For reasons that aren’t important, I have two separate servers (in different geographic locations), and from what I can see, the only way to switch from one to the other is through the sidebar by selecting the server. This is quite inconvenient.

Until now, I was using Plex, and there, once you register both servers in the client you’re using, it displays all the libraries from both servers. The user doesn’t even need to know where each thing is located, as they are combined seamlessly, almost as if they were separate libraries on the same server. I hope that makes sense.

Is it possible to do something similar in Jellyfin? Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Jellyfin does not support federation between multiple server instances the way Plex does, unfortunately. I was working on a project to enable direct server-to-server federation but once I got into the details it became clear that it was going to be a difficult problem that would require a separate server apps combined with a plug-in for Jellyfin on each end. Even then, Jellyfin isn't made to support e.g. servers being down, except by failing to stream a file, which doesn't have a good way to convey to the user that the file is temporarily unavailable vs broken/bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Wow, I have no idea about programming, otherwise I’d try to help you. In any case, if you manage to figure it out, you’ll have my eternal gratitude.

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