I really hate that Jellyfin cannot work with folders and subfolders

[jellyfin]

@TheDreadPirate and @RostigerSpieler

Thanks for your replies, but I know all of this - I read of the recommendations for names files from movies and shows!

I just wanted to complain about how Jellyfin works :-)

I mean, MOST people rip their stuff with makemkv.

And therefor MOST people have their stuff looking like this, after moving all extras into an EXTRAS sub-folder:

VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/C1_t01.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/C1_t02.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/C1_t03.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/C1_t04.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/C1_t05.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/EXTRAS/A1_t01.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/EXTRAS/A2_t02.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC1/EXTRAS/A3_t03.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC2/B2_t01.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC2/B2_t02.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC2/B2_t03.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC2/B2_t04.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC2/B2_t05.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC2/EXTRAS/A1_t01.mkv
VAMPIRE_DIARIES/SEASON_01_DISC2/EXTRAS/B1_t02.mkv

And this structure is IMPORTANT, IMHO!

If there is a problem with a file or you are missing something, you can easily pull our the right DVD, rip it again and - just be finished!

But the way Jellyfin works, all of this get's incredible complicated!
You need to rename all files, sort them outside their DVD-folder and loose this context!

For EXTRAs it is even worse, here you cannot have a way to watch the extras that belong to a DVD in this context, not even with a trick (I opened another thread about this, as I had hope for a hidded trick).

And it seems, it should be totally easy for Jellyfin to determine the right mapping automatically!

The name of the show is clear, the number of the season is clear, the number if the disk is clear and also the number of the episode.
And that is true for ANY show I ever ripped!

So WHY can Jellyfin not handle this?!?

It makes soooooo many problems for countless people - and also, the renaming is really complicated and takes lots of time.
If you speed-rip lots and lots of shows, that amounts to a real problem.

That is what I wanted to complain about :-)
No need to reply, I posted just with the hope that someone how is developing Jellyfin may read this and think about adding a more sensible way to handle shows (and partly movies).


But of course, the most important missing feature is: Changing paths to libraries without loosing metadata.
That REALLY should be fixed soon!

Many thanks!