4 hours ago
Hello!
First, let me say, I'm really excited by Jellyfin, and it's been a really nice experience so far.
I personally have a moderately large collection of serials. Serials are not like regular movies, but they do tend to have regularities that could make it easier to search and sort meta data. Specifically:
- serials always have a series title, for instance:
- Flash Gordon
- Buck Rogers
- King of the Rocketmen
- serials always have a release order, much like tv episodes
- serials always have a unique title per episode, again, much like tv episodes
- serials can be found in IMDB:
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041547
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032290
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027623
I have shoehorned serials into TV shows, and that's not a bad fit, but the ability to search for metadata isn't a great fit. I have also tried fitting serials in movies, and then moving them manually into a collection, also kind of a tedious process.
What I'd like to suggest is a new structured media type. Unsurprisingly, I would call it "Serials".
Disk structure might look like this:
Serials
<Serial title>
<01 episode title>
<02 episode title>
etc.
Serial title can be pull data from IMDB for metadata for the internal episodes. That includes directors, writers, actors, genre, etc.
Display order would pull from the filename, as would episode title.
I recognize this is sort of a lot to ask for a niche genre, but _I_ would find it very useful.
If it's not appropriate for direct support within Jellyfin, perhaps it could be accomplished using a plugin? I would love to help with Jellyfin, however my C# is, well, nearly non-existent. My personal areas of expertise are C++, swift and rust.
What do you think? Would this be something that Jellyfin devs might consider?
First, let me say, I'm really excited by Jellyfin, and it's been a really nice experience so far.
I personally have a moderately large collection of serials. Serials are not like regular movies, but they do tend to have regularities that could make it easier to search and sort meta data. Specifically:
- serials always have a series title, for instance:
- Flash Gordon
- Buck Rogers
- King of the Rocketmen
- serials always have a release order, much like tv episodes
- serials always have a unique title per episode, again, much like tv episodes
- serials can be found in IMDB:
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041547
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032290
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027623
I have shoehorned serials into TV shows, and that's not a bad fit, but the ability to search for metadata isn't a great fit. I have also tried fitting serials in movies, and then moving them manually into a collection, also kind of a tedious process.
What I'd like to suggest is a new structured media type. Unsurprisingly, I would call it "Serials".
Disk structure might look like this:
Serials
<Serial title>
<01 episode title>
<02 episode title>
etc.
Serial title can be pull data from IMDB for metadata for the internal episodes. That includes directors, writers, actors, genre, etc.
Display order would pull from the filename, as would episode title.
I recognize this is sort of a lot to ask for a niche genre, but _I_ would find it very useful.
If it's not appropriate for direct support within Jellyfin, perhaps it could be accomplished using a plugin? I would love to help with Jellyfin, however my C# is, well, nearly non-existent. My personal areas of expertise are C++, swift and rust.
What do you think? Would this be something that Jellyfin devs might consider?