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mixing versions and parts - Dewey Hylton - 2025-12-07
I am having difficulty finding the proper naming convention for movies, when i have multiple versions and some of those versions have multiple parts. I have tried several variations of what I found in the docs, and have tried variations of what has been suggested by AI, which suggested moving the files to subdirectories named "Extended" and "Theatrical" but that did not work either ... here is the example I am currently working on:
Code:
The Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)/The Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Extended 4k-part2.mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)/The Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Extended 4k-part1.mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)/The Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Theatrical 4k.mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003)/The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - [Extended] [4k]-part1.mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003)/The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - [Extended] [4k]-part2.mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003)/The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (2003) - [Theatrical] [4k].mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (2002)/The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (2002) - 4k - Extended.part2.mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (2002)/The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (2002) - 4k - Extended.part1.mp4
The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (2002)/The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (2002) - 4k - Theatrical.mp4Using these examples, viewing in web client ... all 3 titles show a 2 on the movie icon (2 versions?) but when opening the title it does not show versions. It does show "additional parts" below, which matches part2.
I moved Towers.part2 out of the way and rescanned. Towers now shows 2 versions in a drop-down:
4k - Theatrical
4k - Extended.part1
The rest of my titles are all using the same convention as Towers, but I don't have any others with multiple parts. Some of the others have 4k, HD, and SD versions though - and all of those properly show in the drop-down menu.
Where am I going wrong here? Is there a proper way to arrange/name the files so that in this case the versions dropdown would list Theatrical and Extended, and that jellyfin would still recognize that Extended had 2 parts?
FWIW, I'm currently running 10.11.4.
Clients in use are the web client, roku jellyfin app, and ios jellyfin app.
RE: mixing versions and parts - theguymadmax - 2025-12-08
Version and parts do not work together: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies#multiple-parts "This does not work with multiple versions or merging."