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question: How hard is it to get jellyfin to just present me a random video from my library that it cannot scrape metadata for? This has always been the stick

question: How hard is it to get jellyfin to just present me a random video from my library that it cannot scrape metadata for? This has always been the sticking point to me for software like this that tries to make things "easy". I realize plex has (or had) a way to label folders as containing home videos, etc, but I vaguely recall problems with it. I'd much rather see the text "foo.mp4" for a video w/o metatada than have the server just hide the video.

jsf01 3y ago
For videos it can’t find metadata for, Jellyfin will either display only the title (if you set the library type to “movies”), or it will extract a random frame from within the video to use as the image (if you set the library type to “home videos”). In both cases, the video isn’t going to be hidden.