In fact I now see that 250GB of FLAC files on my Windows PC take up 1TB of space on the server - spread across Album artists, Genres, Albums, Songs. Each directory seems to contain another copy of the music file. 2GB are in Collections (only 3 collections so far across c15 Albums) I want to check that this is set up correctly and I haven't missed something here. Thank you Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Quote When I checked on the server in the collections folders it looks like it has duplicated all the files Hi there, what exactly do you mean by duplicated? Can you please show an example of this? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotanMusic 0 Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 Hi Luke So, this is my music library backup stored on a local PC - taking up c198GB with 10,484 music files. This second image is my (same) Music Library on Emby stored on my Truenas server. 198GB in Albums + 198GB in Songs + 150GB in Folders + 340GB in Artists etc etc - totaling 1.3TB of music... Is this what you would expect? Maybe the file system is just not being read right from the windows view - the below is the Truenas Dashboard showing storage... on this view the Music Library is showing 197GB - the same as on the backup library PC.... ?? I'm confused. Thanks Chris Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Hi, your second screenshot, is that from Emby DLNA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotanMusic 0 Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 Hi Luke - No, both the first 2 screenshots are from a windows based file viewer via a mapped drive link. Do you think this is just a spurious measurement given the Truenas dashboard correctly shows the music library as 197GB - the same size as the backup? Can you confirm that if I continue to create collections and playlists, they won't take up the same amount of space again as the original files? (I don't want to spend loads of time doing this only to find it eats up all my space) Thanks Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 9 hours ago, GotanMusic said: Can you confirm that if I continue to create collections and playlists, they won't take up the same amount of space again as the original files? Collections and Playlists are exactly that a list of items. Only space they will take up is the size of the nfo/m3u files and some images for display. Playlists found in \programdata\data\playlists or userplaylist and Collections found in \programdata\metadata\collections (path varies per platform) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Those virtual folders exactly match what Emby dlna presents so that’s what I think it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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