Hello!
New CoreElec user and first post here, so let me take a moment to congratulate the team for an awesome project! It has allowed me to transforme a crappy old android TV box into a superb media player, nice work you all !
My main use for kodi is music and all my content is on a “multimedia” server on my home network. I have setup my library using NFS mounts with no problems.
I also have a DLNA server in my home network and it is configured to present a different media tree than the “raw” exported directories, using symlinks. The DLNA server has a parameter set to allow its clients to follow symlinks.
I have configured the DLNA server as well in Kodi and it works as expected but the album artwork is low resolution - I believe it is a constraint of the DLNA standard. Accessing music through the NFS mounts displays full resolution artwork so I’d rather use that.
The problem is I’d like to have the same flexibility as DLNA to present a specific media tree built using symlinks. I have mounted the media tree used by the DLNA server through NFS and while I see the titles they won’t play - the player exits immediately as if the song had zero length, so I concluded it doesn’t follow the symlink.
Is there a way to configure kodi to follow symlinks? A search of this forum didn’t yield relevant results, I guess I’m the only one who needs this… Note that I’m a fairly advanced user and can manage the player through SSH.
I hope my post makes sense, if not don’t hesitate to ask for more details. Thanks in advance for any insights.
Joris
EDIT
After some more experimentation it seems that instead of mounting the NFS shares directly in /storage/music I could mount them elsewhere, say /mnt/something then run a version of the script I use to make the symlinks on the command line to create links in /storage/music that refer to files in the NFS mount.
However I would prefer to just have the one script on the multimedia server machine so my question still applies.