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+--- Thread: Can l organize custom shows by month? (/t-can-l-organize-custom-shows-by-month)
Can l organize custom shows by month? - Phrenemy - 2023-10-02
I'm new to Jellyfin.
I have a news show on my server which publishes new material almost daily.
I am following the naming scheme of <NAME> yyyy-mm-dd <TITLE> <pixel height>.<ext>
Is there a way to have this show seasonally organized in Jellyfin by month instead of year or some other methodology in Jellyfin which would allow me to have less than 200+ files to go through per season?
Perhaps there's a "news agent" or some kind of mod which organizes Jellyfin libraries by month? (Sorry if "agent" is not understood, I'm used to using a different media server.)
thank you
RE: Can l organize custom shows by month? - bitmap - 2023-10-04
How do you get metadata for this show? That's where the crux of the issue is. Because yes, you could easily organize it manually to be this way, however, automation would be preferable. If you're pulling from a DB, however they have it organized is how you're going to see info pulled into eps on the server. Folder organization plays into it as well, as you could try just throwing things into the folder structure you want manually, seeing what happens with a metadata refresh, and figuring out the automation later.
As for organization -- Jellyfin takes what you have on your disk and serves it without modification, so no, it won't organize it for you. You would need to find a different tool to do this (Servarr, TinyMediaManager, ytdl-sub for YouTube, etc...).
RE: Can l organize custom shows by month? - Dex Luther - 2023-10-04
Following Bitmaps suggestion, you can try turning off the pulling of metadata (or limit it to just pulling images), but you'd have to create a new separate library for that show or have everything else in the library also affected, and then sort the files into folders as you wish. Since pulling metadata from any DB would be disabled for that library, Jellyfin might rely more/only on the folder structure and folder names. The trade-off would be that you probably won't get episode titles and descriptions, and the fetching of images might not work at all (it wouldn't 'know' what images to fetch).