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Managing your Library ​

There are two ways to add content to Hound, by downloading it directly through the web portal, or by connecting an External Library. An External Library is just a folder of content that isn't directly managed by Hound, similar to Plex/Jellyfin libraries.

Downloading Content through Hound ​

This is the main way to add content to Hound.

  1. In the web portal, open a movie/show page.
  2. (FOR MOVIES) Next to the Play Button select the Dropdown and choose Select Stream. Find a stream, and select Download to Hound
  3. (FOR SHOWS) In the Seasons section, select a Season. Here you can download a whole season (EXPERIMENTAL) or download individual episodes through the Select Stream menu item. Downloading each episode manually is still recommended since providers may return incorrect results, such as the wrong episode.
  4. In the Admin Panel a list of downloads will be visible. Once the download is complete, navigate to Library on the navbar. Your content should appear here.

Connecting an External Library ​

If you have an existing library, or would like to upload your own content, you can connect an external library to Hound. Hound uses TMDB as its sole metadata provider, so your content will have to correspond to movies and episodes orderings in TMDB.

Hound follows a strict naming convention for files and folders. You HAVE to follow this structure or matching may fail.

Movies
 |-- Movie Name (Year)
 |   |-- Movie Name (Year).ext

TV Shows
 |-- Show Name (Year)
 |   |-- Season 01
 |   |   |-- Show Name - S01E01 - Episode Name.ext
 |   |   |-- Show Name - S01E02 - Episode Name.ext
 |   |-- Season 02
 |   |   |-- Show Name - S02E01 - Episode Name.ext
 |   |   |-- Show Name - S02E02 - Episode Name.ext

If a movie/show is matching incorrectly, you can add [tmdbid-1234] with the desired show's ID to the folder name to force a match.

Once you have prepared the library, open your docker-compose.yml and add or uncomment the following lines:

hound-server:
  ...
  volumes:
    - /path/to/movies:/app/External Library/Movies
    - /path/to/shows:/app/External Library/TV Shows

Note that Hound does not currently support adding a movie/show that is not in TMDB. Consider contributing to TMDB to add missing content first. Adding custom content planned feature.