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Mixed library question - sqwuade - 2024-09-13
Hi, I was wanting to know if it's possible to create a "Shows" type folder, where metadata and graphics are pulled from the net, within a "Home Videos and Photos" library?
I've got a collection of vids I call "Educational" with a lot of science, history and computer type vids in it that are non-standard shows (Mostly pulled from the net and not found in IMDb etc.). So Jellyfin didn't know what to do with some of them when I set it up as a "Shows" library and was naming stuff wrong (I had a show on the history of Japan I got via yt-dlp and Jellyfin called it "Japan Mom," which is, apparently, some kind of Japanese softcore vid) downloaded the incorrect art, description etc Lol. So I recreated that library and changed it to the "Home Videos and Photos" option instead of "Shows" and it's working better, but, there are some shows in there; mostly documentaries that I would like to get the album art and metadata for. Is it possible to have a "Shows" folder inside a "Home Videos and Photos" Library where the album art and metadata are downloaded for only certain directories or will have have to make a separate library for "Documentaries" or add that stuff under my current "TV Shows" library?
Thanks for any info!
RE: Mixed library question - TheDreadPirate - 2024-09-13
I think there are two options. I know of this plugin for downloading youtube metadata. You'd create a library and disable all other providers and make this plugin the top priority.
https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin
It hasn't been updated in a while so it's questionable if it still works with 10.9. There is one fork that has been updated recently that you could also try.
https://github.com/neBM/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin
If neither of those plugins works, what you could do is create a shows library and disable every Internet metadata provider. You should then have to create NFOs, perhaps borrow one from another show as a template, and manually edit the data. I've attached a few. I changed the extension to txt since nfo's aren't allowed to be attached, for some reason.
Code:
Shows
├── Documentary Name
│ ├── tvshow.nfo
│ ├── Season 01
│ │ ├── Documentary Name A S01E01.mkv
│ │ ├── Documentary Name A S01E01.nfo
│ │ ├── Documentary Name A S01E02.mkv
│ │ ├── Documentary Name A S01E02.nfo
│ │ └── season.nfoRE: Mixed library question - sqwuade - 2024-09-15
Thanks for the reply DreadPirate. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. It's not the end of the world having a directory structure based library but would be cool to use the metadata for the stuff that is applicable and has metadata available.