Videos that belong to multiple playlists in a collection

[brianroberg]

I'm using a TV Show Collection to download a channel and present each of its playlists in Jellyfin as a season. This is working great! The playlists-as-seasons under one show works very well as a concept. But I'm wondering if it's possible to tweak what happens in the case of a video that appears in more than one playlist.

Here's my use case: my wife uses a fitness channel that has 20+ playlists. The playlists serve as categories of workout types, but the categories are far from mutually exclusive—many videos appear in more than one list. What I want is for a video that appears in more than one playlist on YouTube to be accessible in all those playlists in Jellyfin, thus preserving the organization scheme the YouTuber devised for the channel. The behavior I'm actually getting—in keeping with what's described in the documentation—is that a video appears in only one playlist.

Of course, I don't want to toss out the maintain_download_archive features altogether; I don't want to download and store redundant copies of all those videos. It seems like an ideal solution would be to create symlinks or hard links to the first copy of a video when it appears in additional playlists. Is this possible? Or is there perhaps a different way to accomplish the same result?

I really appreciate any help anyone can offer. I have almost everything working well, but this last piece would be big for the Spouse Approval Factor!

[jmbannon]

Hey @brianroberg , follow this issue for a solution to this problem (hardlink/symlink support for dupe videos is a requirement for this): #502

It's something I've thought about and want to implement at some point. Glad you are enjoying ytdl-sub!

[brianroberg]

OK, thank you! I came across that issue while I was setting up the collection, but I hadn't discerned the connection to hardlinks/symlinks.

Thanks for all the work you're doing on this project!