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Sorting of Movie Versions - tomthepom - 2024-09-04
The Jellyfin documentation states that if you have multiple versions of the same movie they will be sorted according to file names - except if resolution names are included. So in the following case;
Great Movie (1986)
├── Great Movie (1986) - 1. Director's Cut.mkv
├── Great Movie (1986) - 2. Theatrical.mkv
then the Director's Cut should come first in the dropdown selection. Except this doesn't happen if, for example, the Director's Cut is 720p and the Theatrical is in 1080p - the Theatrical edition comes first. It seems as if Jellyfin is sorting movies primarily according to the actual movie resolution - even if you don't include the resolution name in the filename - and only then by filenames.
Am I doing something wrong here? Is there any way to enforce my own ordering?
(Jellyfin v. 10.9.1 server, Media Player 1.11.1, both running on the same Windows machine)
Tom
RE: Sorting of Movie Versions - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-09-04
Just to make sure there's no confusion here in your example:
- The Director's Cut version is 720p?
- The Theatrical version is 1080p?
Also, try renaming the files by removing the number before their version names:
Great Movie (1986)
├── Great Movie (1986) - Director's Cut.mkv
├── Great Movie (1986) - Theatrical.mkv
Maybe doing so won't fix the issue, but it's worth a shot.
RE: Sorting of Movie Versions - theguymadmax - 2024-09-04
I’d recommend saving yourself the hassle with this issue. I’ve tried various naming schemes without success, and the highest resolution always ends up sorted first. I already have an open issue regarding this.
RE: Sorting of Movie Versions - tomthepom - 2024-09-04
(2024-09-04, 04:57 PM)Efficient_Good_5784 Wrote: Just to make sure there's no confusion here in your example:Yes
- The Director's Cut version is 720p?
- The Theatrical version is 1080p?
(2024-09-04, 04:57 PM)Efficient_Good_5784 Wrote: Also, try renaming the files by removing the number before their version names:
Great Movie (1986)
├── Great Movie (1986) - Director's Cut.mkv
├── Great Movie (1986) - Theatrical.mkv
Maybe doing so won't fix the issue, but it's worth a shot.
It doesn't. It should sort alphabetically but, again, the 1080p version always comes before the 720p.
RE: Sorting of Movie Versions - theguymadmax - 2024-09-04
That's the expected behavior in 10.9. Dev's are updating the docs to reflect this. New proposed wording:
### Order of Versions
Movie versions are sorted by the width of the resolution in a descending order. The resolution from the media info is used. Multiple items with the same resolution will be sorted alphabetically.
RE: Sorting of Movie Versions - tomthepom - 2024-09-05
(2024-09-04, 11:24 PM)theguymadmax Wrote: That's the expected behavior in 10.9.
That's... unfortunate. Is there any way to override this? It would be nice to be able to choose my own ordering of movie versions.
RE: Sorting of Movie Versions - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-09-05
(2024-09-05, 12:50 PM)tomthepom Wrote:The only way now would be to physically make sure both versions are of the same resolution.(2024-09-04, 11:24 PM)theguymadmax Wrote: That's the expected behavior in 10.9.
That's... unfortunate. Is there any way to override this? It would be nice to be able to choose my own ordering of movie versions.