How to view shortcut to video files

Is there a way to be able to create a shortcut of some of my video files in another folder on my desktop, but serviio be able to play the shortcut files. This way I do not have to copy the files in multiple locations?
Here is basically what I am trying to achieve. I have some video files in a folder. I want to organize them better based on various criteria (year, good/bad, etc). Maybe there is a way to tag them? If yes, how? and how will serviio recognize the tags?
Does this request go in new feature request or does this already exist?

What makes you think this doesn't work? Have you tried it?

I use unix and have no problem with serviio accessing a folder of symbolic links pointing elsewhere. I guess you're on windows, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work the same there.

[zip]

Windows shortcuts don't work AFAIK, there is an open ticket

Thanks for the replies....I am glad that this is already been looked into.

Zip, is there an ETA for that open ticket?

I cannot say it enough....I love Serviio....

[moltra]

you should not have to copy the files in multiple locations, just map each one via serviio. You can have multiple drives mapped for videos.

[zip]

Zip, is there an ETA for that open ticket?

It's been the for a long time and has very low priority, so not sure.

Just wanted to see if this was already fixed in 1.0.1 or if there is an estimate?

Zip, is there an ETA for that open ticket?

It's been the for a long time and has very low priority, so not sure.

[zip]

No, here's the ticket: https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... on-windows

I feel really bad to necro this thread, but I found it on accident and I tried to do the same thing in the past.

The solution I came up with was creating NTFS symbolic links using the "mklink"-command (Wiki).

I built myself a drag-n-drop batch-file to create links for movie folders, all I have to do is pick the folder i want to create a link for and drag it onto the batch-file and the link will be created in X:\_Media\_Movies\Links

Beware: This exact batch script will certainly not work for your folder structure, it's for reference only!

  Code:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

set ORIG=%1
set FOLDER=
set DEST="X:\_Media\_Movies\Links\"

FOR /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5 delims=\ " %%a in ("%ORIG%") DO (
   set FOLDER=%%e
)

echo mklink /D %DEST:~,-1%%FOLDER%" "%ORIG%"
echo.
mklink /D %DEST:~,-1%%FOLDER%" "%ORIG%"

pause