Media Directory not showing up in docker

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That helps a lot. While not entirely clear, I have a better idea

  1. You have a QNAP and a Synology :slight_smile: (so do I)
  2. The Syno has two shared folders: TV and Music
  3. The QNAP has ONE shared folder (Multimedia) with two subfolders.

Therefore, I think you have:
QNAP → Multimedia/TV and Multimedia/Movies
Syno → TV and Music

The common problems are:

  1. Using “Multimedia” from QNAP does not work correctly with Plex.
    It’s a software-created virual shared folder. Multimedia is intended to be used only with QNAP applications
  2. The moment you install QNAP’s “Codex Pack”, EVERYTHING goes Wonky!

Here is some info we’ve posted in the forum to make life easier.

Q14: Where should I put my medias?

It’s not important, as long as you DO NOT use the default shares from QNAP, like “Multimedia” etc, since they also are used with some QNAP bundled applications, that creates files and directories, that confuse the Plex scanners. If you however decide to go with that directory, we urge you to look for hidden directories and files in it, and add an exclusion for those by using PlexIgnore functionallity.
And to create a shared folder just for Plex Medias, follow this guide and remember to grant full rights to your self, so you can add new items there.

On QNAP, make regular shared folders, putting your media files there, just like you do on Synology and everything will work (enable NFS for each shared folder)

How do I recommend proceeding?

Presuming you have a Syno and QNAP (BIG IF here — hehe)

  1. Create a Movies shared folder on QNAP
  2. Move all the movies to the new Movies shared folder
  3. Create a TV shared folder
  4. Move all the tv series to the new TV shared folder.

(( If you’re like me when I started, my disks were small. I ended up with ‘movies’ and ‘movies2’. I also ended up with ‘tv’, ‘tv2’, ‘tv3’, and ‘tv4’. This is OK ))

With everything separated cleanly on the NAS boxes, we can get to work.

I recommend:

/syno/music
/syno/tv
/qnap/movies
/qnap/tv

You set the permissions for each.
Now you write the /etc/fstab entries to mount them individually.

With the media now cleanly on the host (we can browse everything from Linux),
we create the container.

This is where it gets simple:

\ # Add the volume which gets everything from the qnap and syno
-v /qnap:/qnap \
-v /syno:/syno \

Inside the container, we can drill down into each
We only needed two passthroughs to make it work.

What do you think?
Did I understand correctly?