Searching for a 'library manager' that looks awesome.

As the title says. I have been searching for something like Kodi but more focused on an offline library manager for all the media I have. I can just navigate with the file explorer through my folders but it just looks not that pretty. Is there anything like a library manager to display my videos/music in a similar way of big online platforms? Since I have a lot of things to watch on my drive I don't actually use much internet lately and I'm searching for something like a good looking UI, but probably I'm not very good at searching :(

Do you know a anything like that?

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Jellyfin all the way. Its just amazing, Im surprised most comments are not like mine

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- Thanks this was exactly what I needed
  
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Plex or Jellyfin might be what you're after.

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Are you wanting to play it back on a TV? Get an AppleTV 4K and run the Infuse app. It’ll scan the network folder and build a library with its UI.

Although I’m pretty sure you can do the same with Kodi and its various themes.

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If you want offline, don't chose Plex.

I have Plex premium. When there was an internet outage in my area, Plex struggled to play even offline media.

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- You just need to set it up accordingly.
  
  https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-for-local-network-access/
  
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  *If you want to have exactly one user (the admin user) always.
  
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What's wrong with Kodi - it has a lot of skins you can use to change the appearance to look like streaming services'

...If it's because it's a mess to use, totally get you lol, but if you're willing to arrange & rename the files to be scanned properly then kodi works pretty well as an offline media library.

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- I usually scan my media with Media Elch before I move it into Kodi/Jellyfin then I know the files and folders have the right names and all Metadata is correct.
  
  TV shows are grabbed, named and tidied with pyMedusa.
  
  I use Kodi on a RaspberryPi with the Jellyfin add-on so if I watch something remotely then the watched status is synced everywhere.
  
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Kodi for local stuff, jellyfin for if you want to access it remotely.

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For Music, I've started using Navidrome on my server and Feishin on my desktop (a SubSonic server and client respectively). The music has all been tagged using Beets so there's a nice display.

For Video, I second the AppleTV 4K with Infuse app recommendation. Just accesses my library using NFS, and gets all the metadata from wherever to show an organised library, with a player that can handle anything.

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