So i’ve spun up a tiny alpine vm called malcolm that basically just mirrors the winshares as nic shares. Then His Lordship wanted a mini media player for the brewery. I have a pc300 that’s perfect for that, so slapping libre/kodi on it. Of course, as detailed previously, i refuse to name MY tv shows on MY file server to please the machine. I use human names. Previously i’d written a script to symlink the movies / anime / tv shows on a winbox so i could rename the symlinks and have kodi (with a netflix skin) do its thing, but of course i don’t want to do that for every farking machine and you can’t share symlinks on a winbox as they’re kernel-specific. So more scripting - linux this time - and i have a centralised Kodi share on Malcolm that is named for Kodi. The script - which i’m Working out how to run when the source directory changes - creates two copies of the dir in symlink form. One is parity (if contents of server/show matches this, ignore), the other is Recently_Added (new stuff) that i then rename with filebot and move to kodi/tv_shows. So the wxrupt runs through, checks if there’s anything new in /server/tv, if yes, then create a symlink copy in parity, and one in recent_added that i then manually name for Kodi to parse. It also hunts and kills dead symlinks on the /mnt/kodi dir :)