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Setting up Jellyfin - CoolJZero - 2024-02-12
Hello everyone I am looking for help on understanding how jellyfin reads files and understands directory structure. Im having issue with it gaining metadata and reading my folders. Now i know after a few searches that folders that have seasons in them should be labeled as such "Season 01, Season 02 " And so on as well as the files being labeled as "S01E01, S02E01" that portion I understand but when it comes to retrieving metadata nothing happens and it seems i would have to do this manual which i have tried an failed at, now the meat of the problem which might be how i organized my folders were the Structure goes like so "(Drive Name ) Jellyfin:Movies/Name of movie" "Jellyfin:T.V Shows/Anime/Season 01/S01E01" If the show has a season its labeled as such if not it would just be the show with the episodes inside that folder and I have two more folders in that T.v Shows Folder which is Adult and Cartoons. Now is my folder structure or labeling causing some sort of conflict which jellyfin is not understanding or am i just doing something wrong here.
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-02-12
Is all of your media not getting metadata? Or is it getting the wrong metadata?
Also for shows, if you have a show with only one season, I would still give it a season folder. Jellyfin doesn't show you all the episodes without the episodes being in a season folder.
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - tmsrxzar - 2024-02-12
shows naming should match https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows
Parent added to jellyfin should be shows
inside the shows folder you should have a folder name of the show title itself
season folders are optional and i find they don't add anything for scraping, all mine are flat with all the episodes in the 1 main folder
flat will prevent extras from being added though so if you have trailers and whatnot then flat is not the way to go
if you're using this with Anime you might find that the TMDB scraper is the problem and you should try switching to TVDB
as i understand it tvdb is more friendly to Anime
either case you should search your show on the site you are using and check naming against what they have listed
https://www.themoviedb.org
https://thetvdb.com
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - CoolJZero - 2024-02-12
(2024-02-12, 10:31 PM)Efficient_Good_5784 Wrote: Is all of your media not getting metadata? Or is it getting the wrong metadata?
Also for shows, if you have a show with only one season, I would still give it a season folder. Jellyfin doesn't show you all the episodes without the episodes being in a season folder.
Its Kinda both really, it got the wrong metadata from when i first time made the folder and when i try to get the metadata from all the subfolders, so when i go to get metadata it says queed up but nothing helps after that.
(2024-02-12, 10:31 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: shows naming should match https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows
Parent added to jellyfin should be shows
inside the shows folder you should have a folder name of the show title itself
season folders are optional and i find they don't add anything for scraping, all mine are flat with all the episodes in the 1 main folder
flat will prevent extras from being added though so if you have trailers and whatnot then flat is not the way to go
if you're using this with Anime you might find that the TMDB scraper is the problem and you should try switching to TVDB
as i understand it tvdb is more friendly to Anime
either case you should search your show on the site you are using and check naming against what they have listed
https://www.themoviedb.org
https://thetvdb.com
Does the file name matter at all or can it work with just the show name and S01E01 in the folder and work off of that, or can it work off of S01E01 and the episode name. I also like to devide the shows between live action and anime just for my sake but are you suggesting that my issue could be that I cant have Anime,Adult,and Cartoon under a folder named T.V shows or do i need the change the folder name to Shows.
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - paulc - 2024-02-12
This really is a good resource:
TV shows: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/
Each show needs its own parent folder that its seasons are under.
I try to put my TV shows in separate folders by category and each category is a different library. I do "Series Name.S01E01.Episode Title" for the actual naming.
Anime
├── Series Name A
│ ├── Season 01
│ │ ├── Series Name A.S01E01-E02.Episode Title.mkv
│ │ ├── Series Name A.S01E03.Episode Title.mkv
│ │ └── Series Name A.S01E04.Episode Title.mkv
│ └── Season 02
│ ├── Series Name A.S02E01.Episode Title.mkv
│ ├── Series Name A.S02E02.Episode Title.mkv
│ ├── Series Name A.S02E03.Episode Title.mkv .mkv
└── Series Name B
├── Series Name B S01E01.mkv
├── Series Name B S01E02.mkv
├── Series Name B S02E01-E02.mkv
└── Series Name B S02E03.mkv
Classic TV
├── Series Name A
│ ├── Season 01
│ │ ├── Series Name A S01E01-E02.mkv
│ │ ├── Series Name A S01E03.mkv
│ │ └── Series Name A S01E04.mkv
│ └── Season 02
│ ├── Series Name A S02E01.mkv
│ ├── Series Name A S02E02.mkv
│ ├── Series Name A S02E03 Part 1.mkv
│ └── Series Name A S02E03 Part 2.mkv
└── Series Name B
├── Series Name B S01E01.mkv
├── Series Name B S01E02.mkv
├── Series Name B S02E01-E02.mkv
└── Series Name B S02E03.mkv
Sitcoms
├── Series Name A
│ ├── Season 01
│ │ ├── Series Name A S01E01-E02.mkv
│ │ ├── Series Name A S01E03.mkv
│ │ └── Series Name A S01E04.mkv
│ └── Season 02
│ ├── Series Name A S02E01.mkv
│ ├── Series Name A S02E02.mkv
│ ├── Series Name A S02E03 Part 1.mkv
│ └── Series Name A S02E03 Part 2.mkv
└── Series Name B
├── Series Name B S01E01.mkv
├── Series Name B S01E02.mkv
├── Series Name B S02E01-E02.mkv
└── Series Name B S02E03.mkv
Info about movies
Movies: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/
It's best to put movies under their own parent folder, too.
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - duckrental - 2024-02-12
(2024-02-12, 11:01 PM)CoolJZero Wrote: Does the file name matter at all or can it work with just the show name and S01E01 in the folder and work off of that, or can it work off of S01E01 and the episode name.
As long as SxxEyy is in the file name somewhere it usually does a pretty good job of picking it out. I have mine named in various formats like "S01E01", "Series Name S01E01", "Series Name S01E01 - Episode Name", "Alternate Series Name S01E01", and more, and all of them work fine.
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - tmsrxzar - 2024-02-12
(2024-02-12, 11:01 PM)CoolJZero Wrote: Does the file name matter at all or can it work with just the show name and S01E01 in the folder and work off of that, or can it work off of S01E01 and the episode name. I also like to devide the shows between live action and anime just for my sake but are you suggesting that my issue could be that I cant have Anime,Adult,and Cartoon under a folder named T.V shows or do i need the change the folder name to Shows.
yes, filename matters very much, it needs to be tvshows/Show Name/Season 01/S01E01*.mkv
you might have luck with it ignoring other information in the filename but it is specifically looking for the SXXEXX pattern
episode "names" are not considered at all, to the scraper it's just garbage text that gets stripped away
the TV Shows folder needs to contain only "Show Name" folders, "TVShows/Action/Show Name" will cause errors
if you would like to divide these up on the disk that is fine but you need to add each Parent folder to a library entry, Parent folders containing only Show Name
for that you would have your disk
TV Shows/Show Name
TV Shows (Anime)/Show Name
TV Shows (Adults)/Show Name
then in the library entry add each TV Shows "Parent", TV Shows, TV Shows (Anime), TV Shows (Adults)
jellyfin will display everything no differently this is just to satisfy the scraper
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-02-12
(2024-02-12, 11:01 PM)CoolJZero Wrote: I also like to devide the shows between live action and anime just for my sake but are you suggesting that my issue could be that I cant have Anime,Adult,and Cartoon under a folder named T.V shows or do i need the change the folder name to Shows.
@tmsrxzar is stating that you should switch up the metadata provider for anime.
Most people have a separate library just for anime and anime movies since both usually require different metadata sources to get the correct metadata. If you mix anime with other types of shows, one or the other type of media will get the wrong metadata.
I would separate the anime shows and make a separate library for those. Then I would add the "AniDB" & "Anilist" plugins to the server so that you can add both to the anime library as the top 2 sources to pull metadata from.
I also find TMDB to be a good source of anime metadata.
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - CoolJZero - 2024-02-13
![[Image: RXjH7jb]](https://imgur.com/RXjH7jb)
Attached is how my T.V Shows folder is setup and assistance would be appreciated, I feel like since it was simple jellyfin wouldn't have any issues with it, but guess i was wrong
RE: Setting up Jellyfin - duckrental - 2024-02-13
You can't have another "layer" between the folder the library is watching and the individual series folders. If you really want everything in one library but you want to keep the folders set up like this, you'll need to add the "Adult", "Anime", and "Cartoon" folders to your library separately, rather than just adding the "TV Shows" folder.