Synology Setting Up Your Media Library Share
The media library is a key component of your Emby Server setup, the following is a step-by-step guide for a reference setup.
However you decide to setup your library, making sure Emby Server has read/write access to it, is critical.
NOTE: The name of the NAS in this example is JFK, substitute with the name of your system accordingly.
Step 1 : Navigate to Control Panel -> Shared Folder. (shared folders are assumed, as you'll need a way to upload your media)
Step 2 : Set the Name, Description and choose a Location. (if you have more than one volume available)
Step 3 : Grant the Emby Server user Read/Write access, along with any other users you wish to have access to upload media.
Step 4 : Navigate to the share from your desktop machine and create sub-directories for Movies, TV, etc. (in this case we're doing it from a Windows based machine)
Step 5 : Upload your media to the shared folder.
Step 6 : In the Emby server manager navigate to Library -> Add Media Library to configure the media sources. (example below shows adding movies)
Step 7 : Once complete, the media library will be added and you will see Emby make an initial scan.
Step 8 : Configure path substitution to enable clients to direct play media, pay attention to the trailing slashes!
Step 9 : You should now be able to browse your media in Metadata Manager, you can also confirm that path substitution is working as expected.
Step 10 : The end result, your media displayed in the client application and ready to go. (in this case the Web UI, with CoverArt applied)
