Rather than manually or periodically letting tasks run from Scheduled Tasks, is there a way to run tasks when I start playing a file? For instance, if I start playing an episode of a show I'd like to at least have jellyfin check for matching subtitles and scan it for intro-skipper audio fingerprints.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You could write a s script which follows jellyfin logs line for line and greps/seds/awks for a keyword corresponding to starting playback. Then you could extract the file path.

It's also likely that it's possible to start your specific scheduled task by API like the following [1].

[1] https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/discussions/12224

PS: I don't know whether it's possible to run a scheduled task for a specific file only. But I've already written the above anyway.