Add your films, TV, music, photos and books

Choose your media folders

1. 1Open the web app (http://<server>:8097) and sign in as an admin.
2. 2Click ⚙ Settings → Server.
3. 3In Media folders, enter one folder per line, for example D:\Films, D:\TV and D:\Music — or simply one folder that holds them all.
4. 4Click Save. The library is scanned straight away; large libraries take a few minutes the first time.
5. 5Use Rescan library any time you add files and don't want to wait (Silux Media also checks for new files every 15 minutes).

Name films and episodes

• Films: “Title (Year).mkv” — e.g. Arrival (2016).mkv
• TV: “Show Name S01E02.mkv”, ideally in Show Name/Season 01/ folders
• Music: Artist/Album/01 - Song.flac — tags in the files are used first
• Photos: any folder of .jpg, .png, .heic and similar
• Books: .epub, .pdf, .cbz, .cbr, .mobi and .azw3

Subtitles, posters and covers

• Subtitles next to the film with the same name and a language code: Film (2020).en.srt, Film (2020).fr.forced.ass
• Embedded subtitle and audio tracks in MKV/MP4 are found automatically
• Posters: poster.jpg or Film (2020).jpg next to the film; folder.jpg or cover.jpg for albums and shows
• No artwork? Silux Media uses a frame from the film, the album's embedded cover, a book's own cover or a sound-wave picture

Every common format plays

MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, WebM, TS/M2TS, MPG/VOB, WMV, FLV, 3GP, OGV, DV and more — including ProRes, VC-1, DTS and FLAC inside them. Files the screen can't play directly are converted on the fly, at a quality that suits the connection.