Libraries - Movies vs Shows

[enesha]

Hey there,

Ok thats a lot to unpack.
The difference between Movies and Series is twofold, first the internal parser expects series to named in a totally different way then movies and second jellyfin uses totally different metadata providers for either. That is the reason why if you throw series style media into a movies library, they get ignored as they dont match the expected naming scheme nor have any metadata.

Mixed Libraries are a mess and we generally do not recommend using them. Just ignore their existence.

Also just to clarify things a but, do you access your media via a network share? because if so, the real time file notification system will not work and you have to use something like AutoScan

Hey thanks for the reply.  I realize there's a lot to unpack there lol.  That's why i was waiting for later for other questions heh.

     So I hadn't considered the naming convention.  Of course Series and Movies are dealt with differently.  When I was trying to add Peanuts, there would be no season etc to put into the directory structure.  So it sounds like those special sort of things should just be considered movies for this purpose.  I think what really confused me was that the items didn't appear at all, rather than just unmatched, but you obviously make total sense - and I should have thought of it, seems obvious now.  I can color inside the lines when I actually realize where the lines are, lol

Yes, the mixed library experiment...did not go well.  I can see why it's going to die.

     So as for the scan, no I am not mounting over the network, that just seems like a general bad idea to me.  Even gig speed seems like it would start to get clogged up at some point. But YMMV  All of my drives are multi terabyte ext4.  I briefly experimented with mounting noatime, but was not satisfied with things, so everything is back to the default relatime.  So that's not related to the SouthPark situation, I don't think.  However it's interesting that you mentioned it, as I have noticed that the real time notification doesn't seem to be working quite right.  When I add now, it seems that if I don't run a library scan right away it could be several minutes before things show up.  Didn't used to be that way, but I haven't had time to really dig into it.  That's one of the other things I was going to start asking about heh

Thanks again