2024-05-03, 03:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-05-03, 03:51 AM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
Generally, all your media will be sorted alphabetically under any library. If you want to find something specific, you have to search alphabetically or by typing in the exact name of the title in the search bar.
Now to answer your question, it's different per client. As in, it's up to the client to determine how you can filter down what is shown from a library on your screen.
In the web GUI, when you go to a library, there will be an icon that looks like an upside-down triangle made out of three stripes. Opening that will show you all the filter options. There, you can select what you want to see and the options presented is pulled from the metadata associated with each file. You can filter to show titles with certain genre(s) or tags for example. Same for watched or unwatched status. I believe that there is work in the future to make these filter selections remain because they reset when you leave the library screen.
There has also been people that keep requesting the ability to search by genre or tags, but that's not currently possible. You're only allowed to search based off title name right now. I don't know if/when this will change. This means that right now, you will be presented with a large drop-down list of all the genre or tags that exist in a library when you want to filter. I'm assuming that with how you organize your library, you'll have a very large list of these, which means you'll have to do a lot of scrolling to find the right thing you want to filter by.
Generally, the idea behind Jellyfin's setup is that you open the library that you're interested in, then search for the specific thing you want to watch. So your guided to sort your media based on library type. So one library for movies, one for shows, one for cartoons, etc. You can always get more specific, like one for documentary movies, one for superhero movies, one for western, etc. The issue then is that your homepage will get cluttered with libraries, but it's usable. Also, you can't group multiple libraries into a collection.
Personally, I wish there was an option to randomize what is shown on a library when you open it. It would make browsing your library more fun/interesting.
Now to answer your question, it's different per client. As in, it's up to the client to determine how you can filter down what is shown from a library on your screen.
In the web GUI, when you go to a library, there will be an icon that looks like an upside-down triangle made out of three stripes. Opening that will show you all the filter options. There, you can select what you want to see and the options presented is pulled from the metadata associated with each file. You can filter to show titles with certain genre(s) or tags for example. Same for watched or unwatched status. I believe that there is work in the future to make these filter selections remain because they reset when you leave the library screen.
There has also been people that keep requesting the ability to search by genre or tags, but that's not currently possible. You're only allowed to search based off title name right now. I don't know if/when this will change. This means that right now, you will be presented with a large drop-down list of all the genre or tags that exist in a library when you want to filter. I'm assuming that with how you organize your library, you'll have a very large list of these, which means you'll have to do a lot of scrolling to find the right thing you want to filter by.
Generally, the idea behind Jellyfin's setup is that you open the library that you're interested in, then search for the specific thing you want to watch. So your guided to sort your media based on library type. So one library for movies, one for shows, one for cartoons, etc. You can always get more specific, like one for documentary movies, one for superhero movies, one for western, etc. The issue then is that your homepage will get cluttered with libraries, but it's usable. Also, you can't group multiple libraries into a collection.
Personally, I wish there was an option to randomize what is shown on a library when you open it. It would make browsing your library more fun/interesting.