2025-03-27, 05:14 PM
Dear Staff,
The situation seems to worsen every year. Whenever I attempt to switch to Jellyfin, I face insurmountable difficulties, particularly with identification issues.
This applies to TV shows, but it’s even worse with movies. For users like me with large libraries, reorganizing folder structures is out of the question. Jellyfin must achieve at least 99% compatibility with Plex or, ideally, surpass its efficiency.
The attached screenshots demonstrate how Jellyfin fails to merge content into a single entry when folders span multiple drives. With Naruto, for instance, it created a mess of duplicates despite identical files. It lacks intelligence: if episode 1x01 already exists, why create another? It should automatically recognize it as part of the same series.
A native solution is urgent—without relying on broken third-party tools like MergeVersions. Jellyfin must handle these cases flawlessly.
Unfortunately, for the fourth year in a row, I’m forced to abandon Jellyfin. Restructuring over 100TB of media (2000+ TV series and 4000+ movies) is simply impossible.
Moreover, as highlighted across various Discord and Telegram chats, as well as in Reddit threads and forum posts here, many of us are experiencing this issue - which could be fixed with a relatively straightforward solution. Please make this a priority!
I hope you’ll address this. Thank you.
The situation seems to worsen every year. Whenever I attempt to switch to Jellyfin, I face insurmountable difficulties, particularly with identification issues.
This applies to TV shows, but it’s even worse with movies. For users like me with large libraries, reorganizing folder structures is out of the question. Jellyfin must achieve at least 99% compatibility with Plex or, ideally, surpass its efficiency.
The attached screenshots demonstrate how Jellyfin fails to merge content into a single entry when folders span multiple drives. With Naruto, for instance, it created a mess of duplicates despite identical files. It lacks intelligence: if episode 1x01 already exists, why create another? It should automatically recognize it as part of the same series.
A native solution is urgent—without relying on broken third-party tools like MergeVersions. Jellyfin must handle these cases flawlessly.
Unfortunately, for the fourth year in a row, I’m forced to abandon Jellyfin. Restructuring over 100TB of media (2000+ TV series and 4000+ movies) is simply impossible.
Moreover, as highlighted across various Discord and Telegram chats, as well as in Reddit threads and forum posts here, many of us are experiencing this issue - which could be fixed with a relatively straightforward solution. Please make this a priority!
I hope you’ll address this. Thank you.