Movies not showing up in library

[tmsrxzar]

i couldn't begin to tell you how to setup the nas side of things, im strictly a linux cli guy/no fancy buttons

but

in this screenshot you posted https://imgur.com/yr2SZov where it says folders, that path should be /Volume1/public/Audiobooks for 1 entry and /Volume1/public/Movies for another in order for the libraries to function properly

if you cannot select each subfolder then there is something messed up with the configuration of jellyfin, if it's in docker then the paths need to be passed to docker

[cromswrath]

I just keep changing them back and forth to post images proving that I've set them up in every possible folder/subfolder combination. I appreciate all the help, but I feel like we're just going in circles. When this began Jellyin Audiobooks was pointing to just /public and was working with audiobook files loose in NAS /public/Audibooks without subfolders....

I just changed it to /public/Audiobooks and it stopped worked. To make it work again I added a subfolder on NAS public/Audiobooks/Drenai_Saga and then it found it. So basically, it seemed like Jellyfin needed to be pointed one folder level higher than wherever the actual files are located, whether they are loose or have subfolders, either way.

I re-re-re-remade the Movies library on Jellyfin pointing back to /public/Movies and the movies showed up, but also had an extra phantom "MOVIES" movie that didn't exist. It was reading that extra folder as a file now. Which allowed me to just delete the "media" and now I don't have the extra folder problem.

So it's fixed. And I have no idea how the problem started or really how it got fixed. Whole thing is "wonky" AF, but thanks for your help.

[tmsrxzar]

I just changed it to /public/Audiobooks and it stopped worked.  To make it work again I added a subfolder on NAS public/Audiobooks/Drenai_Saga and then it found it.

yes it appears books need to be in subfolders according to the documentation

Books
├── Audiobooks
│  ├── Author
│  │  ├── Book1.flac
│  │  └── Book2.flac
│  └── Book
│      ├── Chapter1.flac
│      └── Chapter2.flac
└── Books
    └── Author
        ├── Book1.epub
        ├── Book2.epub
        ├── Book
        │  ├── Book1.epub
        │  ├── cover.ext
        │  └── metadata.opf
        └── Book3.mp3

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/books


glad you got it sorted

[cromswrath]

I just changed it to /public/Audiobooks and it stopped worked.  To make it work again I added a subfolder on NAS public/Audiobooks/Drenai_Saga and then it found it.

yes it appears books need to be in subfolders according to the documentation

If that were the case, then I wouldn't have been able to use the audiobooks this entire time without them.  
Regardless, having finally gotten access to the videos....none of them will play.  They will play on my computer via a media player and they will play on my TV just with a USB drive or external hard drive, but none of them will play on the exact same hardware passing through Jellyfin.  

I think that's enough for me today.  I'll revisit this sometime in the future or look for alternatives.

[tmsrxzar]

I think that's enough for me today.  I'll revisit this sometime in the future or look for alternatives.

sounds good, talk to you then