(2025-12-15, 08:40 PM)rlue Wrote:

(2025-12-15, 01:07 PM)JF2025 Wrote: @Derfel The mixed libraries option is legacy and probably should come with a warning not to use.

There is a post from 4 years ago on Reddit r/jellyfin from a Jellyfin Team member saying: "Mixed libraries are basically never the right answer. It's really hard for the scanner to correctly identify a media type based on a folder name, and support for them in clients is frustrating at best. That library option is mostly there for legacy reasons."

They go on to say: "it was there when we forked, nobody has removed it yet, and if we remove it now a small subset of people will revolt."

I appreciate the clarification, but I would ask how users are supposed to handle niche / independent content which maybe you don't expect there to exist public metadata for at all, and which doesn't fit neatly into the existing categories? For instance, I have a collection of instructional VHS/DVD/YouTube content (and another collection of academic lectures) ripped to my library, where some of it is serial and some is one-off. I would really like to avoid creating two separate "How-To (Movies)" / "How-To (Series)" libraries.

I don't necessarily need Jellyfin to fetch metadata and cover art for me; are there existing library types that support this use case? I really do think that, at a minimum, this use case should be acknowledged in the docs and forums, even if only to say "We don't officially support a way of doing this yet." Surely, I can't be the only one who has a whole collections of obscure media types that you wouldn't expect to find on tmdb or omdb?

(also congratulations to the devs on another release; always very grateful for the free software 🙇🏻)

(2025-12-15, 03:04 PM)ototos Wrote: Of course you have to put in some effort to not fix a problem with TV series and symlinks.
Damn I've been having problems for months, at first the symlinks didn't work, then they were solved but in the meantime the TV Series library doesn't recognize the EPISODES.

I mean, you really have to be indifferent...
I understand that it's a free and volunteer project, but things can get overlooked.
Come on, why is it so difficult?

In the Movies & TV Shows library, TV shows are recognized, seasons are recognized, and episodes are recognized too.

On the TV Series library, however, no, TV series are recognized, seasons are recognized, but episodes are not.

PLEASE, CAN YOU FIND TIME FOR THIS PROBLEM?
THANK YOU!!!

(2025-12-16, 12:39 PM)ngiann Wrote: Hello,
I still have the same problem as in 10.11.4 :

Cannot install in Windows 11 Pro **clean Install** because Smart App Control is blocking the jellyfin .exe installer.

You can't reproduce this in Windows 11 installations that was upgraded from previous versions that are considered "dirty" and the Smart App Control is not enabled.

It is enabled only in clean - reseted Windows 11 installations, so i can't install jellyfin server.

In 10.11.3 version all Ok - i can install.

You must send feedback along with a copy of the app in order for MS to confirm who wrote the app.

See screenshot

(2025-12-17, 04:41 AM)esjaysee Wrote:

(2025-12-15, 03:04 PM)ototos Wrote: Of course you have to put in some effort to not fix a problem with TV series and symlinks.
Damn I've been having problems for months, at first the symlinks didn't work, then they were solved but in the meantime the TV Series library doesn't recognize the EPISODES.

I mean, you really have to be indifferent...
I understand that it's a free and volunteer project, but things can get overlooked.
Come on, why is it so difficult?

In the Movies & TV Shows library, TV shows are recognized, seasons are recognized, and episodes are recognized too.

On the TV Series library, however, no, TV series are recognized, seasons are recognized, but episodes are not.

PLEASE, CAN YOU FIND TIME FOR THIS PROBLEM?
THANK YOU!!!

Why do you need to use symlinks?  Can you not just map the drive?

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(2025-12-16, 12:39 PM)ngiann Wrote: Hello,
I still have the same problem as in 10.11.4 :

Cannot install in Windows 11 Pro **clean Install** because Smart App Control is blocking the jellyfin .exe installer.

You can't reproduce this in Windows 11 installations that was upgraded from previous versions that are considered "dirty" and the Smart App Control is not enabled.

It is enabled only in clean - reseted Windows 11 installations, so i can't install jellyfin server.

In 10.11.3 version all Ok - i can install.

You must send feedback along with a copy of the app in order for MS to confirm who wrote the app.

See screenshot

Right click, run as admin?

(2025-12-16, 01:05 PM)luckless Wrote:

(2025-12-15, 08:40 PM)rlue Wrote:

(2025-12-15, 01:07 PM)JF2025 Wrote: @Derfel The mixed libraries option is legacy and probably should come with a warning not to use.

There is a post from 4 years ago on Reddit r/jellyfin from a Jellyfin Team member saying: "Mixed libraries are basically never the right answer. It's really hard for the scanner to correctly identify a media type based on a folder name, and support for them in clients is frustrating at best. That library option is mostly there for legacy reasons."

They go on to say: "it was there when we forked, nobody has removed it yet, and if we remove it now a small subset of people will revolt."

I appreciate the clarification, but I would ask how users are supposed to handle niche / independent content which maybe you don't expect there to exist public metadata for at all, and which doesn't fit neatly into the existing categories? For instance, I have a collection of instructional VHS/DVD/YouTube content (and another collection of academic lectures) ripped to my library, where some of it is serial and some is one-off. I would really like to avoid creating two separate "How-To (Movies)" / "How-To (Series)" libraries.

I don't necessarily need Jellyfin to fetch metadata and cover art for me; are there existing library types that support this use case? I really do think that, at a minimum, this use case should be acknowledged in the docs and forums, even if only to say "We don't officially support a way of doing this yet." Surely, I can't be the only one who has a whole collections of obscure media types that you wouldn't expect to find on tmdb or omdb?

(also congratulations to the devs on another release; always very grateful for the free software 🙇🏻)

There is "home videos and photos" library type which I use for a use case similar to yours.

(2025-12-17, 09:00 PM)lolish Wrote: Im running windows server on ryzen 5600g 
32gb ram and 36 TB disk allmost full of stuffs everything works great super smooth. if you experiance slowdowns i think you did something wrong.