Same files, different sources, default location selection

[GiGo 108]

I'm sure this has been answered before but I can't seem to find the answer, so appolgies before hand.

I have a TV Show Library with 2 folder sources, both folders will have some same files in. Emby does a great job at combining the folders and then gives me the option of which files I want to play, but you have to select the file, but it doesn't say where it's located in the drop down option. So how do I select the Default location to play?

Say I have my library as such;

A:\TV\Showname\file.mp4
B:\TV\Showname\file.mp4

How do I get it default to playing the file from drive B:\ rather than drive A:\ both files will no doubt be the same file.

TIA

[pwhodges 2012]

You can't; Emby decides for itself, choosing which it thinks will give the best quality on the playing device.

But if the files are the same, can I ask why it matters, and why you are even doing this?

Paul

[GiGo 108]

9 minutes ago, pwhodges said:

You can't; Emby decides for itself, choosing which it thinks will give the best quality on the playing device.

But if the files are the same, can I ask why it matters, and why you are even doing this?

Paul

That's what I thought was the answer.

The reason is I'm moving files from a NAS to a Cloud, I want files to remain locally on the NAS but also want everything backed up to the Cloud. My emby server runs at home but I travel away and my upload speed from my home is pretty naff, hence the cloud backup, so I can install my Emby server on another device, load it up and stream from the Cloud instead. However I want to have my cloud storage viewable and playable on my home emby server as I will add to that remotely. It's a bit of a spefic use case but I was just wondering if there was an option.

[Carlo 4561]

That makes sense to have a portable Emby Server pointed to the cloud but why does the cloud mount need to be added to the library of your main server?
I see no reason to do that if it's just a copy of what you already have on your NAS.

[GiGo 108]

9 minutes ago, cayars said:

That makes sense to have a portable Emby Server pointed to the cloud but why does the cloud mount need to be added to the library of your main server?
I see no reason to do that if it's just a copy of what you already have on your NAS.

It's mainly until I've uploaded everything really, but it would be good to be able to create a "default" location for things. 

[Carlo 4561]

To me the perfect way to do this would be using rclone running somewhere in your home environment.
You could set this up with encryption as well.

Once you've mounted the rclone drive you can use any sync utility to robocopy to xcopy to keep your cloud updated with the same info as your NAS.
You may want to check programs available on your NAS as I bet you have something available already to do this.

Your local Emby Server doesn't need to know anything about rclone or the cloud copy this way.  That will stop Emby or any users on your server from selecting the cloud version for playback which would be pointless for your home server as it already has the copy locally stored to use.

For your portable Emby Server you of course setup rclone to mount the cloud drive and use this for the source of your libraries.  The portable version doesn't need to know anything about your local NAS or it's files.

This type of configuration would give you the best of both worlds.

[pwhodges 2012]

You could install two copies of Emby at home, pointing at the two locations.

Paul

[GiGo 108]

14 hours ago, cayars said:

To me the perfect way to do this would be using rclone running somewhere in your home environment.
You could set this up with encryption as well.

Once you've mounted the rclone drive you can use any sync utility to robocopy to xcopy to keep your cloud updated with the same info as your NAS.
You may want to check programs available on your NAS as I bet you have something available already to do this.

Your local Emby Server doesn't need to know anything about rclone or the cloud copy this way.  That will stop Emby or any users on your server from selecting the cloud version for playback which would be pointless for your home server as it already has the copy locally stored to use.

For your portable Emby Server you of course setup rclone to mount the cloud drive and use this for the source of your libraries.  The portable version doesn't need to know anything about your local NAS or it's files.

This type of configuration would give you the best of both worlds.

Cheers for your advice on that! I've looked at Rclone and got very confused lol I will need to spend some time with it to get to know it a bit better. Agree that my portable version doesn't need to know about my home NAS.

13 hours ago, pwhodges said:

You could install two copies of Emby at home, pointing at the two locations.

Paul

It would be better just to add a different Library pointing to the extra location rather than have two copies installed.

[Carlo 4561]

Have a read through this short thread if you haven't already.

 

[Luke 42083]

@GiGo has this helped?

[GiGo 108]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

@GiGo has this helped?

In all honesty rclone goes above my head, but I'll try it out when I have setup a dummy setup. I really just can't get my head around the way rclone works.

[Luke 42083]

What about your original question?

[GiGo 108]

24 minutes ago, Luke said:

What about your original question?

It's not possible to select a 'default' location, unless I'm missing something? 

[GrimReaper 4749]

6 hours ago, GiGo said:

It's not possible to select a 'default' location, unless I'm missing something? 

 

On 10/30/2021 at 1:20 PM, pwhodges said:

You can't; Emby decides for itself, choosing which it thinks will give the best quality on the playing device.