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Jellyfin doesn't even work quite right if you try to follow their documentation to the letter in how to structure and name your directories. I hope they improve

by Sakos 2y ago

Jellyfin doesn't even work quite right if you try to follow their documentation to the letter in how to structure and name your directories. I hope they improve that aspect, because it can be time consuming and irritating to fix when it doesn't work right. It largely works though.

Hamuko 2y ago
Does Jellyfin allow using external metadata agents and scanners like Plex? I basically couldn't use Plex at all if I didn't have HAMA and ASS installed for scanning anime files.
- Sakos 2y ago
  It has plugins for other metadata providers like anidb, anilist and anisearch. I've had no issues identifying all the anime I have.
  - Hamuko 2y ago
    So if you give it "[GroupName] Name of the Series - Electric Boogaloo - 03 (1080p).mkv", it understands that it's season one, episode one of a show called "Name of the Series - Electric Boogaloo"? Because Plex in its default state would rather you using the Name.of.the.Series.Electric.Boogaloo.S01E03 formatting, which would entail renaming basically everything. That's why having ASS as the scanner to avoid renaming is essential for me.
    - Sakos 2y ago
      I'm not certain about that specific example. I think it should work if it's, say, a single season show. Otherwise if you put it under Show\Season 1\, I think it should work too. I have a range of different naming schemes and Jellyfin is able to recognize all of them. I've only had to put in manual effort for extras like interviews and trailers, which can be put in an "extras" folder in a show/movie directory next to the actual video file(s).
- defrost 2y ago
  Yes, you set Jellyfin to use local .NFO or .INFO files .. these can be created by third party agents ( eg: ember https://github.com/DanCooper/Ember-MM-Newscraper https://github.com/DanCooper/Ember-MM-Newscraper , etc ) Jellyfin will alter those to add paths to media it downloads and perhaps overwrite curated descriptions with those from theTVDB, IMDB, theMovieDB, etc. YMMV test in isolation to be sure, etc.
  - Hamuko 2y ago
    That's not really the same thing though. With Plex, you can customise the code it runs to scan the filenames and you don't need to create any additional files.
    - defrost 2y ago
      There are multiple approaches to curating metadata. Maintaining .nfo masters | backups is handy when migrating between media managers or finetuning descriptions not in line with online data DB's.

by Sakos 2y ago

Hamuko 2y ago

Does Jellyfin allow using external metadata agents and scanners like Plex? I basically couldn't use Plex at all if I didn't have HAMA and ASS installed for scanning anime files.

Sakos 2y ago
It has plugins for other metadata providers like anidb, anilist and anisearch. I've had no issues identifying all the anime I have.
- Hamuko 2y ago
  So if you give it "[GroupName] Name of the Series - Electric Boogaloo - 03 (1080p).mkv", it understands that it's season one, episode one of a show called "Name of the Series - Electric Boogaloo"? Because Plex in its default state would rather you using the Name.of.the.Series.Electric.Boogaloo.S01E03 formatting, which would entail renaming basically everything. That's why having ASS as the scanner to avoid renaming is essential for me.
  - Sakos 2y ago
    I'm not certain about that specific example. I think it should work if it's, say, a single season show. Otherwise if you put it under Show\Season 1\, I think it should work too. I have a range of different naming schemes and Jellyfin is able to recognize all of them. I've only had to put in manual effort for extras like interviews and trailers, which can be put in an "extras" folder in a show/movie directory next to the actual video file(s).
defrost 2y ago
Yes, you set Jellyfin to use local .NFO or .INFO files .. these can be created by third party agents ( eg: ember https://github.com/DanCooper/Ember-MM-Newscraper https://github.com/DanCooper/Ember-MM-Newscraper , etc ) Jellyfin will alter those to add paths to media it downloads and perhaps overwrite curated descriptions with those from theTVDB, IMDB, theMovieDB, etc. YMMV test in isolation to be sure, etc.
- Hamuko 2y ago
  That's not really the same thing though. With Plex, you can customise the code it runs to scan the filenames and you don't need to create any additional files.
  - defrost 2y ago
    There are multiple approaches to curating metadata. Maintaining .nfo masters | backups is handy when migrating between media managers or finetuning descriptions not in line with online data DB's.