I’m looking into redoing my media server and I would like recommendations for a front end. My hope is to find one where I can have a node at my parents and my girlfriend’s parents houses that have some but not all of the media. I want them to not have to care about the servers and just be able to pick something and if it is on the local server it will pick that one. If anyone has any recommendations I would love to hear them.
The networks will be connected by VPN tunnels and I have my methods of moving the media between the servers sorted out. I’m currently using plex but I dont like that I cant see whats on all available servers at once, not to mention FOSS would be ideal.
you could have one plex master server accessing multiple storage servers over SMB/NFS without much hassle, that allows combined libraries and more or less seamless access if the network and connection between servers is up to scratch as it would require reasonably high bandwidth, but multiple separate servers is a bit of a pain as you cant easily combine them and you would have to have split libraries AFAIK.
Unfortunately my goal with having it distributed is to lower bandwidth usage as have a low upload bandwidth.