Moving the media files

[Marco2G 4]

Hi everyone

 

I've got a head scratcher... I reinstalled my truenas from CORE to SCALE and now for the life of me I cannot get SMB to emby working... SMB was used to configure all the libraries.

TrueNAS has IP 192.168.2.110 and emby 192.168.3.152. I did gave TrueNAS a leg in emby's subnet (192.168.3.110) but unfortunately, I cannot change the library path and adding a second source to  a library just leads to double entries for the media. Removing the old path and adding a new one leads to emby rescanning everything and all history and watched are lost.


Is there a way I can replace a number in the path IP for the libraries without emby flipping the table?

Or ideally I'd like to switch to local NFS mounts altogether. I don't trust emby to handle this properly in the future so if I could take that responsibility away from it I'd sleep better.

emby is installed on a proper Ubuntu VM, not a container.

Edited October 25, 2025 by Marco2G

[Marco2G 4]

I moved the machine to the subnet the libraries are configured for. I can now enter credentials and the window immediately closes without connectivity error. That seems good.

However I cannot play any media. I get 'No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details.'

That makes me nervous. I had intended to activate leaving metadata next to the mediafiles so I could scrap the libraries and create new ones and emby would find the metadata ready. Unfortunately I cannot find how to do this. ChatGPT is hallucinating all kinds of menues and options but so far no dice.

 

Am I just fucked (for like the fifth time between Plex, Jellyfin and Emby) again? Do I just start over from scratch and mount the media into Ubuntu so I can change whatever I want without Emby whining at me?

 

I saw a thread in 2018 about changing the paths of existing media. Am I assuming correctly that none of that has been tackled by a dev? Or is there a documented way to save all the user's work by now?

[Luke 42077]

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Removing the old path and adding a new one leads to emby rescanning everything and all history and watched are lost.

For most movies and tv shows, assuming the metadata stays the same before and after, watch state should be preserved.

[Marco2G 4]

Yeeeah, I'm gonna write down where we left off anyway. I'm gonna rebuild everything once again because "developers" media software seem incapable of even imagining one would ever need to move anything.

 

Frustrated? What, me? Unpossible!

[Luke 42077]

Please let us know how things go. Thanks.