diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md index b7ecc18..c88aaf9 100644 --- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md +++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- type: reference title: Media Relayout -description: "Census, plan and apply the movie, TV, music and audiobook libraries into their media servers' format: gates, evidence chain, refusals, rollback." +description: "Census, plan and apply the movie, TV, music and audiobook libraries: the gates, the refusals, the rollback." tags: [dankserver, media-server, jellyfin, plex, procedure] timestamp: 2026-10-30T00:00:00Z --- @@ -306,17 +306,14 @@ provider row names, which is a tagging job and not a renaming job. `/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks` is the one library here that [[Jellyfin]] does not read at all — its music scanner has no audiobook concept — while [[Plex]] indexes all -of it as Artist → Album → Track, where the album is the BOOK, that book's single -artist is the NARRATOR, and both were matched out of the files' own tags. -`scripts/media-audiobooks.py` re-files the tree so the property both servers' -book scanners assume is true — +of it as Artist → Album → Track: the album is the BOOK, that book's single artist +is the NARRATOR, both matched out of the files' own tags. Today one book is split +across `… [Part 1]`, `… [Part 2]` folders three or four deep inside a collection +pack, so a scan serves three quarters of a novel; `scripts/media-audiobooks.py` +re-files the tree so the property both servers' book scanners assume is true — Audiobooks// ()/ -Today it is not: the top level is a mix of author-named shelves and collection -packs, and a pack's book is split across `… [Part 1]`, `… [Part 2]` folders three -or four deep, so a scan shows three quarters of a novel. - ```bash # 1. The authority: Plex's chapter rows for this root (the DB opens read-only). python3 scripts/media-census.py audiobooks --root /mnt/entropy/Audiobooks \ @@ -350,14 +347,13 @@ the rows actually hold: +- **The shelf is the narrator, not the author.** Every book has exactly one artist row and it is the narrator; the author survives only inside some album titles (`Kryptos by Graham McNeill`) and in no column Plex stores, so deriving it would - mean parsing titles where a ripper happened to write one and inventing it - everywhere else. One rule that always resolves beats a shelf that is half author - and half narrator, and the author stays visible in the folder name Plex shows. + mean parsing titles where a ripper wrote one and inventing it everywhere else. + The author stays visible in the folder name Plex itself shows. -What it refuses, same list as the music arm with one addition: a video container, -audio no chapter row names, and a loose file in a folder holding two books all -park under `_unsorted` with the path they have today — and so does a chapter whose -row has **no book or no narrator**, because inventing a shelf is filing it wrong. +What it refuses, the music arm's list with one addition: a video container, audio +no chapter row names, and a loose file in a folder holding two books all park under +`_unsorted` with the path they have today — and so does a chapter whose row has +**no book or no narrator**, because inventing a shelf is filing it wrong. ## Laws diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md index 6b8cd36..fda0026 100644 --- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md +++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is a locator: one row, one clause, no numbers. | [[Jellyfin]] | Jellyfin on Dankserver: quadlet unit, overlay metadata view, provider keys, ports, access, transcode status. | | [[mariadb]] | The MariaDB backend for RomM: quadlet unit, network alias, env-file secret handling, and the backup path. | | [[Media Metadata View]] | The SSD-backed overlay the two media servers read and write: shape, guards, commands, laws, rollback. | -| [[Media Relayout]] | Census, plan and apply the movie and TV libraries into Jellyfin format: gates, evidence chain, refusals, rollback. | +| [[Media Relayout]] | Census, plan and apply the movie, TV, music and audiobook libraries: the gates, the refusals, the rollback. | | [[Plex]] | Plex Media Server is a **containerized media server on Dankserver**: a podman | | [[redis]] | The Redis cache and task queue for RomM: quadlet unit, network alias topology, and the backup path. | | [[RomM]] | RomM (ROM Manager) is a self-hosted ROM library manager and player. |